wind chimes

(music) A chime constructed from tubes, rods, bells, etc. made of wood, glass, metal or ceramic, suspended outside a building in such a way that they tinkle pleasantly when moved by the wind.

бятърни камбанки

chime made from suspended wooden, metal, etc. tubes, bells and rods that tinkle when moved by the wind


accentuare

it-verb

accentuàre (first-person singular present accèntuo, first-person singular past historic accentuài, past participle accentuàto, auxiliary avére)

accentuàre (canonical)
accèntuo (first-person present singular)
accentuài (first-person historic past singular)
accentuàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
accentuàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
accentuàndo (gerund)
accentuànte (participle present)
accentuàto (participle past)
accèntuo (first-person indicative present singular)
accèntui (indicative present second-person singular)
accèntua (indicative present singular third-person)
accentuiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
accentuàte (indicative plural present second-person)
accèntuano (indicative plural present third-person)
accentuàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
accentuàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
accentuàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
accentuavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
accentuavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
accentuàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
accentuài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
accentuàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
accentuò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
accentuàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
accentuàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
accentuàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
accentuerò (first-person future indicative singular)
accentuerài (future indicative second-person singular)
accentuerà (future indicative singular third-person)
accentuerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
accentueréte (future indicative plural second-person)
accentuerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
accentuerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
accentuerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
accentuerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
accentuerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
accentuerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
accentueréste (conditional plural present second-person)
accentuerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
accentuerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
accèntui (first-person present singular subjunctive)
accèntui (present second-person singular subjunctive)
accèntui (present singular subjunctive third-person)
accentuiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
accentuiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
accèntuino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
accentuàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
accentuàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
accentuàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
accentuàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
accentuàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
accentuàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
accèntua (imperative second-person singular)
accèntui (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
accentuiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
accentuàte (imperative plural second-person)
accèntuino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
accentuàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
accèntui (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
accentuiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
accentuàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
accèntuino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)


regal

From Middle English regal, from Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”). Doublet of rail, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

(music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.

(music) An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.


tango

From Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).

(music) A piece of music suited to such a dance.


conduct

en-verb

conduct (third-person singular simple present conducts, present participle conducting, simple past and past participle conducted)

conducts (present singular third-person)
conducting (participle present)
conducted (participle past)
conducted (past)

From Late Latin conductus (“defense, escort”), from Latin conductus, perfect passive participle of condūcō (“bring together”); see also conduce. Doublet of conduit.

der

For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had conducted the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, conducted the Compound 3 orchestra.

2006, Michael R. Waters, Mark Long, William Dickens, Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne:

(transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.


ornamentation

en-noun

ornamentation (countable and uncountable, plural ornamentations)

(music) Short notes added to a composition to emphasize certain notes and to add style.


canonical

en-adj

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

more canonical (comparative)
most canonical (superlative)


sitar

From Hindi सितार (sitār) / Urdu ستار (sitār), from Classical Persian سهتار (si-tār, literally “three strings”). Doublet of setar.

der

(music) A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber.


