Musical Terminology

Italian American

Semi breve Whole note

Minim 1/2 note

Crotchet 1/4 note

Quaver 1/8 note

semi quaver 1/16 note :)

semi demi quaver 1/36 note

The crotchet and quarter note are the exact same. The latter is derived from tempo: it fulfills a quarter value from a measure of 4/4 time signature. Neither one is incorrect or obscure.

It means 'sweetly'

A fret is the metal or wooden ridge that is laid in intervals across the neck, or fingerboard of a guitar, banjo, ukulele or other similar instruments, to help the musician stop the strings at the correct points for the correct pitch.

A minim is a measurement of time in music. A minim is equal to crotchet beats.

When referring to theme in music, it is most often the main line, or melody, that is outlined and is retreated back to multiple times in the work.

Molto is an Italian word meaning "very". On a musical score, it might be put before another musical term like subito, making molto subito, which would mean "very slow".

Do you mean a quaver that has 2 lines instead of one? It's called a semiquaver.

The time signature for this song is 3/4.

Timbre is the characteristic or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.

That can describe a passage of music that is played at a very highly skilled and musical level or any other artistic pursuit.

if you meant pitch then it means highness or lowness of a note but pith is the white stuff inside an orange peel

it is either the beat or the measure

The subdominant is usually the fourth scale degree of a major or minor scale.

No

The bottom number indicates what duration of note gets the beat.

In a surround sound system, it is where the sound seems to come from, E.G. the left speaker, the right speaker or somewhere in between the two

Crotchet is British-English for quarter note, and 92 means a tempo of 92 beats per minute. In this example, the quarter note gets the beat.

I think it means a particular pitch

If the crotchet beat is considered to be the unit beat, a minim contains two beats.

an organization of strong and weak beats

In an opera, the libretto is the lyrics to all the music in the opera.

I'm not sure if you are talking about something else but Ssa is usually a singing arrangent: Soprano Soprano Alto

A drone is sustained, unchanging, note. The most likely place we hear a drone is on the bagpipes which have two or three drone pies as well as a chanter to play melodies. The drone is also heard in most Asian music, particularly in Indian music, where the drone is achieved sometimes by the addition of sympathetic strings to a string instrument; these strings are sounded by vibrating in tune with notes played on the main strings.

A Crescendo is when the music grows from softer (piano) to something louder (metso-forte, forte, forte-forte, etc).