| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Single-stroke roll | In percussion, the single-stroke roll is a rudiment consisting of alternating sticking (i.e. R, L, R, L, etc) of indeterminate speed and length. |
| Sixteenth note | In music, a sixteenth note (American or "German" terminology) or semiquaver (also occasionally demiquaver, British or "classical" terminology) is a note played for one sixteenth the duration of a whole note. |
| Sixth chord | In music, a sixth chord is any chord, or meaningful connection of notes, that contains the interval of a sixth. |
| Sixty-fourth note | In music notation, a sixty-fourth note (American or "German" terminology) or hemidemisemiquaver (British or "classical" terminology) is a note played for 1/64 of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve). |
| Slur | A slur is a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played without separation. |
| Snare technique | Snare technique is the technique used to play a snare drum. |
| Solo | In music, a solo (from the Italian solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. |
| Sonata | Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, to sing), a piece sung. |
| Sonata da Chiesa | Sonata da Chiesa (Italian:Church sonata) is an instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period, generally consisting of four movements. More than one melody was often used, and the movements were ordered slow–fast–slow–fast with respect to tempo. |
| Sonata cycle | In reference to performance or recording, sonata cycle almost always means the complete traversal of a set of works by a single composer. In music theory it can refer to the layout of a multi-movement work where the movements are recognizably in the forms of classical music tradition, headed by a sonata form movement, also called sonata-allegro movement, in preference to other terms that are used for the same concept. |
| Sonata form | Sonata form is a musical form that has been used widely since the early Classical period. It has typically been used in the first movement of multimovement pieces, and is therefore more specifically referred to as sonata-allegro form or first-movement form. |
| Sonata rondo form | Sonata rondo form was a form of musical organization often used during the Classical music era. As the name implies, it is a blend of sonata form and rondo form. |
| Song structure | The structures or musical forms of songs in popular music are typically sectional forms, such as strophic form. Other common forms include thirty-two-bar form, verse-chorus form, and twelve bar blues. Popular music songs are rarely through-composed. |
| Sopranist | A sopranist (or sopranista) is a male classical singer with a voice-type and register equivalent to that of a female soprano. |
| Soprano | A soprano is a singer with a voice range from approximately middle C (C4) to "high A" (A5) in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) or higher in operatic music. |
| Sound | Sound is the vibration of matter, as perceived by the sense of hearing. Physically, sound is vibrational mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave. |
| Sound design | Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. It covers all non-compositional elements of a film, a play, a music performance or recording, computer game software or any other multimedia project. |
| Sound hole | A sound hole is an opening in the upper sounding board of a stringed musical instrument. |
| Sounding board | The sounding board or soundboard is the part of a string instrument that transmits the vibrations of the strings to the air, greatly increasing the loudness of sound over that of the string alone. |
| Space music | Space music, also spelled spacemusic, is an umbrella term used to describe music that evokes a sense of spatial imagery and emotion or sensations of floating, cruising, flying and other transportative sensations. Space music can be found within a wide range of genres. It is particularly associated with ambient, new age, and electronic music. Some music from the western classical, world, Celtic, traditional, experimental and other idioms also falls within the definition of space music. |
| Spiccato | Spiccato is a bowing technique for stringed instruments in which the bow bounces lightly upon the string. |
| Spinto | Spinto (from Italian, "pushed") is a vocal term used to characterize a soprano or tenor voice of a weight between lyric and dramatic that is capable of handling large dramatic climaxes at moderate intervals. |
| Staccato | In musical notation, the Italian word staccato (literally detached, plural staccatos or staccati) indicates that notes are sounded in a detached and distinctly separate manner, with silence making up the latter part of the time allocated to each note. |
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