Important music terms and their meanings
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| A cappella | show 🗑
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| Accelerando | show 🗑
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| Adagio | show 🗑
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| show | lively and fast tempo
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| Cadence | show 🗑
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| show | The melody or tune is imitated by individual parts at regular intervals.
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| Chord | show 🗑
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| Chromatic scale | show 🗑
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| show | a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff
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| Coda | show 🗑
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| Consonance | show 🗑
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| Dissonance | show 🗑
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| Dynamics | show 🗑
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| Enharmonic | show 🗑
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| show | A style of male singing where by partial use of the vocal chords, the voice is able to reach the pitch of a female.
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| show | To hold a tone or rest held beyond the written value at the discretion of the performer.
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| Flat | show 🗑
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| show | Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
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| Instrumentation | show 🗑
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| Interval | show 🗑
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| Key signature | show 🗑
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| Legato | show 🗑
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| show | One of the two modes of the tonal system. Music written in major keys have a positive affirming character.
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| Measure | show 🗑
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| show | Often used in overtures, a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
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| show | One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark, melancholic mood.
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| show | A symbol in sheet music that returns a note to its original pitch after it has been raised or lowered.
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| show | A single line of music played or sung. A musical sentence.
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| show | The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
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| show | The element of music pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
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| Round | show 🗑
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| Rubato | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
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| show | Short detached notes, as opposed to legato.
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| show | Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on which musical notation is written.
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| Tempo | show 🗑
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| Timbre | show 🗑
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| Time Signature | show 🗑
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| Tonality | show 🗑
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| show | The first tone of a scale also known as a home note.
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| Treble | show 🗑
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| show | Three note chords consisting of a root, third, and fifth.
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