sitar

sitar (nominative singular)
sitarit (nominative plural)
sitar (accusative nominative singular)
sitarit (accusative nominative plural)
sitarin (accusative genitive singular)
sitarit (accusative genitive plural)
sitarin (genitive singular)
sitarien (genitive plural)
sitareiden (genitive plural)
sitareitten (genitive plural)
sitaria (partitive singular)
sitareita (partitive plural)
sitareja (partitive plural)
sitarissa (inessive singular)
sitareissa (inessive plural)
sitarista (elative singular)
sitareista (elative plural)
sitariin (illative singular)
sitareihin (illative plural)
sitarilla (adessive singular)
sitareilla (adessive plural)
sitarilta (ablative singular)
sitareilta (ablative plural)
sitarille (allative singular)
sitareille (allative plural)
sitarina (essive singular)
sitareina (essive plural)
sitariksi (singular translative)
sitareiksi (plural translative)
sitaritta (abessive singular)
sitareitta (abessive plural)
sitarein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
sitarini (nominative singular)
sitarini (nominative plural)
sitarini (accusative nominative singular)
sitarini (accusative nominative plural)
sitarini (accusative genitive singular)
sitarini (accusative genitive plural)
sitarini (genitive singular)
sitarieni (genitive plural)
sitareideni (genitive plural)
sitareitteni (genitive plural)
sitariani (partitive singular)
sitareitani (partitive plural)
sitarejani (partitive plural)
sitarissani (inessive singular)
sitareissani (inessive plural)
sitaristani (elative singular)
sitareistani (elative plural)
sitariini (illative singular)
sitareihini (illative plural)
sitarillani (adessive singular)
sitareillani (adessive plural)
sitariltani (ablative singular)
sitareiltani (ablative plural)
sitarilleni (allative singular)
sitareilleni (allative plural)
sitarinani (essive singular)
sitareinani (essive plural)
sitarikseni (singular translative)
sitareikseni (plural translative)
sitarittani (abessive singular)
sitareittani (abessive plural)
sitareineni (comitative plural)
sitarisi (nominative singular)
sitarisi (nominative plural)
sitarisi (accusative nominative singular)
sitarisi (accusative nominative plural)
sitarisi (accusative genitive singular)
sitarisi (accusative genitive plural)
sitarisi (genitive singular)
sitariesi (genitive plural)
sitareidesi (genitive plural)
sitareittesi (genitive plural)
sitariasi (partitive singular)
sitareitasi (partitive plural)
sitarejasi (partitive plural)
sitarissasi (inessive singular)
sitareissasi (inessive plural)
sitaristasi (elative singular)
sitareistasi (elative plural)
sitariisi (illative singular)
sitareihisi (illative plural)
sitarillasi (adessive singular)
sitareillasi (adessive plural)
sitariltasi (ablative singular)
sitareiltasi (ablative plural)
sitarillesi (allative singular)
sitareillesi (allative plural)
sitarinasi (essive singular)
sitareinasi (essive plural)
sitariksesi (singular translative)
sitareiksesi (plural translative)
sitarittasi (abessive singular)
sitareittasi (abessive plural)
sitareinesi (comitative plural)
sitarimme (nominative singular)
sitarimme (nominative plural)
sitarimme (accusative nominative singular)
sitarimme (accusative nominative plural)
sitarimme (accusative genitive singular)
sitarimme (accusative genitive plural)
sitarimme (genitive singular)
sitariemme (genitive plural)
sitareidemme (genitive plural)
sitareittemme (genitive plural)
sitariamme (partitive singular)
sitareitamme (partitive plural)
sitarejamme (partitive plural)
sitarissamme (inessive singular)
sitareissamme (inessive plural)
sitaristamme (elative singular)
sitareistamme (elative plural)
sitariimme (illative singular)
sitareihimme (illative plural)
sitarillamme (adessive singular)
sitareillamme (adessive plural)
sitariltamme (ablative singular)
sitareiltamme (ablative plural)
sitarillemme (allative singular)
sitareillemme (allative plural)
sitarinamme (essive singular)
sitareinamme (essive plural)
sitariksemme (singular translative)
sitareiksemme (plural translative)
sitarittamme (abessive singular)
sitareittamme (abessive plural)
sitareinemme (comitative plural)
sitarinne (nominative singular)
sitarinne (nominative plural)
sitarinne (accusative nominative singular)
sitarinne (accusative nominative plural)
sitarinne (accusative genitive singular)
sitarinne (accusative genitive plural)
sitarinne (genitive singular)
sitarienne (genitive plural)
sitareidenne (genitive plural)
sitareittenne (genitive plural)
sitarianne (partitive singular)
sitareitanne (partitive plural)
sitarejanne (partitive plural)
sitarissanne (inessive singular)
sitareissanne (inessive plural)
sitaristanne (elative singular)
sitareistanne (elative plural)
sitariinne (illative singular)
sitareihinne (illative plural)
sitarillanne (adessive singular)
sitareillanne (adessive plural)
sitariltanne (ablative singular)
sitareiltanne (ablative plural)
sitarillenne (allative singular)
sitareillenne (allative plural)
sitarinanne (essive singular)
sitareinanne (essive plural)
sitariksenne (singular translative)
sitareiksenne (plural translative)
sitarittanne (abessive singular)
sitareittanne (abessive plural)
sitareinenne (comitative plural)
sitarinsa (nominative singular)
sitarinsa (nominative plural)
sitarinsa (accusative nominative singular)
sitarinsa (accusative nominative plural)
sitarinsa (accusative genitive singular)
sitarinsa (accusative genitive plural)
sitarinsa (genitive singular)
sitariensa (genitive plural)
sitareidensa (genitive plural)
sitareittensa (genitive plural)
sitariaan (partitive singular)
sitariansa (partitive singular)
sitareitaan (partitive plural)
sitarejaan (partitive plural)
sitareitansa (partitive plural)
sitarejansa (partitive plural)
sitarissaan (inessive singular)
sitarissansa (inessive singular)
sitareissaan (inessive plural)
sitareissansa (inessive plural)
sitaristaan (elative singular)
sitaristansa (elative singular)
sitareistaan (elative plural)
sitareistansa (elative plural)
sitariinsa (illative singular)
sitareihinsa (illative plural)
sitarillaan (adessive singular)
sitarillansa (adessive singular)
sitareillaan (adessive plural)
sitareillansa (adessive plural)
sitariltaan (ablative singular)
sitariltansa (ablative singular)
sitareiltaan (ablative plural)
sitareiltansa (ablative plural)
sitarilleen (allative singular)
sitarillensa (allative singular)
sitareilleen (allative plural)
sitareillensa (allative plural)
sitarinaan (essive singular)
sitarinansa (essive singular)
sitareinaan (essive plural)
sitareinansa (essive plural)
sitarikseen (singular translative)
sitariksensa (singular translative)
sitareikseen (plural translative)
sitareiksensa (plural translative)
sitarittaan (abessive singular)
sitarittansa (abessive singular)
sitareittaan (abessive plural)
sitareittansa (abessive plural)
sitareineen (comitative plural)
sitareinensa (comitative plural)


