facile - light, easy.
familiar style - chordal style in polyphonic music.
fantasia - a movement free in spirit and form, rather like an improvisation.
fantastico - whimsical.
fastoso - proudly, stately.
fauxbordon - parallel first inversion chords in 15th-century music.
ferma - resolute, steady.
fermata - a pause or hold. 
fermato - firmly, resolutely.
feroce - fierce.
fervente - ardent.
fervido - vehement.
festivo/festoso - merry, gay.
fiacco - feeble, weak.
fieramente - boldly.
figuration - recurrent melodic pattern.
figured bass - use of numerals and other signs accompanying the notes of a bass part to indicate harmony to be filled in on a keyboard instrument; used in the Baroque.
final - the concluding tone in a plainsong; the tonic.
finale - the last movement or concluding section of a large composition.
fine - the end.
finement - acutely.
fiebile - sad, mournful.
flat - a symbol placed in front of a note to indicate lowering that note by one half step. 
florid - ornamented, embellished, decorated.
form - the plan of organization of musical materials.
forte - loud. 
forte-piano - loud, then immediately soft. 
forte possibile - as loud as possible. 
fortissimo - very loud. 
forza - strength, power.
forzando/forzato - forced, usually on one note or chord.
freddezza - coldness.
frescamente - vigorously.
fretta - increasing the time.
funerale - mournful.
fuoco - fire, passion.
fugal - in the style of a fugue; use of contrapuntal imitation.
fughetta - a short fugue or a fugal section in a composition.
fugue - a contrapuntal form based on imitation of a subject (theme) written for two or more voices. It is based on a short theme or subject, stated at the beginning by one voice, and brought in by each of the others in turn.
furioso - furiously.
furore - fury, rage.
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