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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

1965 single by the Rolling Stones

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

1968 single by Otis Redding

...Baby One More Time

1998 single by Britney Spears

1880 concert overture by Tchaikovsky

20th-century classical music

21st-century Western classical music

Art music, in the contemporary classical tradition, that has been produced since the year 2000

Three-movement composition by John Cage

99 Bottles of Beer

Group or solo singing without instrumental sound

Musical by Marvin Hamlisch

A Day in the Life

Original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney

1965 studio album by John Coltrane

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)

Musical composition by Felix Mendelssohn

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

Hymn by Martin Luther

1969 studio album by the Beatles

Bellows-driven free-reed aerophone musical instrument

Adagio for Strings

Musical composition by Samuel Barber

Adagio in G minor

1958 musical work by Remo Giazotto

Adult contemporary music

Radio format and music genre

Advance Australia Fair

Official national anthem of Australia since 1984

West African music genre, distinct from Afrobeats

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi

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

Aleatoric music

Music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s)

All Along the Watchtower

1967 song by Bob Dylan

All You Need Is Love

1967 single by the Beatles

Also sprach Zarathustra

1896 symphonic poem by Richard Strauss

Alternative rock

Genre of rock music

Type of saxophone

American Pie (song)

1971 single by Don McLean

Analog synthesizer

Synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically

Song of celebration used as a symbol for a specific group

Appetite for Destruction

1987 debut studio album by Guns N’ Roses

Music of the Arab World

Are You Experienced

1967 studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Musical piece for a single voice as part of a larger work

Notes in a chord played in sequence

Musical reconceptualization of a previous work

Serious music, as opposed to popular or folk music

Subgenre of rock music

Articulation (music)

Musical performance technique that affects the transition or continuity on notes

1968 studio album by Van Morrison

Music that lacks a tonal center or key

Robert Burns poem set to traditional melody

Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

Composition by Bach and Gounod

Ave Maria (Schubert)

Song by Franz Schubert

Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

Choral work composed by Mozart, K. 618

Musical comedy by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty

Away in a Manger

English Christmas carol composed by William J. Kirkpatrick in 1895

1980 studio album by AC/DC

Background music

Music in a film, video game or other medium that establishes mood

Musical instrument

Russian stringed musical instrument

Music in the Balcan geographic area

Verse set to music

Ballades (Chopin)

Piano pieces by Chopin

Musical instrument

Time unit in rhythmic musical notation

Barbershop music

Type of vocal harmony

Type of classical male vocal range

Style of Western art music

Barrett's esophagus

Medical condition

Tone of low frequency or range

Bass (voice type)

Type of classical male singing voice

Drum, produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch

Electric plucked string instrument

Musical instrument

Battle Hymn of the Republic

American patriotic song written by Julia Ward Howe

1963 song by the Ronettes

Vocal persecution involving mouth, lips, tongue and voice to mimick drum machine

Subgenre of jazz music originated in the United States in mid-1940s

Percussion instrument

Musical culture of the Berber ethnic groups of North Africa

Music ensemble associated with jazz and Swing Era music

1983 single by Michael Jackson

1970 studio album by Miles Davis

Subgenre of heavy metal music

Blonde on Blonde

1966 studio album by Bob Dylan

Blue Moon of Kentucky

Original song written and composed by Bill Monroe

Bluegrass music

Genre of American roots music and sub-genre of country music

Musical form and music genre

Bohemian Rhapsody

1975 song by Queen

Orchestral composition by Maurice Ravel

Boris Godunov (opera)

Opera by Modest Mussorgsky

1975 studio album by Bruce Springsteen

Style of Brazilian music

Greek a plucked stringed instrument

Vocal group consisting of young males

Brandenburg Concertos

Collection of six works by Johann Sebastian Bach

Brass instrument

Class of musical instruments

Brazilian National Anthem

National anthem of Brazil

1990s UK pop culture movement

Brass musical instrument

Byzantine music

Music in the tradition of the Byzantine Empire

Cabaret (musical)

