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
B
BACH motif – Back beat – Ballet – Bar (music) – Baroque – 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 – Bridge – British opera
C
Cadence (music) – Cadenza – Call and response (music) – Canon (music) – Cantillation – Castrato – Cent (music) – Chaconne – Chamber music – Child singer – Choir – Chorale – Chord (music) – Chord progression – Chorus – Chromatic – Chromatic scale – Cimbasso – Circle of fifths – Clapping – Clef – Close harmony – Coda – Combination tone – Compound metre – Composer – Concert band – Conclusion – Consonance – Counterpoint – Cover version – Crescendo – Cubase
D
Da capo – Da capo aria – Dance – 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
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Ear training – Electronic music – Equal temperament – Enharmonic – Ethnomusicology – Exposition
F
Falsetto – Feedback – Flatted fifth – Fifth – Finale notation program – Figured bass – Forte – Fortissimo – Fourth – Frequency – Fruityloops – Fugue
G
Gamelan – Gebrauchsmusik – Genre – Glissando – GNU LilyPond
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Harmonic – Harmonic accompaniment – Harmonic series (music) – Harmony – Hammond Organ – Hearing (sense) – Hemiola – Hexachord – Hornbostel-Sachs – Hymn
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Improvisation – Indefinite pitch – Inharmonic – Instrumentation – Interactive music – Interval (music) – Interval class – Intonation – Inversion (music) – Irrational rhythm – Isorhythm
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K
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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
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 – Modulation (music) – Monophony – Motet – Motif (music) – Mouthpiece – Music – Music and politics – Music history – Music technology – Music theory – Musical acoustics – Musical band – Musical composition – Musical ensemble – Musical genre – Musical instrument – Musical keyboard – Musical mode – Musical notation – Musical ornament – Musical piece – Musical terminology – Musical tuning – Musician – Musicology – Mute (music)
N
Nonchord tone – Note – Novelty song – Numerical sight-singing
O
Octave – Octave illusion – Opera – Operetta – Oratorio – Orchestra – Orchestration– Organ – Organology – Ornament – Ostinato – Overtone
P
Parallel minor/major – Passacaglia – Passion – Patriotic song – Pensato – Pentatonic scale – Perfect fourth – Perfect fifth – Period – Periodic – Phonograph – Phrase (music) – Physics of music – Picardy third – 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
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R
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 – Rhythm – Rhythmic gesture – Rhythmic unit – Riddim – Riff – Rosegarden – Rotary valve – Round (music)
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Sampling (music) – Sargam – Scale (music) – Scratching – Second – Secondary dominant – Secundal – Serial music – Sequence – Seventh – Shape note – Sheet music – Shepard tone – Sibelius notation program – Singing school – Single – Sight reading – Simple meter – Simultaneity – Simultaneity succession – Sixth – Skip – Solo – Solfege – Sonata form – Sonata – Song – Soprano – Sound – Sound quality – Sound recording – Sound sculpture – Sound system – Staccato – Staff – Step – Stochastic – Strähle's construction – Subdominant – Substitute dominant – Succession – Suite – Suzuki method – Suspension (music) – Swung note – Symmetry – Sympathetic strings – Symphony – Syncopation– Syntonic comma
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Tablature – Temperament – Tempo – Tenor – Tension – Ternary form – Tertian – Tertium major – Tertium minor – 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 – Transposing instrument – Transposition (music) – Tremolo – Triad (music) – Trill – Triplet – Tritone – Tuning – Tuplet – Twelve-tone technique
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V
Verse – Vertical – Vibrato – Video game music – Vocal music – Voice registers –
W
Wah-wah – Wolf interval –
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