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• ignore changes - a jazz term used in 1950s and 1960s-era avant-garde and free jazz (e.g., Ornette Coleman) which instructs a soloist to improvise without following the chord changes being used by the rhythm section instruments.
• immer (Ger) – always
• imperioso – imperiously
• impetuoso – impetuously
• improvisando – with improvisation
• improvisato – improvised, or as if improvised
• in altissimo – in the highest; i.e., play or sing an octave higher
• incalzando – getting faster and louder
• insistendo – insistently, deliberate
• in modo di – in the art of, in the style of
• intimo – intimately
• intro - opening section
• irato – angrily