1966 musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb

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

Style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago

Minstrel song written and composed by Stephen Foster

Candle in the Wind

1973 single by Elton John

Musical composition technique

Vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment

Musical instrument of bells in the percussion family

Opera by Georges Bizet

Carmina Burana (Orff)

1937 cantata composed by Carl Orff

Music genre originating in southern India

Carol of the Bells

Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin

Type of classical music male singing voice in upper registers

1981 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Cavalleria rusticana

Opera by Pietro Mascagni

Struck idiophone operated by a keyboard

Cello Concerto (Elgar)

Musical work by Edward Elgar

Cello Suites (Bach)

Suites for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach

Form of classical music composed for a small group of instruments

Rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds

Children's music

Music mainly intended for children

Ensemble of singers

Harmonic set of three or more notes

Chord progression

A succession of musical chords

Christian music

Music expressing Christian life and faith

Christmas carol

Song or hymn on the theme of Christmas

Christmas music

Music associated with Christmas

Chromatic scale

Musical scale with twelve pitches separated by semitone intervals

Cinderella (Prokofiev)

Ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

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

Canadian news websites

Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)

Musical composition by Mozart

Classical music

Broad tradition of Western art music

Classical period (music)

Era of classical music (c. 1730–1820)

Musical instrument

Clavier-Übung III

Collection of organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach

Common practice period

Music history period (c. 1650 to 1900)

Company (musical)

1970 musical comedy

Live performance of music

Concerto for Two Violins (Bach)

BWV 1043 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Concierto de Aranjuez

Classical guitar concerto by Joaquín Rodrigo (1939)

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum

Consonance and dissonance

Categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds

Contemporary Christian music

Genre of modern popular music lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith

Contemporary classical music

Post-1945 period in classical music

Contemporary R&B

Rhythm and blues music genre

Musical instrument

Type of classical female singing voice

Woodwind musical instrument

Musical instrument

Polyphonic music with separate melodies

High classical male singing voice

American music genre

2014 compilation album by Steven Wilson

Csárdás (Monti)

1904 rhapsodical concert piece written by Vittorio Monti

Music genre originating from Cuba

Percussion instrument

Music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing

Genre of Jamaican popular music

1976 single by ABBA

Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)

1874 tone poem written by Camille Saint-Saëns

Opera by Richard Wagner

Extreme subgenre of heavy metal music

Decimomannu Air Base

Traditional Yuletide, Christmas and New Years' carol.

Der Ring des Nibelungen

Cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner

Der Rosenkavalier

Comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss

Deutschlandlied

National anthem of Germany

Double-headed Indian drum

Traditional Australian musical instrument

Comic operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Opera by Richard Wagner

Music drama by Richard Wagner, part of Der Ring des Nibelungen

Latin sequence, liturgical hymn

Person who plays recorded music for an audience

Discovery (Daft Punk album)

2001 studio album by Daft Punk

Popular American minstrel song

Style of jazz music

Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

Type of musical instrument of the percussion family

Type of electronic music

Electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds

Genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London

Dynamics (music)

Volume of a sound or note

Popular music genre

Egmont (Beethoven)

Incidental music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1787 play

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Electric guitar

Electrical string instrument

Electronic dance music

Brand category of electronic music

Electronic music

Genre of music that makes use of electronic instruments

Electronic musical instrument

Musical instrument that uses electronic circuits to generate sound

Music genre derivative of punk rock music

Enigma Variations

Musical composition by Edward Elgar

Entrance of the Gladiators

Military march by Julius Fučík

Ethnomusicology

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

Instrumental musical composition, usually short, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill

Brass instrument

Evita (musical)

1978 musical by Lloyd Webber and Rice

Exile on Main St.

