List of basic music topics
Music is a human expression in the medium of time using the structures of sounds or tones and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre. Basic topics in music include:
General topics
Music theory – Musical acoustics – Band (music) – Composition – Ensemble – Genre – Instrument – Keyboard – Mode – Musician – Music and politics – Music history – Music lessons – Music technology – Musical notation – Musical terminology – Tuning
History of music
Main articles: History of music and Music history
Music industry topics
- Main article: Music industry
People
- A&R – ASCAP – Arranger –
Band manager – Booker – BMI – Composer – Copyright collective – MCPS –
Musical ensemble – Musician – Musicians' Union –
publisher –PRS – Record label – Record producer – Record manufacturer – Record distributor – Road crew ("roadies") – Singer – Songwriter –Performance rights organisation – Tour promoter
Ensembles
- Main articles: Musical ensemble and list of musical ensembles
Band – Choir – Concert
band – Duet –
Genres of music
- Main articles: Musical genre and List of musical genres
Examples of genres: Blues – Classical – Country – Dub –
Electronic – Electronic dance –
Electronica – Funk – Gospel –
Music by region
| Music of Africa | |
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| Sovereign states | Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic ·
Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire
(Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · |
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autonomies and other territories |
Canary Islands (Spain) · Ceuta (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte (France) · Melilla (Spain) · Puntland · Réunion (France) · St. Helena (UK) · Socotra (Yemen) · Somaliland · Southern Sudan · Western Sahara · Zanzibar (Tanzania) |
| Music of North America | ||
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| Sovereign states | Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama* · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago* · United States |  |
other territories |
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| * Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (South America). | ||
| Music of South America | ||
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| Sovereign states | Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama* · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago* ·
Uruguay · |
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| Aruba* (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands (UK) · French Guiana (France) · Netherlands Antilles* (Netherlands) · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) | ||
| * Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the
Americas ( |
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| Music of Asia | |
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| Sovereign
states and other territories |
Afghanistan · |
| 1countries spanning more than one continent | |
| Music of Europe | |
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| Sovereign states | |
autonomies, and other territories |
Abkhazia2 · Adjara1 · Akrotiri and Dhekelia ·
Åland · Azores · Crimea · Faroe
Islands · Gagauzia · Gibraltar · Guernsey ·
Jan Mayen ·
Jersey · Kosovo ·
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1 Entirely in Southwest Asia; included here because of cultural, political and historical association with Europe. 2 Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the definition of the border between Europe and Asia. 3 Mostly in Asia. 4 Entirely in the African Plate, included here because of cultural, political and historical association with Europe. 5 Only recognised by Turkey. |
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| Music of Oceania | |
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| Australasia |  Australia · Norfolk Island · Christmas Island · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · New Zealand |
| Melanesia |  |
| Micronesia |  |
| Polynesia |  |
| 1 countries spanning more than one continent | |
Musical compositions
Types of musical pieces and compositions
- Main article: Musical form
- Single-movement forms: Strophic form (AA...) – Binary form (AB) – Ternary form less often tertiary (ABA) – Arch form (ABCBA)
- Multi-movement forms: Ballet – Cantata – Chorale –
Concerto – Dance – Etude – Fantasia – Fugue –Mass –Opera – Oratorio –Prelude – Requiem –Rhapsody –Sonata – Suite – Symphonic poem – Symphony
Sections of a piece or composition
- Main article: Section
- Introduction – Exposition – Recapitulation – Verse – Refrain (chorus) – Conclusion – Coda – Fadeout – Bridge – Interlude
Musical skills and procedures
Absolute pitch – Ear training – Fingering – Learning music by ear – Modulation – Numerical sight-singing – Practice – Relative pitch – Sight reading – Transposition – Tuning – Virtuosity
Vocal ranges
- Main article: Vocal range
Female ranges
Male ranges
- Boy soprano
Sopranist – Alto – Tenor – Baritenor –Baritone – Bass-baritone – Bass
Instruments
- Main articles: Musical instrument and
List of musical instruments
Wind instruments – LamellOphones – Percussion instruments – String instruments – Voice – Electronic instruments – Keyboard instruments
See also the List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number
Aspects and components of music
- Main articles: Aspects of music, music theory, music notation, and musical terminology, Dynamics (music)
A cappella – Ad libitum – Basso – Basso continuo – Cent – Circle of fifths – Clef –
Compound metre – Crescendo –
Diminuendo – Intonation –
Fundamental aspects
- European classical school:
Melody – Harmony – Rhythm – Tone color – Form
Primary aspects
- Timbre: Tone color and Articulation
Secondary aspects
- Structure: Motive, Subphrase, Phrase, Phrase group, Period, Section, Exposition, Repetition, Variation, Development, Textural continuity
- Texture: homophony, polyphony, heterophony, and simultaneity
- Style: is what distinguishes an individual composer or group, period, genre, region, or manner of performance
Notes, chords and intervals
Added tone chord – Augmentation – Augmented chord –Blue note –Chord progression – Diminished chord – Dominant – Fifth – Flatted fifth – Fourth –Hexachord – List of major chord shapes for guitar –Major chord – Major second – Major seventh – Major sixth – Major third – Minor chord – Minor second – Minor seventh – Minor sixth – Minor third – Octave – Perfect fifth – Perfect fourth – Power chord – Second – Seventh – Shape note – Sixth – Third – Triad –Wolf interval
Scales
- Main article:
Scale
- Bohlen-Pierce scale – Chromatic scale –
Diatonic scale –
Diminished scale – Major scale – Minor scale –Pentatonic scale
Ornaments
- Main article: Ornament
- Acciaccatura – Appoggiatura – Glissando – Mordent – Tremolo – Trill – Turn
See also
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