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Unless specified, the terms are Italian or English. The list can never be complete: some terms are common, and others are used only occasionally, and new ones are coined from time to time. Some composers prefer terms from their own language rather than the standard terms listed here.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Tag (barbershop music) Tarantella Napoletana; Tasto solo; Tempo; Tenor; Terp (music industry jargon) Territory band; Terzschritt; Tetrad (music) Text declamation; Thirty-two-bar form; Titling; Tone (musical instrument) Tonus peregrinus; Treble voice; Triad (music) Trumpet voluntary; Tutti
"Slowly but steadily." Comes before other terms; e.g. poco a poco crescendo ("increasing little by little") ma non tanto: but not so much: Comes after other terms; e.g. adagio ma non tanto ("not quite at ease") ma non troppo: but not too much: Comes after other terms; e.g. allegro ma non troppo ("not too joyful") Meno: less
List of Italian musical terms used in English; Glossary of Italian music; J. Glossary of jazz and popular music This page was last ...
List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual 15 equal temperament: 15-tet scale on C. Play ⓘ — — — 15 — — — 16 equal temperament: 16-tet scale on C. Play ⓘ — — — 16 — — — 17 equal ...
The most common tuplet [9] is the triplet (German Triole, French triolet, Italian terzina or tripletta, Spanish tresillo).Whereas normally two quarter notes (crotchets) are the same duration as a half note (minim), three triplet quarter notes have that same duration, so the duration of a triplet quarter note is 2 ⁄ 3 the duration of a standard quarter note.
This glossary includes terms for musical instruments, playing or singing techniques, amplifiers, effects units, sound reinforcement equipment, and recording gear and techniques which are widely used in jazz and popular music. Most of the terms are in English, but in some cases, terms from other languages are encountered (e.g. to do an "encore ...