1972 studio album by the Rolling Stones

Experimental music

Expressionist music

Western movement in music

Extension (music)

Pitches outside the tessitura of an instrument or performer

Falstaff (opera)

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Fantasia (musical form)

Musical interpretation rooted in improvisation

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Composition for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams

String instrument

Fiddler on the Roof

Song associated with a sports team

Original music written specifically to accompany a film, part of the film's soundtrack

Music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry

Symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius

Fitzwilliam Sonatas

Sonatas by Thurston Dart, based on works by Handel

Accidental lowering the pitch of a note by one chromatic semitone

Flight of the Bumblebee

Orchestral interlude by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Brass musical instrument

Musical instrument of the woodwind family

Folk music (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Song or chant usually sung at association football matches by fans

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development

Science funding in Europe

Type of brass instrument

French children's song

Contrapuntal musical form based on a subject that recurs in imitation

Function (music)

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

Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s

Composition for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven

Traditional ensemble music of Indonesia

2012 single by Psy

Topics referred to by the same term

Gee (Girls' Generation song)

2009 single by Girls' Generation

Standardized specification for music synthesizers adopting the MIDI protocol

Hindustani classical music

Pop music act featuring young women

Romantic ballet in two acts

Genre of heavy metal music

God Bless America

1938 song by Irving Berlin

1966 song by the Beach Boys

God Save the King

National anthem of the United Kingdom

Goldberg Variations

Keyboard work by Johann Sebastian Bach

Good King Wenceslas

Victorian Christmas carol

Good Vibrations

1966 single by the Beach Boys

Genre of music emphasizing Christian lyrics

Genre of rock music

GötterDÄmmerung (Die Ärzte tribute album)

1997 compilation album by various artists

American award for achievements in music

English folk song

Gregorian chant

Genre of electronic music originating in the United Kingdom

Genre of rock music

Cuban folk song

Fretted string instrument

1888 set of three compositions by Erik Satie

1960s counterculture rock musical

Hairspray (musical)

American musical

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)

1984 song by Leonard Cohen

Hamilton (musical)

2015 biographical musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Happy Birthday to You

Aggressive and fast subgenre of punk rock

Harmonic series (music)

Sequence of frequencies

Free reed wind musical instrument

Aspect of music

Harp (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Plucked-string keyboard instrument

Heartbreak Hotel

1956 single by Elvis Presley

Heavy metal music

Genre of rock music

Hello, Dolly! (musical)

1964 Broadway musical

1968 single by the Beatles

Highway 61 Revisited

1965 studio album by Bob Dylan

Himno Nacional Mexicano

National anthem of Mexico

Hindustani classical music

Art music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent

Rhythmic music accompanied by rap

Horn (instrument)

Family of wind instruments made of a tube

Hornbostel–Sachs

Musical instrument classification system

Hotel California

1976 single by the Eagles

Hound Dog (song)

1952 song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Genre of electronic dance music

Hungarian Dances (Brahms)

Johannes Brahms's set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1879

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Musical piece by Franz Liszt

Collection of music dating from approximately 1400 BC

2000 studio album by Linkin Park

Religious song for the purpose of adoration or prayer to address deity

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

1966 song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

I Walk the Line

Song written and composed by Johnny Cash, originally recorded by Johnny Cash and released in 1956

I Want to Hold Your Hand

Original song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

I Will Always Love You

1973 single by Dolly Parton

1978 single by Gloria Gaynor

Opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi

1994 studio album by Nas

1971 single by John Lennon

Impressionism in music

Movement in Western classical music

Impromptus (Schubert)

Series of eight piano pieces by Schubert

Song popularized by Glenn Miller

Incidental music

Musical composition for a play

Independent music

Music produced independently from commercial record labels

Indian classical music

Classical music from the Indian subcontinent

Genre of alternative pop music

Genre of rock music

Indigenous music

Both traditional and contemporary music of indigenous ethnic groups

Music without vocals

Interval (music)

Difference in pitch between two notes

Musical traditions of the Muslim world

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

1988 studio album by Public Enemy

James Bond Theme

Main theme music of the James Bond films

National anthem of India

Jaws (soundtrack)

1992 film score by John Williams

Musical style and genre

Jesus Christ Superstar

Rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice

Music and melodies of the Jewish people

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

American Christmas song written by James Lord Pierpont circa 1857

Johnny B. Goode

Song by Chuck Berry

1973 single by Dolly Parton

Joy to the World

1719 Christmas hymn by Isaac Watts

Japanese popular music genre

Judas Maccabaeus (Handel)

Oratorio by George Frideric Händel

Tonic note and chord of a musical piece

Set of musical alterations

Keyboard instrument

Musical instrument played using a keyboard

National anthem of Japan

1959 studio album by Miles Davis

Kinky Boots (musical)

Musically recited story in Indian traditions

Style of Jewish music

South Korean popular music genre

La Bamba (song)

Traditional Mexican folk song and dance

1895 opera by Giacomo Puccini

Spanish traditional folk song

La Marseillaise

National anthem of France

La mer (Debussy)

Orchestral composition by Claude Debussy

1853 opera by Giuseppe Verdi

1947 song by Édith Piaf

Land of Hope and Glory

English patriotic song composed by music by Edward Elgar with lyrics by A. C. Benson

L'Arlésienne (Bizet)

Incidental music composed by Georges Bizet for the 1872 play "L'Arlésienne" by Alphonse Daudet

Led Zeppelin IV

1971 studio album by Led Zeppelin

Short, constantly recurring musical phrase

Les Misérables (musical)

Musical based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name

Let's Get It On

Album by Marvin Gaye

British musical style of "light" orchestral music

Like a Rolling Stone

1965 single by Bob Dylan

Like a Virgin (song)

1984 song by Madonna

Music aesthetic

Lohengrin (opera)

Opera by Richard Wagner

1979 studio album by the Clash

Opera by Claudio Monteverdi

2002 single by Eminem

Love Will Tear Us Apart

1980 single by Joy Division

Soothing children's song

Lupang Hinirang

National anthem of the Philippines

Plucked string musical instrument

Ancient Greek string instrument

Set of symphonic poems composed by Bedřich Smetana

1993 single by Los del Río

Song by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

Madama Butterfly

Opera by Giacomo Puccini

Secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras

Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a

Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach

Major and minor

Property of keys, scales, chords and music pieces

Diatonic scale made of seven notes

Man of La Mancha

1965 American stage musical

Musical instrument in the lute family

Ragtime composition for piano by Scott Joplin

Musical genre, originally for marching

March of the Volunteers

National anthem of the People's Republic of China

National anthem of Spain

Company of instrumental musicians

Wooden percussion instrument struck with mallets

Form of sacred musical composition

Mass in B minor

Mass composed by J S Bach in 1749

Western music written during the Middle Ages

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

Memory (Cats song)

Song written and composed by Trevor Nunn and Andrew Lloyd Webber for the 1981 musical "Cats"

Messe de Nostre Dame

Mass setting composed by Guillaume de Machaut

Messiah (Handel)

1741 sacred oratorio by Handel

Metallica (album)

1991 studio album by Metallica

Aspect of music

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

Means of connecting electronic musical instruments

Form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials

Test conducted on June 27, 1985 by the United States Defense Nuclear Agency

Miserere (Allegri)

Setting of Psalm 51 by Gregorio Allegri

Missa Pange lingua

Mass setting by Josquin

Missa Papae Marcelli

Mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Missa solemnis (Beethoven)

1824 mass by Beethoven

Type of musical scale

Modernism (music)

Changes in musical form during the early 20th Century

Modulation (music)

