Terms
A
- a cappella
- aaron copland
- accelerando
- accent
- accessible
- accidental
- accompaniment
- accompanist
- accompanyist
- accordionist
- acid rock
- adagio
- adapter
- adolphe sax
- aficionado
- african-american music
- alan jay lerner
- alban berg
- aleksandr nikolayevich scriabin
- aleksandr scriabin
- alla breve
- allargando
- allegretto
- allegro
- alto
- alto saxophonist
- altoist
- andante
- andrew lloyd webber
- anton bruckner
- apollo
- aram ilich khachaturian
- aram kachaturian
- aram khachaturian
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- arioso
- arnold schoenberg
- arnold schonberg
- arrangement
- arranger
- arranging
- art rock
- art tatum
- arthur rubinstein
- arthur tatum
- artur rubinstein
- atonal
- audio cd
- audio compact disc
B
- bach
- backup
- bagatelle
- ballad
- ballad maker
- ballet
- ballroom music
- band
- bandwagon
- bar
- bar line
- baron lloyd webber of sydmonton
- baroque
- baroque era
- baroque period
- barrel organ
- bartok
- bass
- bass part
- bassist
- bassoonist
- Beat
- beat
- beats per minute
- beethoven
- beethovenian
- beguine
- bela bartok
- bell ringer
- bellows
- benjamin david goodman
- benny goodman
- berg
- berlin
- big band
- bill haley
- black music
- blitzstein
- bloch
- bluegrass
- body
- bolero
- bombardon
- boogie
- boulez
- boxwood
- bpm
- bragi
- brahms
- brass band
- brass family
- break dance
- bruckner
- busk
- byrd
C
- c and w
- c major
- cadence
- cadenza
- cage
- calando
- calliope
- canon
- cantabile
- cantata
- cantillate
- canto
- cantor
- capital of tennessee
- capriccio
- carillonneur
- carioca
- carl orff
- carlos chavez
- carol
- carolina wren
- cash
- cast
- castrato
- ceilidh
- celesta
- chamber music
- chamber orchestra
- chant
- chart
- chavez
- cherubini
- choir
- choirmaster
- chopin
- chorale
- chord
- Chords
- choreograph
- choreography
- chorus
- chromatic scale
- church music
- cither
- cittern
- clara josephine schumann
- clarinetist
- clarinettist
- classical
- classical music
- classicism
- classifying adjective
- claude achille debussy
- claude debussy
- clavier
- clef
- cocoswood
- cocuswood
- coda
- cole albert porter
- cole porter
- color
- coloration
- coloratura
- coloratura soprano
- colour
- colouration
- combo
- compose
- composer
- composing
- composition
- con brio
- concert
- concert band
- concert dance
- concerted music
- concerto
- conduct
- conductor
- conga
- consonance
- consort
- contralto
- copland
- copyright
- copyrighted
- cornet
- cornetist
- counterpoint
- country and western
- country music
- couperin
- courante
- crescendo
- crossover
- crotchet
- cut
D
- d.j.
- dance
- dance music
- danceroom music
- dancing
- darius milhaud
- davis
- debussy
- decreasing
- decrescendo
- dedication
- deems taylor
- demisemiquaver
- department of music
- descant
- descriptive adjective
- develop
- development
- diatonic
- diminished
- diminuendo
- director
- disc
- disc jockey
- disc-jockey
- disco
- disco music
- discography
- discotheque
- disk
- disk jockey
- disk-jockey
- dissonance
- dissonant
- divertimento
- dj
- dominant
- doo-wop
- double bar
- double flat
- double sharp
- downbeat
- drone
- drop
- drum
- duet
- duette
- dulcimer
- duo
- duple time
- dynamics
E
- ecdysiast
- edgar varese
- edvard grieg
- edvard hagerup grieg
- eighth note
- electric organ
- electronic instrument
- elegy
- elgar
- elvis aron presley
- elvis presley
- emphasis
- encore
- engelbert humperdinck
- ensemble
- entr’acte
- epigon
- epigone
- ernest bloch
- ethel merman
- ethnic music
- etude
- eugene curran kelly
- eurhythmics
- eurhythmy
- eurythmics
- eurythmy
- euterpe
- executant
- exotic dancer
- exposition
- expressionism
- expressive style
F
G
H
- habanera
- haley
- half note
- half rest
- half step
- hammerstein
- hampton
- handel
- handy
- harlem renaissance
- harmonic
- harmonics
- harmonious
- harmonisation
- harmonise
- harmoniser
- harmonization
- harmonize
- harmonizer
- harmony
- Harmony
- harry lauder
- haydn
- heavy metal
- heavy metal music
- helicon
- hemidemisemiquaver
- hendrix
- henri toulouse-lautrec
- herbert
- herman
- high mass
- hillbilly music
- hindemith
- hip-hop
- hippies
- hipsters
- hit
- home key
- homophony
- hop
- horn
- hornist
- hornpipe
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- howard lindsay
- humperdinck
- hymn
I
J
- jackson
- jakob ludwig felix mendelssohn-bartholdy
- james marshall hendrix
- jangling
- jangly
- jazz
- jazz band
- jazz group
- jazz musician
- jazzman
- jelly roll morton
- jerome david kern
- jerome kern
- jerome robbins
- jew’s harp
- jews’ harp
- jig
- jimi hendrix
- jive
- johann sebastian bach
- johannes brahms
- john cage
- john cash
- john lennon
- john milton cage jr.
