tacet.

Learned something new today.



Tacet - is Latin for "it is silent". It is a musical term to indicate that an instrument does not play for a long period of time, typically an entire movement. It was common for early symphonies to leave out the brass or percussion in certain movements, especially slow (second) movements, and this is the instruction given in the parts for the player to wait until the end of the movement.

Tacet Sheets - It is a good idea to put a "tacet sheet" in the folders of musicians for tunes they don't play on. For example, if you do a tune with no trumpet or trombone, but the sax plays, put a sheet that has the title of the song and the word "Tacet" on it. That way, the trumpet and trombone know they aren't missing a chart for that particular song.

And all this time I thought it was....
"you don't play this one, you suck"!