Musical Terminology

The musical term, "dynamics," refers to the volume at which the performer should play the music. For example, "forte" means loud, while "piano" means soft and "crescendo" means to get gradually louder, while "decrescendo" means to get gradually softer. Dynamic terms mostly originate from the Italian language.

A pulse is the basic beat in music that is felt and established by the specified time signature. It is the "musical heartbeat."

There are no music terms used in the Little Fugue in g minor (BWV 578).

"Line" could mean several things.

The notes that a voice sings or an instrument plays in a piece of music is either a melody line or a harmony line.

A written musical staff is made up of lines and spaces.

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"In the Russian style" is an English equivalent of the Italian phrase nel modo russico. The masculine singular phrase most famously references tempo-related musical directions written by Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Mar. 21, 1839-Mar. 28, 1881) for his piano suite Картинки с выставки ("Pictures at an Exhibition"). The pronunciation will be "nel MO-do ROOS-see-ko" in Pisan Italian.

"Extremely slowed down" and "very much held back" are English equivalents of the Italian phrase rit assai. The masculine singular past participle and adverb represent the short form of ritenuto assai. -- as well as of ritardando assai("gradually slowing down very much [so]). The pronunciation will be "REE-tas-SEYE" in the short form and "REE-tey-NOO-to as-SEYE" in the long form in Italian.

The OED cites an 1847 book as the first source of "number" to mean a musical performance, but doesn't indicate why that arose.

Its an abbreviation for Marcato, which means that the music should be emphatic or accented.

There are four semiquavers in a crotchet.

A quaver is an eighth note. A crotchet is a quarter note. A quaver is HALF of a crotchet.

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The term "cluster" is usually used to describe a group of notes that are as close as a half step or whole step apart played simultaneously.

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Although CDs do not have a spine, a CD Case would. Similar to the spine of a book, the spine would be the narrow vertical back side of the case which includes the hinge thingee... if you partially open the case and view it from the bottom, the spine would be the bottom of the "V".

A composition or passage for two or more parts, suggestive of a conversation

Four beats per measure; a quarter note gets one beat.

"nat" is an abbreviation for a "natural." It means that in a specified key, whether it consist of flats or sharps, the "natural" cancells out the normal flat or sharp tendency of the note.

it means fa lay do

root with fa as the bass

1st inversion with lay as the bass

2nd inversion with do as the bass

A step is defined by one pitch down or up to the next pitch which is two half-steps away. For example, from C to D or from Eb to F.

Soft and loud are described with dynamics. From softest to loudest:

ppp (pianississimo)
pp (pianissimo)
p (piano)
mp (mezzo-piano) (mezzo = medium)
mf (mezzo-forte)
f (forte)
ff (fortissimo)
fff (fortississimo)

There is also cresc. (to get louder) and decresc. (to get softer).

One of the notes in a chord. For a three-note chord (major, minor, diminished, augmented), the root is the first chord tone, the major or minor third is the "third" chord tone, and the perfect, diminished, or augmented fifth is the "fifth" chord tone. for chords of higher degree than five, the additional notes are all chord tones as well. Here is a list of the chord tones of common chords in C:

C - C E G

Cmin - C Eb G

Cdim - C Eb Gb

C+ - C E G#

Csus4 - C F G

C7 - C E G Bb

CMaj7 - C E G B

Cmin7 - C Eb G Bb

C9 - C E G Bb D

C11 - C E G Bb D F

CMaj13 - C E G B D F A (All of the notes of the C major scale!)

C13 - C E G Bb D F A

Diminuendo....it means from playing loudly you gradualy get quieter

Rameau was a French composer in the Baroque period. 'Notes inegales' was a prominent feature in his music. Pralltrillers and trills in his music usually start from the upper note.

There are several musical tempos that can be considered "fairly quick" such as allegro, allegretto, or vivace.

A 'lower-key' is a relative term. It is often used to compare two keys in the same register. For example: "D flat is a lower key than E flat".