| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Waltz | A waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in 3/4 time, performed primarily in closed position. |
| Wedding music | Wedding music applies to vocal and/or instrumental music performed at wedding rehearsals, rehearsal dinners, wedding ceremonies, and receptions (post-wedding party). |
| West Coast jazz | West Coast jazz is a form of jazz music that developed around Los Angeles and San Francisco at about the same time as hard bop jazz was developing in New York City, in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| White note | On a keyboard instrument, a white note is one of the larger notes that lie below and around the black notes. |
| Whole consort | A whole consort is an instrumental ensemble that consists of instruments from the same family. For example, a set of viols played together would be considered a whole consort. |
| Whole note | In music, a whole note (American or "German" terminology) or semibreve (British or "classical" terminology) is a note represented by a hollow oval note head, like a half note (or minim), and no note stem. Its length is typically equal to four beats in 4/4 time. |
| Whole tone scale | In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole step. |
| Wind instrument | A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column of air. |
| Wind quintet | A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon). The term also applies to a composition for such a group. |
| Woodwind instrument | A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing (with very hard force) against an edge vibrating with air, such as a thin piece of wood known as a reed. Most of these instruments were originally made of wood, but some such as the saxophone and some flutes are now made of other materials such as metal or plastic resin. |
| World music | The term world music includes (1) Traditional music (sometimes called folk music or roots music) of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians or that are "closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin," including Western music (ie. Celtic music). (2) Other non-Western music (including non-Western popular music and non-Western classical music) World music does not include (1) Western popular music (2) Western Art music (ie. European classical music) |
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