| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Motet | In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. |
| Motif | In music, a motif is a perceivable or salient recurring fragment or succession of notes that may be used to construct the entirety or parts of complete melodies and themes. |
| Mouthpiece | The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. |
| Movement | A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. |
| Music | Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence. Elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, structure, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. |
| Music drama | Music drama is the term ascribed to the revolutionary medium of artistic expression created by the German composer Richard Wagner. This was a musical dramatic work for the theatre, where the music does not stop and is a part of the emotional telling of sung drama. |
| Music genre | A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music. |
| Music radio | Music radio is a radio format where music is the primary source of broadcast content on both commercial and non-commercial stations. |
| Music theory | Music theory is the field of study that deals with the mechanics of music and how music works. It often involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. |
| Music video | A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. |
| Musical | Musical may refer to: (1) Music, as a noun (2) Musical theatre, a live theatrical show on stage where the drama progresses by means of music, song and (often) dance (3) Musical film, the film analog of the musical theatre |
| Musical development | In European classical music, musical development is a process by which a musical idea is communicated in the course of a composition. It refers to the transformation and restatement of initial material, and is often contrasted with musical variation, which is a slightly different means to the same end. |
| Musical instrument | A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument. |
| Musical instrument classification | At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used. The most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments into string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments. |
| Musical keyboard | A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. |
| Musical mode | In music, a scale is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. However, mode is usually used in the sense of scale applied only to the specific diatonic scales. The use of more than one mode is polymodal, such as with polymodal chromaticism. While all tonal music may technically be described as modal, music that is called modal often has less diatonic functionality and changes key less often than other music. |
| Musical set theory | In music, musical set theory provides concepts for categorizing musical objects and describing their relationships. |
| Musicality | Musicality refers to fitting a dance to the music being played, with the goal of relating the dance to the music's rhythm, melody, and mood. |
| Musicology | Musicology (Greek: μουσικη = "music" and λογος = "word" or "reason") is the scholarly study of music. |
| Mute | A mute is a device fitted to a musical instrument to alter the sound produced: by affecting the timbre, reducing the volume, or most commonly both. |
| Mystic chord | The mystic chord is a complex[citation needed] six-note musical chord which loosely serves as the harmonic basis for some of the later music by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. |
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