- johnny cash
- jook
- jook house
- jook joint
- joseph deems taylor
- joseph oliver
- jug band
- juke
- juke house
- juke joint
K
L
M
- m.m.
- macumba
- madrigal
- maestro
- mahalia jackson
- major
- marc blitzstein
- march
- marching band
- marching music
- maria luigi carlo zenobio cherubini
- mariachi
- martial music
- mass
- master class
- mazurka
- mccartney
- measure
- mediant
- medley
- melodic theme
- melodious
- melody
- membranophone
- mendelssohn
- merman
- metalhead
- Meter
- metronome
- metronome marking
- mezzo
- midi
- miles davis
- miles dewey davis jr.
- milhaud
- military march
- military music
- minim
- minor
- minuet
- modal
- modern
- mods
- modulate
- modulation
- monody
- monophonic music
- monophony
- monotone
- morceau
- morton
- motif
- motive
- mouth bow
- movement
- mozart
- musette
- mush
- music
- music box
- music critic
- music department
- music director
- music genre
- music lesson
- music of the spheres
- music paper
- music rack
- music school
- music teacher
- musical
- musical accompaniment
- musical arrangement
- musical box
- musical chairs
- musical composition
- musical drama
- musical genre
- musical group
- musical harmony
- musical instrument
- musical instrument digital interface
- musical notation
- musical note
- musical octave
- musical organisation
- musical organization
- musical passage
- musical perception
- musical performance
- musical phrase
- musical rhythm
- musical scale
- musical score
- musical soiree
- musical style
- musical time
- musicality
- musically
- musicalness
- musician
- musicianship
- musicogenic epilepsy
- musicological
- musicologically
- musicologist
- musicology
- mute
N
O
P
- paganini
- parnassus
- parodist
- parody
- part
- part music
- partial
- partita
- paso doble
- passage
- pastiche
- pastoral
- paul hindemith
- paul mccartney
- pavan
- pavane
- peeler
- pentatonic scale
- percussion instrument
- percussionist
- performance
- performer
- performing artist
- pete seeger
- peter seeger
- philharmonic
- phonograph record
- phonograph recording
- phrase
- phrasing
- pianissimo
- pianissimo assai
- piano
- piano music
- pibroch
- piece
- piece of music
- pierre boulez
- pipe organ
- pitch
- pizzicato
- plagal cadence
- platter
- play
- play list
- player
- playing
- polka
- polyphonic music
- polyphony
- polytonalism
- polytonality
- pop
- pop group
- pop music
- popular
- popular music
- popular music genre
- popularism
- porter
- potpourri
- precentor
- prelude
- preparation
- presley
- presto
- prix de rome
- processional
- program music
- programme music
- progression
- progressive rock
- prosodion
- psychedelic rock
- publisher
- punk
- punk rock
- punks
- put down
- pyrotechnics
Q
R
- racket
- rag
- ragtime
- rallentando
- ralph vaughan williams
- rap
- rap music
- rapper
- rastafari
- rave
- ravi shankar
- Reading a Song
- realisation
- realise
- realization
- realize
- recapitulation
- recital
- recitalist
- recitative
- record
- record company
- record hop
- recording label
- reed
- reed instrument
- reel
- refrain
- reggae
- register
- registration
- reharmonisation
- reharmonization
- relational adjective
- release
- religious music
- religious song
- renaissance
- rendering
- rendition
- reprise
- requiem
- resolution
- resonance
- rest
- rhapsody
- rhumba
- Rhyme Scheme
- rhythm
- Rhythm & Blues
- rhythm and blues musician
- rhythmicity
- richard rodgers