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

Short recurring musical phrase

Form of art using sound

Classification of music by tradition or style

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

Music of Africa

Overview of musical traditions in Africa

Music of Argentina

Music and musical traditions of Argentina

Music of Australia

Overview of music traditions in Australia

Music of Austria

Overview of musical traditions in Austria

Music of Brazil

Music and musical traditions of Brazil

Music of Canada

Overview of music traditions in the country of Canada

Cultural musical history

Music and musical traditions of Cuba

Musical culture of Egypt

Music of Ethiopia

Musical tradition of Ethiopia

Music of France

Overview of music traditions in France

Music of Germany

Music of Hawaii

Overview of musical traditions in India

Music of Indonesia

Music and musical traditions of Indonesia

Music and musical traditions of Iran

Overview of music traditions in Italy

Traditional music of the Korean peninsula

Music of Latin America

Collective term for the dances, rhythms and styles of music from Latin America

Music of Mexico

Music and musical traditions of Mexico

Music of Nigeria

Overview of music activities in Nigeria

Music of Poland

Overview of music traditions in Poland

Music of Polynesia

Music of Russia

Overview of musical traditions in Russia

Music of South Africa

Music and musical traditions of Spain

Music of Star Wars

Music of the Star Wars film franchise

History of the music of Sudan

Music of Thailand

Music and musical traditions of Thailand

Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Music of the Netherlands

Overview of musical traditions in the Netherlands

Music of the United Kingdom

Aspect of British culture

Music of the United States

Overview of music traditions in the USA

Music of Turkey

Overview of music traditions in Turkey

Music of Vietnam

Music and musical traditions of Vietnam

Music sequencer

Device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music

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 instrument

Device created or adapted to make musical sounds

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

Musique concrète

Method of electroacoustic music

Brand of background music

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2010 studio album by Kanye West

1956 musical based on Shaw's "Pygmalion"

1965 single by the Who

My Old Kentucky Home

19th-century sentimental ballad by Stephen Foster

Song popularized by Frank Sinatra

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

National anthem

Song that represents a country or sovereign state

National anthem of Russia

National anthem of Russia

Neoclassicism (music)

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

1977 studio album by Sex Pistols

1991 studio album by Nirvana

1970s music genre

Night on Bald Mountain

Composition by Modest Mussorgsky

No Woman, No Cry

1975 single by Bob Marley and the Wailers

Musical composition inspired by the night

Nocturnes (Chopin)

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

Music genre; type of farcical or nonsensical singing or instrumentals

Subgenre of alternative metal

Nuper rosarum flores

Motet by Guillaume Du Fay

Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang

1993 single by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg

National anthem of Canada

Musical instrument of the woodwind family

Ceramic wind instrument

1997 album by Radiohead

Old Folks at Home

1851 minstrel song written by Stephen Foster

OPERA experiment

Large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists

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

Orpheus in the Underworld

Opéra bouffon by Jacques Offenbach

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Over the Rainbow

Song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg published in 1939

Instrumental introduction to an opera, ballet, or oratorio

Pachelbel's Canon

Musical composition by Pachelbel

Musical instrument, typically made from bamboo

Paranoid (album)

1970 studio album by Black Sabbath

Composition generally of humorous or satirical intent in which turns of phrase or other features characteristic of another composer or type of composition are employed and made to appear ridiculous

Opera by Richard Wagner

Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)

Composition for violin by Johan Sebastian Bach

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach

Pavane (Fauré)

1887 composition by Gabriel Fauré

Peer Gynt (Grieg)

Incidental music by Edvard Grieg to Ibsen's play

Percussion instrument

Type of musical instrument that produces a sound by being hit

Persian traditional music

Aspect of Iranian culture

1966 studio album by the Beach Boys

Peter and the Wolf

Musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936

Petrushka (ballet)

1911 ballet by Igor Stravinsky, Michel Fokine and Alexandre Benois, Ballets Russes

Piano (company)

Piano Concerto (Grieg)

Concerto by Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)

Piano concerto by Frédéric Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)

Composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

Concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)

Work by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)

Beethoven's last completed piano concerto.

