Expression markings used by Australian composer Percy Grainger:

• “Louden lots”
• “Soften bit by bit”
• “Lower notes of woggle well to the fore”
• “Glassily”
• “Sipplingly”
• “Bumpingly”
• “Hammeringly”
• “Bundling”
• “Clatteringly”
• “Like a shriek”
• “Very rhythmic and jimp”
• “Rollikingly”
• “Hold until blown”
• “Jogtrottingly”
• “Easygoingly but very clingingly”

Musical directions in Erik Satie’s piano works:

• “Wonder about yourself”
• “Provide yourself with shrewdness”
• “Alone, for one moment”
• “Open the head”
• “Superstitiously”
• “In a very particular way”
• “Light as an egg”
• “Like a nightingale with a toothache”
• “Moderately, I insist”
• “A little bit warm”
• “Very Turkish”

One of Satie’s directions — “Very lost” — might have been unnecessary.