Vocabulary Words About Music

a cappella

accelerando

accent

accidental

accompaniment

accordion

adagio

Aeolian

allegro

alto

amplify

analog

andante

annotation

aria

articulation

atonal

attack

audition

augmented

bagpipe

ballad

ballet

banjo

bar

baritone

baritone

baroque

bass

bass drum

bass drum

bass guitar

bassoon

beat

binary

bluegrass

blues

brass instrument

brusque

bugle

cadence

cadenza

calando

canon

cantabile

cantata

carol

castrato

cello

chamber music

chime

choir

chorale

chord

chordophone

chromatic

clarinet

classical

clavichord

clavier

clef

coda

composer

composition

concertina

concertise

concerto

concerto grosso

conductor

conga

conjunct

conservatory

consonance

contrabass

contralto

copyright

cornet

country music

courante

crescendo

cymbal

dance

decrescendo

development

diatonic

diction

digital

diminished

diminuendo

diphthong

disjunct

dissonance

dominant

Dorian

drone

drumbeat

duet

duple

duration

dynamics

eighth note

embellish

embouchure

encore

encore

English horn

ensemble

episode

etude

exposition

expressionistic

falsetto

fandango

fanfare

fermata

finale

flag

flamenco

flat

flute

folk

form

forte

fortemente

fortissimo

fugue

gavotte

genre

glee

glissando

gospel

grave

Gregorian chant

guitar

half note

harmonica

harmonious

harmonium

harmony

harp

harpsichord

hymn

impressionistic

impromptu

improvise

inharmonic

interlude

intermission

interpretation

interval

intonation

Ionian

jazz

jingle

kazoo

key

keyboard

largo

leading tone

ledger line

legato

leitmotif

lento

libretto

ligature

light opera

loudness

lute

Lydian

lyre

lyric

lyrical

madrigal

maestro

major

mandolin

march

marimba

masterpiece

measure

mediant

medley

melodic

melody

meter

mezzo

mezzo-soprano

MIDI

minor

minuet

modal

mode

moderato

modern

modulation

monophonic

monotone

motif

musette

music

musical

musical

musician

musicianship

musicology

natural

nocturne

notation

note

obbligato

obligato

oboe

ocarina

octave

octet

opera

operetta

opus

oratorio

orchestra

organ

ornament

ostinato

overture

pan

partita

pastiche

pastoral

pentatonic

performance

phrase

Phrygian

pianissimo

piano

pianoforte

piccolo

pipe organ

pitch

pizzicato

play

playback

pluck

polyphonic

pop

postmodern

posture

practice

prelude

presto

production

program

progression

pulse

quadruple

quarter note

quartet

quintet

ragtime

range

recapitulate

recital

recitation

recorder

reed instrument

reed organ

refrain

register

release

Renaissance

reprise

requiem

resolution

resonance

resonate

rest

rhythm

rhythm and blues

ritardando

rock and roll

rococo

romantic

rondo

root

round

rubato

sackbut

sacred

salsa

saxophone

score

secular

septet

sequence

sextet

shanty

sharp

sing

sitar

sixteenth note

sixty-fourth note

skip

slur

snare

softness

solfege

solo

song

soprano

sousaphone

spiritual

staccato

staff

steel drum

stem

step

strophe

subdominant

submediant

subtonic

supertonic

swing

symphony

syncopation

synthesizer

tablature

tempo

tenor

ternary

texture

theme

thirty-second note

timbre

time

time signature

tom-tom

tone

tongue

tonic

triad

triangle

trio

triple

trombone

troubadour

trumpet

tuba

twelve-tone system

ukulele

unison

variation

verse

vibration

vibrato

viola

violin

vivace

vocal

voice

volume

waltz

whistle

whole note

whole tone

wood block

woodwind

xylophone

zither

scherzo

rubato

scale

serenade

slide

bow

sonatina

sonata

sonata form

suite

tremolo

treble

treble clef

bass clef

trill

tune

tuning

virtuoso

duo

alto saxophonist

tenor saxophonist

saxhorn

tenor drum

tenor voice

basso

bass clarinet

basset horn

soprano clef

indie

Gypsy

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Friedrich Handel

Antonio Vivaldi

Joseph Haydn

Franz Schubert

Felix Mendelssohn

Johannes Brahms

Richard Wagner

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Igor Stravinsky

Robert Schumann

Chopin

Claude Debussey

Franz Liszt

Antonin Dvorak

Giuseppe Verdi

Gustav Mahler

Hector Berlioz

Richard Strauss

Prokofiev

Dmitri Shostakovich

Bela Bartok

Anton Bruckner

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Claudio Monteverdi

Jean Sibelius

Maurice Ravel

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Modest Mussorgsky

Giacomo Puccini

Henry Purcell

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov

Arnold Schoenberg

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

Paul Hindemith

Aaron Copland

Francois Couperin

William Byrd

Erik Satie

Benjamin Britten

Cesar Franck

Jean Baptiste Lully

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Carl Maria von Weber

Sir Edward Elgar

Edvard Grieg

Bedrich Smetana

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin

John Cage

Georg Philipp Telemann

George Gershwin

Georges Bizet

Carl Nielsen

William Walton

Vincenzo Bellini

Aleksandr Borodin

Francis Poulenc

Alban Berg

Samuel Barber

Duke Ellington

Miles Davis

Coleman Hawkins

Benny Goodman

Charlie Parker

Dizzy Gillespie

Louis Armstrong

Scott Joplin

John Philip Sousa

mazurka

  1. C. Handy

Jelly Roll Morton

ditty

Bob Dylan

Beatles

John Lennon

Frank Sinatra

Bessie Smith

Bob Marley

Jimi Hendrix

Michael Jackson

Elvis Presley

Chuck Berry

fiddle

Johnny Cash

fusion

psychedelic

Bollywood

electronic

experimental

funk

samba

dub

skank

ambient

avant-garde

rumba

hip-hop

bebop

turntable

soul

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