Outline of music

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to music:

Music – human expression in the medium of time using the structures of sounds or tones and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre.

General topics

• Music theory –
• Musical acoustics –
• Band (music) –
• Composition –
• Ensemble –
• Genre –
• Instrument –
• Musical keyboard –
• Mode –
• Musician –
• Music and politics –
• Music history –
• Music lessons –
• Music technology –
• Musical notation –
• Musical terminology –
• Musical theatre –
• Tuning –
• Musicology –
• Philosophy of music –
• Theatre music –

History of music

• Timeline of musical events –

By region or ethnicity

• Timeline of trends in Australian music –
• Timeline of Chinese music –
• Timeline of trends in Italian music –
• Timeline of trends in Russian music –
• Timeline of music in the United States –

Music industry topics

• Album –
• Compact disc (CD) –
• Compact Cassette –
• Concert –
• Concert tour –
• Grammy Awards –
• Music recording sales certification –
• Performance –
• Record –
• Record industry –
• Recording studio –

People

• A&R –
• ASCAP –
• Band manager –
• Booking agent –
• BMI –
• Copyright collective –
• Disc jockey –
• MCPS –
• Musician – person who writes, performs, or makes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music.
  • Instrumentalist – one who plays a musical instrument.
    • Traditional instrumentalist – one who plays folk music on traditional instruments such as gongs.
    • Classical instrumentalist – one who plays classical music, usually with Western orchestral instruments such as the violin, flute etc.
    • Instrumentalists who plays popular music – one who plays with instruments in the big band, e.g. the electric guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet, trombone etc.
  • Singer – a vocalist.
  • Composer – person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media.
    • Songwriter –
    • Arranger –
  • Conductor – leads a musical ensemble. A conductor may simultaneously act as an instrumentalist in the ensemble.
  • Recording artist – creates recorded music, such as CDs and MP3 files.
• Musicians' Union –
• Publisher –
• PRS –
• Record producer –
• Record label –
• Record distributor –
• Tour promoter –
• Road crew ("roadies") –
• Performance rights organisation –

Ensembles

Main articles: Musical ensemble and list of musical ensembles

• Band –
• Organ trio –
• Power trio –
• Choir –
• Concert band –
• Duet –
• Marching Band –
• Orchestra –
• Quartet –
• Quintet –
• Big band –

Genres of music

Main articles: Musical genre and List of musical genres

Examples of genres:   

• Ballet
• Blues –
• Classical –
• Country –
• Electronic –
• Electronic dance –
• Electronica –
• Funk –
• Gospel –
• Grunge –
• Hip hop –
• Jazz –
• Latin American –
• Metal –
• Opera
• Progressive rock –
• Reggae –
• Punk rock –
• Rhythm and blues –
• Rock –
• Ska

Music by region

Music of Africa Sovereign states Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe States with limited recognition Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland Dependencies and other territories Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

Music of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

Music of South America Sovereign states Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela Dependencies and other territories Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Music of Asia Sovereign states Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen States with limited recognition Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan Dependencies and other territories British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

Music of Europe Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City States with limited recognition Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other territories Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man Svalbard

Music of Oceania Sovereign states Australia Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Associated states of New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Dependencies and other territories American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

Musical compositions

Types of musical pieces and compositions

Single-movement forms

• Strophic form (AA...) –
• Binary form (AB) –
• Ternary form less often tertiary (ABA) –
• Arch form (ABCBA)

Multi-movement forms

• Ballet –
• Cantata –
• Chorale –
• Concerto –
• Dance –
• Etude –
• Fantasia –
• Fugue –
• Mass –
• Opera –
• Oratorio –
• Prelude –
• Requiem –
• Rhapsody –
• Sonata –
• Suite –
• Symphonic poem –
• Symphony –

Sections of a piece or composition

• Introduction –
• Exposition –
• Recapitulation –
• Verse –
• Refrain (chorus) –
• Bridge –
• Interlude –
• Guitar solo –
• Conclusion –
• Coda –
• Fadeout

Musical notation

Main article: Musical notation   See also: Modern musical symbols and Sheet music.

• Staff –
  • Clefs –
  • Key signature –
    • Key –
  • Time signature –
    • Beats –
  • Bars (Measures) –
  • Ledger lines –
• Grand staff –
• Notes –
  • Note values –
  • Dotted notes –
  • Ties –
• Accidentals –
  • Tempo –
  • Dynamics –
• Lyrics (included on vocal music) –
• Score (for ensembles) –

Variations of musical notation

• Percussion notation –
• Figured bass –
• Lead sheets –
• Chord charts –
  • Shape note system –

Musical skills and procedures

• Absolute pitch –
• Ear training –
• Fingering –
• Learning music by ear –
• Modulation –
• Numerical sight-singing –
• Practice –
• Relative pitch –
• Sight reading –
• "Swinging" –
• Transposition –
• Tuning –
• Virtuosity –

Vocal ranges

• Vocal range –

Female ranges

• Soprano –
• Mezzo-soprano –
• Contralto –

Male ranges

• Boy soprano –
• Sopranist –
• Alto –
• Tenor –
• Baritone –
• Bass-baritone –
• Bass –

Instruments

• Wind instruments –
• Percussion instruments –
• String instruments –
• Voice –
• Electronic instruments –
• Keyboard instruments –

See also the List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number

See also

• Index of music articles
• Glossary of musical terminology

External links

• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
• Taxonomy of musical instruments
• The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples, quizzes and simulations
• The Music-Web Music Encyclopedia, for musicians, composers and music lovers
• Dolmetsch free online music dictionary, complete, with references to a list of specialised music dictionaries (by continent, by instrument, by genre, etc.)
• Musico-Dico, a little music encyclopedia.
• "On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education: Bach als Erzieher", a paper by Prof. Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz in which he explains the history of the different views hold about music in Western societies, since the Ancient Greece to our days.
• BBC Blast Music For 13-19 year olds interested in learning about, making, performing and talking about music.
• Musical Terms - Glossary of music terms from Naxos
• Monthly Online Features From Bloomingdale School of Music, addressing a variety of musical topics for a wide audience
• Arts and Music Uplifting Society towards Transformation and Tolerance Articles meant to stimulate people’s awareness about the peace enhancing, transforming,
• PhilosophyOfMusic.org edited by Dustin Garlitz

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