Piano Sonata in B minor (Liszt)

Composition for piano by Franz Liszt

Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart)

Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

Piano sonata written by Beethoven in 1801

Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)

Sonata by Chopin

Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)

1798 sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano sonatas (Beethoven)

Piano sonatas written by Beethoven

Pictures at an Exhibition

Suite for piano in ten movements by Modest Mussorgsky

Wind instrument controlled by keyboard

Perceptual property in music ordering sounds from low to high

Pomp and Circumstance Marches

Series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar

Rock genre that combines punk rock with elements of pop music

Music genres distributed to large audiences and considered to have wide appeal

Opera by George Gershwin

Postmodern music

Music of the postmodern era, or that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism

Prelude (music)

Musical work and musical form

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Symphonic poem by Claude Debussy

Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)

Piano composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Progressive music

Type of music that emphasizes expansion of form and stylistic variety

Song that is associated with a movement for social change

Psychedelic music

Range of popular music styles and genres

Psychology of music

Branch of both psychology and musicology

Free-reed organ musical instrument

Genre of rock music

Song first recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967

Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia

1848 march by Johann Strauss Sr.

Melodic mode of improvisation in Indian music

Music genre originating in Algeria

Rapper's Delight

1979 single by The Sugarhill Gang

Vocal technique used with spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics

Record producer

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

Recorder (musical instrument)

Woodwind instrument

Music genre from Jamaica

Register (music)

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

Religious music

Music intended for religious purpose

Renaissance music

Western musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries

American rock musical, based on La Bohème

Mass celebrated for the repose of deceased people's souls

Requiem (Fauré)

1880s Requiem Mass by Gabriel Fauré

Requiem (Mozart)

Mass composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna in 1791

Requiem (Verdi)

Musical setting of the Roman Catholic funeral mass by Giuseppe Verdi

1965 single by Otis Redding

Revolver (Beatles album)

1966 studio album by the Beatles

Rhapsody (music)

Rhapsody in Blue

1924 composition by George Gershwin

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Concertante by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Aspect of music

Rhythm and blues

Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s

Ride of the Valkyries

Musical composition by Richard Wagner

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Genre of popular music

Rock Around the Clock

American early rock and roll song

Broad genre of popular music

Music of the Romantic period

Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)

1935 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)

Overture-fantasy composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Rule, Britannia!

British patriotic song; music by Thomas Arne, 1740

Rumours (album)

1977 studio album by Fleetwood Mac

Collection of one thousand names ascribed a Hindu deity

Saint Louis Blues (song)

1914 Song by W. C. Handy

Latin American dance music genre

Samba (software)

Free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol

Sampler (musical instrument)

Device that records and plays back samples

Neapolitan song written and composed by Teodoro Cottrau

Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)

1977 soundtrack album by Bee Gees and various artists

Single-reed woodwind instrument

Ascending or descending sequence of musical tones

Scarborough Fair (ballad)

Traditional English song

Vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all

Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Symphonic poem by Rimsky-Korsakov

Genre of popular music

Schubert's last sonatas

Last major compositions for solo piano by Franz Schubert

Schubert's song cycles

Rhythmical work song sung on sailing vessels

Seikilos epitaph

Oldest surviving complete musical composition

Selected Ambient Works 85–92

1992 studio album by Aphex Twin

Sentimental ballad

Musical performance delivered in honor of someone or something

Musical method or technique of composition

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1967 studio album by the Beatles

Musical notation for group singing

Accidental raising the pitch of a note by one chromatic semitone

Shchedryk (song)

1916 Ukrainian song by Mykola Leontovych

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

1927 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II

Siegfried (opera)

Opera by Richard Wagner

Sign of the Times (Harry Styles song)

2017 single by Harry Styles

1818 Christmas song

Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)

1936 song by Louis Prima

Singer-songwriter

Musician who writes, composes, and sings their own material

Act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Sitar (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Topics referred to by the same term

Slavonic Dances

Cycle of of 16 piano pieces by Antonín Dvořák

Smells Like Teen Spirit

1991 song by Nirvana

Type of percussion instrument

Solomon (Handel)

Oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel

Somewhere (song)

1957 song from West Side Story

Type of instrumental composition

Musical composition for human voice with pitches and melodies

Classical singing voice with the highest vocal range

Soul music (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Recorded music accompanying a production such as a film

Brass musical instrument

South Pacific (musical)

1949 Broadway musical

Musical composition by Thomas Tallis

A music genre created by generations of African-Americans

St Matthew Passion

1727 sacred oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach

Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)

Composition by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Musical notation to represent the pitch

Stairway to Heaven

1971 song by Led Zeppelin

Stand by Your Man

1968 Tammy Wynette song

Straight Outta Compton

1989 studio album by N.W.A

1939 song made famous by Billie Holiday

Strawberry Fields Forever

Song by The Beatles

String instrument

Class of musical instruments with vibrating strings

String Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven)

String quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn)

Six string quartets composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797 or 1798

String Quintet (Schubert)

Composition for string quintet by Franz Schubert

String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini)

1775 quintet by Luigi Boccherini

Sub-Saharan African music traditions

Traditional sound-based art forms developed by sub-Saharan African peoples

Ordered set of classic musical pieces in a concert

Suite bergamasque

Piano composition by Claude Debussy

Sukiyaki (song)

1961 song by Kyu Sakamoto

Super Mario Bros. theme

Music theme from a video game

Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

African-American spiritual song

Sympathy for the Devil

1968 single by The Rolling Stones

Piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section

Symphonie fantastique

Program symphony by Hector Berlioz

Type of extended musical composition

Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)

Symphony by Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

Symphony in four movements composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius)

Symphony in four movements composed by Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)

Work by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)

Symphony by Henryk Gorecki

Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

Orchestral symphony with organ by Camille Saint-Saëns (completed in 1886)

Symphony No. 4 (Brahms)

Symphony by Johannes Brahms

Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)

1788 work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Last symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)

Musical composition by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)

Symphony by Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)

Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)

Symphony by Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)

Symphony by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)

Musical work; symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)

Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony

Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)

Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)

1941 symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)

Symphony by Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)

Symphony by Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)

1822 incomplete symphony by Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

1824 symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner)

Symphony by Anton Bruckner

Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)

1893 symphony by Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)

Symphony by Franz Schubert

Electronic musical instrument

Music genre in which the synthesizer is a key instrument

Japanese percussion instruments

Jazz standard recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet

Take the "A" Train

1941 song by Billy Strayhorn

Meter, time cycle measure in Indian music

Style of music originating in South America

Tannhäuser (opera)

Opera by Richard Wagner

Tapestry (Carole King album)

1971 studio album by Carole King

Genre of electronic dance music

Classical male singing voice

Opera by Jules Massenet

That'll Be the Day

1957 single by The Crickets

Mass composed by Karl Jenkins

The Art of Fugue

Musical work by Johann Sebastian Bach

The Barber of Seville

1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini

The Beatles (album)

1968 studio album by The Beatles

The Blue Danube

1866 waltz by Johann Strauss II

The Carnival of the Animals

1886 musical suite by Camille Saint-Saëns

The Creation (Haydn)

Oratorio composed by Joseph Haydn

The Dark Side of the Moon

1973 studio album by Pink Floyd

The Entertainer (rag)

Piano rag by Scott Joplin

1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky

The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Set of four violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi

The Girl from Ipanema

Song by Antônio Carlos Jobim

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack)

1966 soundtrack album by Ennio Morricone

The House of the Rising Sun

American traditional folk song popularized in 1964

The Internationale

Left-wing anthem

The Lion King (musical)

1997 stage musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi

The Magic Flute

1791 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Marriage of Figaro

Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)

Single by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five featuring Melle Mel and Duke Bootee

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

1998 studio album by Lauryn Hill

The Moon Represents My Heart

1977 Song by Teresa Teng

Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Orchestral suite by Gustav Holst

