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• narrante – narratingly
• naturale or nat. – natural; i.e., discontinue a special effect, such as col legno, sul tasto, sul ponticello, or playing in harmonics
• N.C. – No chord, written in the chord row of music notation to show there is no chord being played, and no implied harmony.
• Nebenstimme (Ger) – under part; i.e., a secondary contrapuntal part, always occurring simultaneously with, and subsidiary to, the Hauptstimme
• nicht (Ger) – not
• niente – "nothing", barely audible, dying away
• nobile or nobilmente – in a noble fashion
• nocturne - A piece written for the night
• notes inégales (Fr) – unequal notes; i.e., a principally Baroque performance practice of applying long-short rhythms to pairs of notes written as equal