What is my favorite musical term in any language? Oh my–that is an incredibly difficult question! Thanks to writer, translator, and musician Kate Mueser for forcing me to pick some of my favorites for an interview in her Substack newsletter, Offbeat. (Honestly, I love so, so many of the lilting Italian descriptions are part of the musical lexicon.) Check out this interview with Kate Mueser, the author of The Girl with Twenty Fingers, another wonderful book from Blackwater Press that has risen to the top of my own TBR list.