The Producers (musical)

2001 musical written by Mel Brooks

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

1972 studio album by David Bowie

The Rite of Spring

Ballet by Igor Stravinsky

The Ruins of Athens

Set of incidental pieces by Beethoven

The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)

Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Song of the Volga Boatmen

Russian folk song

The Star-Spangled Banner

National anthem of the United States

The Tales of Hoffmann

Opera by Jacques Offenbach

The Threepenny Opera

1928 musical play by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)

Original song written, composed, and performed by Bob Dylan

The Twist (song)

The Velvet Underground & Nico

1967 studio album by the Velvet Underground and Nico

1979 studio album by Pink Floyd

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Collection of keyboard music by J.S. Bach

Musical composition written specifically for some other work, e.g. a TV or radio show

There's No Business Like Show Business

Original song written and composed by Irving Berlin; from the 1946 musical "Annie Get Your Gun"

This Land Is Your Land

Folk song by Woody Guthrie

Subgenre of heavy metal

Thriller (album)

1982 studio album by Michael Jackson

Specification of beats in a musical bar or measure

Large percussion musical instrument which produces a definite pitch

Collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City, US

To Pimp a Butterfly

2015 studio album by Kendrick Lamar

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Organ music by Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976

United States federal law regulating the introduction of new and existing chemicals

Traditional pop

Western popular music that generally predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s

Genre of electronic dance music

Subgenre of hip hop

Musical act playing the music of another

Tristan und Isolde

Opera by Richard Wagner

Musical interval

Type of brass instrument

Composer and performer of lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages

Musical instrument

Tuba (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

1973 studio album by Mike Oldfield

Turkish March (Beethoven)

Well-known classical march theme from The Ruins of Athens

Twelve-tone technique

Musical composition method

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Children's song

Member of the guitar family

Unchained Melody

1955 song by Alex North and Hy Zaret

Vessel-shaped flute

Musical instrument

Video game music

Soundtrack or background music accompanying video games

Bowed string instrument

Wooden bowed string instrument

Violin Concerto (Beethoven)

Concerto composed by Beethoven in 1806

Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Composition by Felix Mendelssohn, 1844

Violin Concerto (Sibelius)

Concerto by Jean Sibelius

Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)

Concerto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bruch)

Violin concerto by Max Bruch

A style of vocal music

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

Waltzing Matilda

Australian song

1996 single by Spice Girls

Three suites by Handel

Waterloo (song)

1974 single by ABBA

We Are the Champions

1977 Queen song

We Are the World

1985 charity song

We Shall Overcome

Protest song of the civil rights movement

We Will Rock You

1977 Queen song

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Traditional English Christmas song

Wedding March (Mendelssohn)

Composition by Felix Mendelssohn

We'll Meet Again

Song written and composed by Hughie Charles and Ross Parker, first recorded by Vera Lynn

West Side Story

Stage musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Western concert flute

Transverse woodwind instrument made of metal or wood

What a Wonderful World

1967 song recorded by Louis Armstrong

What's Going On (album)

1971 album by Marvin Gaye

When the Saints Go Marching In

American gospel hymn

White Christmas (song)

Original song written and composed by Irving Berlin

Wichita Lineman

1968 single by Glen Campbell

Wicked (musical)

2003 musical by Stephen Schwartz

Wiegenlied (Brahms)

Song composed by Johannes Brahms

William Tell (opera)

Opera by Gioachino Rossini

Wind instrument

Class of musical instruments with air resonator

Song cycle composed by Franz Schubert

Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)

1975 studio album by Pink Floyd

Woodwind instrument

Family of musical wind instruments

Work song (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Umbrella term for traditional or indigenous music not originating in Europe or North America

Wooden keyboard percussion instrument

Well-known Anglo-American song

Yesterday (song)

1965 single by the Beatles

Form of singing

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

1964 single by The Righteous Brothers

Class of stringed musical instruments