List of musical topics
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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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A cappella – Absolute pitch – Accidental – Accompaniment – Ad libitum – Adagio – Added tone chord – Additive rhythm – Album – Aleatoric music – Allegro – Alto – Ambiguity – American Music Awards – Antiphon – Arrangement – Articulation – Aspects of music – Atonality – Audio mixing – Auditory illusion – Authentic performance – Augmentation – Augmented chord
[edit] B
BACH motif – Back beat – Ballet – Band (music) – Bar (music) – Baroque music – Bass – Bass run – Bassline – Basso – Basso continuo – Beat & Beat (music) – Beatmatching – Bel canto – Binary form – Blue note – Blues – Blues ballad – Bohlen-Pierce scale – Boogie woogie – Braille music – Break (music) – Bridge – British opera
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Cadence (music) – Cadenza – Call and response (music) – Canon (music) – Cantillation – Castrato – Cent (music) – Chaconne – Chamber music – Child singer – Chicano Punk – Choir – Chorale – Chord (music) – Chord progression – Chromatic chord – Chromatic fantasia – Chromatic genus – Chromatic scale – Cimbasso – Circle of fifths – Clapping – Clef – Climax Blues Band – Close harmony – coda – Combination tone – Compound metre – Composer – Conductor (music) – Concert band – Conclusion – Consonance – Counterpoint – Cover version – Crescendo – Critic, music – Cubase
[edit] D
Da capo – Da capo aria – Dance – Dance/Electronic Music – Dance and music of Latin America – Definite pitch – Definition of music – Deutsch's scale illusion – Diapason – Diapente – Diatessaron – Diatonic functionality – Diatonic scale – Diesis – Diminished chord – Diminished scale – Diminuendo – Diminution – Dissonance – Dominant – Drone – DSCH – Dubreq Stylophone – Duet – Duple – Dynamics
[edit] E
Ear training – Electronic music – Equal temperament – Enharmonic – Ethnomusicology – Exposition
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Falsetto – Feedback – Fifth – Filk – Finale notation program – Figured bass – Flatted fifth – Footloose (soundtrack) – Forte – Fortissimo – Fourth – Frequency – Fruityloops – Fry Tones – Fugue
[edit] G
Gamelan – Gebrauchsmusik – Genre – Ghost notes – Glissando – GNU LilyPond – Grace note – Glass Curtain
[edit] H
Harmonic – Harmonic accompaniment – Harmonic series (music) – Harmony – Hammond Organ – Hearing (sense) – Hemiola – Hexachord – Hornbostel-Sachs – Hymn
[edit] I
Improvisation – Indefinite pitch – Indian Classical Music – Inharmonic – Instrumentation (music) – Interactive music – Interval (music) – Interval class – Intonation – Inversion (music) – Irrational rhythm – Isorhythm – Industrial (music)
[edit] J
Just intonation – Jazz standards –
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[edit] L
Largo – Larghetto – Leading-tone – Learning music by ear – Legato – Leitmotif – Ligature – Limit (music) – Linear – List of major chord shapes for guitar – List of popular music terms – Lubbock Sound
[edit] M
Madrigal -- Major chord -- Major second -- Major scale -- Major seventh -- Major sixth -- Major third -- Maqam -- Mathematics of the Western music scale -- Meantone temperament -- Measure -- Melody -- Metre -- Metronome -- Mezzo-soprano -- Micropolyphony -- Microtonal music -- Microtone -- Minor chord -- Minor second -- Minor scale -- Minor seventh -- Minor sixth -- Minor third -- Missing fundamental -- Mix -- Mixing -- Modern musical symbols -- Modulation (music) -- Monophony -- Motet -- Motif (music) -- Mouthpiece (brass) -- Mouthpiece (woodwind) -- Music -- Music and politics -- Music critic -- Music genre -- Music historian -- Music history -- Music journalist -- Music technology -- Music theory -- Musical acoustics -- Band (music) -- Musical composition -- Musical ensemble -- Musical form -- Musical instrument -- Musical keyboard -- Musical mode -- Musical notation -- Musical ornament -- Musical piece -- Musical terminology -- Musical tuning -- Musician -- Musicology -- Mute (music)-- My Epiphany
[edit] N
New interfaces for musical expression – NME wreckidz Nonchord tone – Note – Nova Moturba - Novelty song – Numerical sight-singing
[edit] O
Octave – Octave illusion – Opera – Operetta – Oratorio – Orchestra – Orchestration– Organ – Organology – Ornament – Ostinato – Overtone
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Pastance – Parallel minor/major – Passacaglia – Passion – Patriotic song – Pensato – Pentatonic scale – Perfect fourth – Perfect fifth – Period (music) – Phonograph – Phrase (music) – Physics of music – Picardy third – Pipe band – Piston valve – Pitch (music) – Pitch space – Pizzicato – Plainsong – Polyphony – Polyrhythm – Polytonality – Power chord – Precompositional – Presto – Protest song – Pseudo-octave – Psychoacoustics – Pulse – Pythagorean comma – Pythagorean tuning
[edit] Q
Quartal and quintal harmony – Quodlibet
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Radio Luxembourg – Raga – Raggamuffin – Range – Reason (program) – Recitative – Record label – Recording industry – Register (music) – Relative minor/major – Relative pitch – Relaxation – Remix – Resolution (music) – Resonance – Rhapsody (music) – Rhythm – Rhythmic gesture – Rhythmic unit – Riddim – Riff – Rock music – Rosegarden – Rotary valve – Round (music)
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Sampling (music) – Sargam – Scale (music) – Scratching – Second – Secondary dominant – Secundal – Segue – Serial music – Sequence – Seventh – Shades of Amber – Shape note – Sheet music – Shepard tone – Sibelius notation program – Singing school – Single – Sight reading – Simple meter – Simultaneity – Simultaneity succession – Sixth – Skip – Solo (music) – Solfege – Sonata form – Sonata – Song – Soprano – Soul – Sound – Sound quality – Sound recording – Sound sculpture – Sound system – Stab – Staccato – Staff – Step – Stochastic – Strähle's construction – Subdominant – Substitute dominant – Succession – Suite – Suzuki method – Suspension (music) – Swung note – Symmetry – Sympathetic strings – Symphony – Syncopation – Synthesizer – Syntonic comma –
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Tablature – Temperament – Tempo – Tenor – Tension – Ternary form – Tertian – Tertium major – Tertium minor – Tetrachord – Third – Tie (music) – Timbre – Timeline of trends in music (1900-1950) – Timeline of trends in music (1951-present) – Time signature – Time unit box system – Tone cluster – Tone row – Tonic (music) – Tonicization – Tonic Sol-fa – Total chromatic – Transposing instrument – Transposition (music) – Tremolo – Triad (music) – Trill – Triplet – Tritone – Tuning – Tuplet – Tutti – Twelve-tone technique
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[edit] V
Verse – Vertical – Vibrato – Video game music – Vienna horn – Vocal music – Voice registers –
[edit] W
Wah-wah – Wolf interval –
