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1 Musical terms A-Z

Languages in this order.

• UK - British English (where it differs from American English)
• ES - Spanish
• I - Italian
• F - French
• D - German
• NL - Dutch
• DK - Danish
• S - Swedish
• FI - Finnish

• A
• a due
• accelerando
• accent
• accessory
• acciaccatura
• accidental
• adagio
• al fine
• al niente
• alla breve
• allegro
• alteration
• alto
• alto clef
• ambitus
• anacrusis
• ancient minor scale
• andante
• appoggiatura
• arpeggio
• arrastre
• articulation
• ascending interval
• augmentation
• augmented interval
• autograph
• B
• backfall
• bar
• bar line
• baritone
• baritone clef
• bass
• bass clef
• beam
• beat
• beat repeat
• bind
• brace
• bracket
• brass
• breath mark
• breve
• C
• C clef
• cadence
• cadenza
• caesura
• canon
• cent
• central C
• chord
• chord grid
• chromatic scale
• chromaticism
• church mode
• clef
• cluster
• comma
• common meter
• Common Practice Period
• common time
• complement
• compound interval
• compound meter
• compound time
• concert pitch
• conjunct movement
• consonance
• contralto
• copying music
• counterpoint
• countertenor
• crescendo
• cue-notes
• custos
• cut time
• D
• da capo
• dal niente
• dal segno
• decrescendo
• descending interval
• diatonic scale
• didymic comma
• diminished interval
• diminuendo
• diminution
• direct
• disjunct movement
• dissonance
• dissonant interval
• divisio
• doit
• dominant
• dominant ninth chord
• dominant seventh chord
• dorian mode
• dot (augmentation dot)
• dotted note
• double appoggiatura
• double bar line
• double dotted note
• double flat
• double sharp
• double time signature
• double trill
• duple meter
• duplet
• duration
• dynamics
• E
• ecclesiastical mode
• eighth note
• eighth rest
• elision
• embellishment
• engraving
• enharmonic
• equal temperament
• expression mark
• extender line
• F
• F clef
• fall
• feathered beam
• fermata
• fifth
• figured bass
• fine
• fingering
• flag
• flageolet
• flat
• forefall
• forte
• fourth
• Frenched score
• Frenched staff
• Frenched staves
• fugue
• functional harmony
• G
• G clef
• glissando
• grace notes
• grand staff
• grave
• gruppetto
• H
• hairpin
• half note
• half rest
• harmonic cadence
• harmonics
• harmony
• hemiola
• high bass clef
• homophony
• hook
• hymn meter
• incomplete dominant seventh chord
• interval
• inversion
• inverted interval
• just intonation
• key
• key signature
• Kievan notation
• laissez vibrer
• largo
• leading note
• ledger line
• legato
• legato curve
• leger line
• ligature
• lilypond
• line
• loco
• long appoggiatura
• longa
• lyric tie
• lyrics
• major
• major interval
• maxima
• meantone temperament
• measure
• measure repeat
• mediant
• melisma
• melisma line
• melodic cadence
• mensural notation
• mensuration sign
• mensurstrich
• meter
• metronome
• metronome mark
• metronomic indication
• mezzo
• mezzo-soprano
• middle C
• minor
• minor interval
• mixolydian mode
• mode
• modulation
• mordent
• motif
• motive
• movement
• multi-measure rest
• natural
• neighbor tones
• ninth
• non-legato
• note
• note head
• note names
• note value
• octavation
• octave
• octave mark
• octave marking
• octave sign
• ornament
• ossia
• part
• pause
• pennant
• percent repeat
• percussion
• perfect interval
• phrase
• phrasing
• piano
• pickup
• pitch
• pizzicato
• polymeter
• polymetric
• polymetric time signature
• polyphony
• portato
• power chord
• presto
• proportion
• Pythagorean comma
• quadruplet
• quality
• quarter note
• quarter rest
• quarter tone
• quintuplet
• rallentando
• relative key
• repeat
• rest
• rhythm
• ritardando
• ritenuto
• scale
• scale degree
• scordatura
• score
• second
• semibreve
• semitone
• seventh
• sextolet
• sextuplet
• shake
• sharp
• simile
• simile mark
• simple meter
• sixteenth note
• sixteenth rest
• sixth
• sixty-fourth note
• sixty-fourth rest
• slash repeat
• slur
• solmization
• sonata
• sonata form
• song texts
• soprano
• staccato
• staff
• staves
• stem
• stringendo
• strings
• strong beat
• subdominant
• submediant
• subtonic
• sul G
• superdominant
• supertonic
• symphony
• syncopation
• syntonic comma
• system
• temperament
• tempo indication
• tenor
• tenth
• tenuto
• third
• thirty-second note
• thirty-second rest
• thorough bass
• tie
• time
• time signature
• tone
• tonic
• transposing instrument
• transposition
• treble clef
• tremolo
• triad
• trill
• triple meter
• triplet
• tritone
• tuning fork
• tuplet
• turn
• unison
• upbeat
• voice
• volta
• vowel transition
• weak beat
• whole note
• whole rest
• whole tone
• woodwind