| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Gagaku | Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries. |
| Galante music | A new style of classical music, fashionable from the 1720s to the 1770s, was called Galante music. It consciously simplified contrapuntal texture and intense composing techniques that realized a pattern on the page and substituted a clear leading voice with a transparent accompaniment. |
| Galliard | The galliard (gaillarde, in French) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. |
| Gamelan | A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. |
| Gedackt | Gedackt (also spelled gedeckt) is the name of a family of stops in pipe organ building. |
| Gigue | As a musical form, gigues frequently occur as movements in binary form in larger works such as concertos and sonatas. It was the most common final movement in a baroque suite. |
| Glee club | A glee club is a choir, historically of men but also of just women or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in singing short songs. |
| Glissando | Glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another. It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, to glide. |
| Gnawa music | Gnawa music is a mixture of African, Berber, and Arabic religious songs and rhythms. It combines music and acrobatic dancing. The music is both a prayer and a celebration of life. |
| golden ratio | In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller. The golden ratio is approximately 1.6180339887. Used by many 20th century composers, especially Bela Bartok, to determine the point of climax for a given work. |
| Gospel music | Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. |
| Grace note | A grace note is a kind of music notation used to denote several kinds of musical ornaments. When occurring by itself, a single grace note normally indicates the intention of either an appoggiatura or an acciaccatura. |
| Grand Opera | Grand Opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterised by large-scale casts and orchestras, and (in their original productions) lavish and spectacular design and stage-effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events. |
| Grand staff | The Grand Staff using both bass clef on the bottom and treble clef on top allows for four octaves of notation, counting the two high leger lines for Soprano C and two leger lines below bass clef for Deep C. |
| Graphic notation | Musical graphic notation is a form of music notation which refers to the use of non-traditional symbols and text to convey information about the performance of a piece of music. It is used for experimental music, which in many cases is difficult to notate using standard notation. |
| Greek dorian mode | The Dorian mode is named after the Dorian Greeks. In Greek music theory it was based on the Dorian tetrachord: descending, a series of falling intervals of two whole tones followed by a semitone. |
| Greek Lydian mode | The Lydian mode is named after the ancient kingdom of Lydia in Anatolia. In Greek music theory it was based on the Lydian tetrachord: descending (the way the Greeks always wrote about it), a series of falling intervals of a semitone followed by two whole tones. Applied to a whole octave, the Lydian mode was built upon two Lydian tetrachords separated by a whole tone. |
| Groove | The term groove is used to describe the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or sense of "swing" created by the interaction of the music played by a band's rhythm section (drums, electric bass or double bass, guitar, and keyboards). |
| Ground bass | A ground bass (also basso ostinato: obstinate bass) is a bass part or bassline that sometimes repeats continually, while the melody and possibly harmony over it always repeat. |
| Guitar tunings | Guitar tunings are any of several techniques of pitch adjustment on the individual strings of a guitar in order to achieve a prescribed arrangement of notes from the open (unfretted) strings. |
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