How to Read Mood Markings on Sheet Music

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk with you about mood marking. One thing to be aware of as you’re reading music is markings for mood, basically how you should interpret the music. Here for example is a common mood marking Dolce which is Italian for sweetly, another example here Poco Animato a little more animation and down here Molto Espressivo which let’s you know to play expressively. These are just a few examples of mood markings but there are nearly an exhaustible number of different mood markings in several different languages, so it’s best to have a music dictionary to be ready to interpret any mood marking that you may encounter and that’s how you know what mood you should play with."