Musical Vocabulary

a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument played with keys.

A bagpipe is a musical instrument that's played by blowing into a bag through a pipe. The bagpipes are commonly associated with Scotland.

a narrative poem of popular origin typically with verses and choruses often set to music (e.g. 'The Ballad of John and Yoko')

a stringed instrument that has long neck and circular body

a musical composition for voices and orchestra

a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice

a large stringed instrument played sitting with a bow

a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously

a single-reed instrument with a straight tube

based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music

unpleasant sounds, some musicians purposely add dissonance to create unexpected sound, others, like someone who just started drum lessons creates dissonance by accident.

of or relating to the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris, to their Doric dialect of Greek, or to their culture

two performers or singers who perform together

an extra performance in response to audience demand

a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch

a group of musicians playing or singing together

a male singing voice with artificially high tones

a short lively tune played on brass instruments

the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale

a small rectangular instrument into which air is blown

a short, catchy, often comic verse or song

a stringed instrument related to the lute

a standard protocol for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound