Glossary of Musical Terms

This section includes the following subsections:

Subsection	Link	Examples
Musical terms that are likely to be encountered in printed scores	Musical Terminology	adagissimo con moto forte
Musical terms that describe the process of dividing different kinds of music into categories	Music Styles	Chicago blues Cool jazz Gypsy punk
Musical instruments from around the world	Musical Instruments A to Z Musical Instruments by Nationality Musical Instruments by Type	Banjo Goblet drum Piccolo clarinet
Other words and compound words that are used in musical field	See below	Drum roll Early music Music theory

	Musical Terms: Absolute music - Analysis   Musical Terms: Ancient music - Authentic performance
	Musical Terms: BACH motif - Beijing opera   Musical Terms: Bell - BWV
	Musical Terms: C major - Chaconne   Musical Terms: Chamber music - Circular breathing   Musical Terms: Cis - Computer music   Musical Terms: Concert - Cyclic form
	Musical Terms: Dance music - Double fugue   Musical Terms: Double stop - Dynamics
	Musical Terms: Early music - Eye music
	Musical Terms: Falsetto - Fugue
	Musical Terms: Gagaku - Guitar tunings
	Musical Terms: Half note - Hypodorian mode
	Musical Terms: Idiophone - Italian overture
	Musical Terms: Jarabe - Just intonation
	Musical Terms: Karaoke - Klezmer
	Musical Terms: Lament - Lyrics
	Musical Terms: Madrigal - Meter   Musical Terms: Metronome - Mordent   Musical Terms: Motet - Mystic chord
	Musical Terms: Natural - Nuance
	Musical Terms: Obbligato - Overture
	Musical Terms: Paradiddle - Piston valve   Musical Terms: Pitch - Prolongation
	Musical Terms: Quartal and quintal harmony - Quarter rest
	Musical Terms: Rāga - Rest   Musical Terms: Rhapsody - Running music
	Musical Terms: Satz - Single-reed instrument   Musical Terms: Single-stroke roll - Staccato   Musical Terms: Staff - Syncopation
	Musical Terms: Tablature - Timbre   Musical Terms: Time signature - Triple metre   Musical Terms: Triple stop - Twentieth century classical music
	Musical Terms: Unison - Uvular fluttertonguing
	Musical Terms: Vamp - Voice type
	Musical Terms: Wedding music - World music

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