Music Vocab - Definitions
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- 1. [n.] (Music) combination of harmonizing notes
- 4. [n.] tone one half step lower than another (Music)
- 5. [n.] large brass wind instrument having valves and producing tones in the low range; powerful organ reed stop; ancient Roman trumpet (Musical)
- 8. [n.] one of several musical wind instruments made of brass tubing with a flared bell at the end and having a strong and penetrating tone
- 12. [n.] mouth organ, small musical wind instrument played by inhaling and exhaling into a row of holes
- 14. [n.] curved disc shaped percussion instrument made of brass (often used in pairs)
- 15. [n.] deep or low-pitched voice; musical instrument; type of fish [adj.] low-pitched, deep, resonant (Music)
- 19. [n.] musical sound, single key
- 20. [n.] rhythm, beat
- 21. [n.] musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars which are sounded by striking with small hammers
- 23. [n.] woodwind instrument
- 24. [n.] small flute that produces a sound one octave higher than a flute; one who plays piccolo
- 25. [n.] tool, implement; device, appliance; musical instrument; agent, means; document
- 28. [n.] type of woodwind instrument with a conical metal body (Music)
- 30. [n.] large four-stringed instrument of the violin family that is played with a bow while resting upright between the player's knees
- 32. [n.] highest singing voice of women or boys; part for such a voice; soprano singer
- 34. [v.] utter words melodiously, make musical sounds with the voice (often with musical accompaniment)
- 36. [n.] musical instrument in the guitar family
- 38. [n.] one who plays a musical instrument professionally; composer of music
- 39. [n.] musical instrument with a keyboard and pedals
- 40. [n.] sign placed upon a staff to indicate the pitch of notes (Music)
- 41. [n.] four-stringed instrument from the violin family that is larger than a violin but smaller than a cello and is held under the chin
- 43. [n.] percussion instrument; sound produced by the playing such an instrument
- 44. [n.] poem having the form and musical quality of a song; words of a song
- 45. [n.] short musical composition that is intended to by sung, ballad
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- 2. [n.] beat, regular pulse or accent (in music, etc.); meter, recurrent beat in poetry or prose; cyclical pattern of events or elements
- 3. [n.] large stringed instrument with an upright triangular frame which is played by plucking the strings with the fingers
- 4. [n.] musical wind instrument; channel, groove (Architecture, Furniture)
- 5. [n.] melody; state of having the correct musical pitch; harmony; proper adjustment
- 6. [n.] strike; rhythm; tapping;news story that is published earlier than in the rival newspapers (Journalism)
- 7. [n.] adult male singing voice between alto and bass; purport, meaning; character; course
- 9. [n.] musical wind instrument made of metal tubing bent twice in the form of a "U" and having a slide for altering pitch
- 10. [n.] eight day holiday period; eight line stanza in poem; musical note at interval; grouping of eight (Music)
- 11. [n.] make-up, constitution; something which has been composed (i.e. music); essay
- 13. [n.] hand-held keyboard instrument; concertina
- 16. [n.] (Music) lowest female voice, contralto; highest male voice, countertenor; singer with an alto voice; piece of music written for an alto voice
- 17. [n.] stringed musical instrument which has four strings and is played with a bow while held under the chin
- 18. [n.] male singing voice (between tenor and bass)
- 22. [n.] person who composes musical compositions; author, writer, poet
- 26. [n.] pear-shaped musical instrument with four or more pairs of strings
- 27. [n.] large woodwind instrument
- 29. [n.] (Music) wind instrument resembling a horn (usually brass instruments)
- 31. [n.] musical instrument that makes sound by pressing air through a system of graduated pipes; any instrument that makes sound similar to an organ (but without the use of pipes)
- 33. [n.] six or twelve-stringed musical instrument with a long fretted neck
- 35. [n.] one who sings, one who utters words melodiously; songbird; poet
- 37. [n.] musical drama in which the actors sing their parts (rather then speaking them) to the accompaniment of an orchestra; musical and dramatic genre which includes opera; musical composition for an opera; opera house
- 38. [n.] pleasing tune, tuneful song; principal part in a harmonic composition; speech intonation
- 42. [n.] double-reed woodwind instrument having a high and penetrating tone