About the theme

Music Notation is the vocabulary you'd use to talk about a score — forte, piano, allegro, adagio, crescendo, staccato, legato, fermata, andante, vivace, sforzando, cantabile. Heavy on the Italian terms because Western music notation runs on Italian conventions. The eight-letter-and-up entries (crescendo, staccato, sforzando, cantabile, maestoso) lean foreign-sounding, which makes them oddly easier to spot in an English filler — your eye lights on a maestoso the way it lights on a Q.