A cappella: sung without instrumental accompaniment.ĪB: a form made up of two contrasting sections, each of which may or may not be repeated.ĪBA: a form made up of a principal section which is repeated after the completion of a contrasting section.Īccelerando: Italian tempo marking meaning to gradually accelerate or speed up.Īccent: stress, emphasis, force, or loudness given to a sound or tone.Īccidental: the sharpening or flattening of a particular note not indicated in the key signature of a piece the naturalizing of a note that is sharpened or flattened according to the key signature.Īccompaniment: the subordinate music that supports the principal voice or instrument in a piece of music.Īcoustics: the science of sound and how it’s produced.Īllegro: Italian tempo marking meaning vivacious, rapid, fairly fast.Īlto: the lowest female voice or unchanged boy’s voice the range of pitch of an instrument within a particular family of instruments.Īndante: Italian tempo marking meaning in a moderate rate, at a leisurely pace, easily flowing.Īnthem: a short piece for choir on a religious theme.Īria: Italian word for song, mainly used to describe an opera song for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment.Īrpeggio: playing or singing the notes of a chord consecutively, as on a harp.īalance: the state of equilibrium in which all the component parts of the music create a unified whole.īallads: songs that tell stories, many dating back hundreds of years term also served as a title for piano pieces of a vaguely descriptive character.īallet: form of theatrical dance combination of music and dancing.īand: any large body of instrumental players (e.g., brass bands, military bands, dance bands, jazz bands, etc.).īanjo: a plucked instrument with a long guitar-like neck and circular soundtable.īar: a small section of music bar lines are vertical lines marking off groups of beats into small sections.īaritone: the range of male voice pitch that is deeper than tenor, but not so deep as bass.īass: the deepest range of pitch of a man’s voice the range of pitch of an instrument within a particular family of instruments.īass clef: symbol placed on the five-line staff in traditional notation indicating the pitch of the notes and locating F on the fourth line from the bottom.īeat: the regular repeated pulsation in music.īinary: a form or structure in music that has two distinct and contrasting sections (AB), each of which may or may not be repeated.īluegrass: a style of music featuring folk instruments quite rhythmical.īlues: early and basic jazz style of music with a predictable chord structure not religious and usually slow in tempo.īrass family: French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba instruments made of long brass tubes curled up in different shapes with cup-shaped mouthpieces into which air is blown and wide, bell-shaped ends where the sound comes out.Ĭadence: a kind of harmonic punctuation mark (resting place in a musical phrase) that brings a piece or section of a piece of music to a satisfactory close.Ĭadenza: a section of a concerto movement that is reserved for a soloist.
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