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Musical notation

Collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium

Notes in a chord played in sequence

Musical reconceptualization of a previous work

Articulation (music)

Musical performance technique that affects the transition or continuity on notes

Music that lacks a tonal center or key

Time unit in rhythmic musical notation

Type of classical male vocal range

Tone of low frequency or range

Bass (voice type)

Type of classical male singing voice

Melodic and/or harmonic configuration at the end of a phrase, section, or piece of music

Type of classical music male singing voice in upper registers

Ensemble of singers

Harmonic set of three or more notes

Chord progression

A succession of musical chords

Chromatic scale

Musical scale with twelve pitches separated by semitone intervals

Circle of fifths

Relationship among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures, and the associated major and minor keys;geometrical representation of relationships among the 12 pitch classes of the chromatic scale in pitch class space

Live performance of music

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Consonance and dissonance

Categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds

Type of classical female singing voice

Polyphonic music with separate melodies

High classical male singing voice

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Person who plays recorded music for an audience

Dynamics (music)

Volume of a sound or note

Ethnomusicology

Study of music emphasizing cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions

Extension (music)

Pitches outside the tessitura of an instrument or performer

Accidental lowering the pitch of a note by one chromatic semitone

Function (music)

Specific, recognized role of each of the 7 tones and their chords in relation to the diatonic key

American award for achievements in music

Harmonic series (music)

Sequence of frequencies

Aspect of music

Hornbostel–Sachs

Musical instrument classification system

Interval (music)

Difference in pitch between two notes

Short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses

Tonic note and chord of a musical piece

Set of musical alterations

Short, constantly recurring musical phrase

Major and minor

Property of keys, scales, chords and music pieces

Diatonic scale made of seven notes

Company of instrumental musicians

Linear succession of musical tones in the foreground of a work of music

Aspect of music

Type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types

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Type of musical scale

Modulation (music)

Change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another

Short recurring musical phrase

Form of art using sound

Companies and individuals that create and sell music and make money off of sales

Study of the practices and possibilities of music

Short film integrating a song and imagery

Musical composition

Original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece

Musical ensemble

Group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name

Structure or plan of a piece of music

Musical improvisation

Spontaneous musical composition technique

Musical notation

Graphic writing of musical parameters

Terms for tuning an instrument and a systems of pitches

Person who composes, conducts or performs music

Scholarly analysis and research-based study of music

Musical note that is functionally not part of the current chord implied by the harmonic framework

Large instrumental ensemble

Study or practice of writing music for an orchestra

Ornament (music)

Musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line

Perceptual property in music ordering sounds from low to high

Psychology of music

Branch of both psychology and musicology

Vocal technique used with spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics

Record producer

Individual who oversees and manages the recording of an artist's music

Register (music)

Range of a musical note, set of pitches, melody, or instrument

Aspect of music

Ascending or descending sequence of musical tones

Musical notation for group singing

Accidental raising the pitch of a note by one chromatic semitone

Full musical score showing each part on a separate line or staff

Act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Musical composition for human voice with pitches and melodies

Classical singing voice with the highest vocal range

Musical notation to represent the pitch

Classical male singing voice

Specification of beats in a musical bar or measure

Arrangements of pitches or chords to induce a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, and attractions

Musical act playing the music of another

Musical interval

Twelve-tone technique

Musical composition method

Measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate

Decision-making consideration when arranging voices in musical composition

Group of voices with similar vocal ranges

Voicing (music)

Manner in which one distributes, or spaces, notes and chords among the various instruments or simultaneous vertical placement of notes in relation to each other

Form of singing