- richard wagner
- right of first publication
- rimski-korsakov
- rimsky-korsakov
- ring
- robbins
- robert alexander schumann
- robert schumann
- rock
- rock ‘n’ roll musician
- rock concert
- rock opera
- rock star
- rockabilly
- rocker
- rococo
- rodgers
- roger huntington sessions
- roger sessions
- romantic
- rondeau
- rondo
- root
- roulade
- round
- royal national eisteddfod
- rubato
- rubinstein
- rumba
S
- sackbut
- saltation
- salzburg
- samba
- saraband
- sax
- saxist
- saxophonist
- scalar
- scale
- scalic
- scat
- scat singing
- scherzo
- schmaltz
- schoenberg
- schonberg
- school of music
- schottische
- schumann
- Score
- score
- score paper
- scriabin
- section
- seeger
- segno
- segue
- semibreve
- semiquaver
- semitone
- septet
- septette
- sequence
- serenade
- serialism
- serious music
- sessions
- sestet
- set down
- set to music
- seventh
- sextet
- sextette
- sforzando
- shankar
- sharp
- sharpen
- sheet music
- shimmy
- shofar
- shophar
- si
- sight-read
- sightread
- sightreader
- singing
- singing voice
- sir edward elgar
- sir edward william elgar
- sir harry maclennan lauder
- sir james paul mccartney
- sitar player
- sixteenth note
- sixth
- sixty-fourth note
- skank
- skiffle
- slide
- slop
- slowly
- slur
- smooth
- snake charmer
- so
- softly
- soh
- soiree musicale
- sol
- solfa syllable
- solmisation
- solmization
- solo
- soloist
- sonata
- sonata form
- sonatina
- sondheim
- song
- songbird
- songster
- soprano
- soul
- soundboard
- soundbox
- sounding board
- space
- square-dance music
- staccato
- Staff
- staff
- stand
- statement
- stave
- steam organ
- step
- stephen sondheim
- stop
- stravinsky
- stress
- strike
- string quartet
- stringed instrument
- strip
- strip show
- stripper
- striptease
- striptease artist
- stripteaser
- style
- subdivision
- subdominant
- submediant
- suite
- supertonic
- support
- svengali
- swing
- swoop
- symphony
- syncopation
- syncopator
- synthesiser
- synthesizer
- system
T
- ta’ziyeh
- tablature
- tallis
- tango
- tarantella
- tatum
- taylor
- te
- techno
- teddy boys
- temperament
- Tempo
- tempo
- tenor
- tenor clef
- tenor saxophonist
- tenorist
- terpsichore
- texture
- the star-spangled banner
- theme
- theme song
- theremin
- third
- thirty-second note
- thomas tallis
- thomas wright waller
- thryothorus ludovicianus
- ti
- tie
- timber
- timbre
- Time Signature
- time signature
- timing
- tin pan alley
- toccata
- tonal
- tonal pattern
- tonality
- tone
- tone ending
- tone-beginning
- tone-deaf
- tonic
- tonic key
- tootle
- toulouse-lautrec
- track
- transcribe
- transcriber
- transcription
- transition
- transpose
- transposition
- treacle
- treble
- tremolo
- triad
- trill
- trio
- trip the light fantastic
- trip the light fantastic toe
- triple time
- triplet
- trombone player
- trombonist
- trump
- trumpet
- trumpeter
- tucket
- tune
- tune up
- tuneful
- tuning
- tuning fork
- tweedle
- twelve-tone music
- twelve-tone system
- twist
- tympan
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V
W
- w. c. handy
- wagner
- wagnerian
- waller
- waltz
- warm-toned
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- whole note
- whole rest
- whole step
- wilhelm richard wagner
- william byrd
- william christopher handy
- william john clifton haley jr.
- wind instrument
- wood warbler
- woodrow charles herman
- woodwind family
- woody herman
- world premiere