sitar

From Persian سهتار (se-târ), meaning “three strings”.


sitar

pt-noun

sitar m or (nonstandard) f (plural sitares)

(music) sitar (Indian string instrument)


sitar

sitar (indefinite nominative singular)
sitaren (definite nominative singular)
sitarer (indefinite nominative plural)
sitarerna (definite nominative plural)
sitars (genitive indefinite singular)
sitarens (definite genitive singular)
sitarers (genitive indefinite plural)
sitarernas (definite genitive plural)

From Hindi सितार (sitār) and Urdu ستار (sitār), from Classical Persian سهتار (si-tār).


affetto

Shortened from the Italian musical direction con affetto.


LP

en-noun

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(music, countable) Initialism of long-play.


scream

From Middle English scremen, scræmen, probably from a fusion of Middle Dutch scremen (“to yell; shout”) and Old Norse skræma (“to terrify; scare”); compare Dutch schremen (“to shout; yell; cry”), Swedish skrämma (“to spook; frighten”), Danish skræmme (“to scare”), West Frisian skrieme (“to weep”). Compare also Swedish skräna (“to yell; shout; howl”), Dutch schreien (“to cry; weep”), German schreien (“to scream”). Related to shriek, skrike.

(music) A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.


falsetto

falsetto (countable and uncountable, plural falsettos)

Borrowed from Italian falsetto, from falso (“false”).

(music, countable) A person who sings in falsetto.


falsetto

→ English: falsetto

→ Portuguese: falsete

→ Spanish: falsete


raga

raga (countable and uncountable, plural ragas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit राग (rāga, “dye, colour”).

Coordinate term: ragini

‘The song is composed in a raga appropriate to the present hour, which is the evening.’

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 72:

(countable, music) Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.

রাগ

melodic mode used in Indian classical music


raga

head

raga m (genitive singular raga, nominative plural ragaí)

raga (genitive singular)
ragaí (nominative plural)
raga (indefinite nominative singular)
ragaí (indefinite nominative plural)
a raga (indefinite singular vocative)
a ragaí (indefinite plural vocative)
raga (genitive indefinite singular)
ragaí (genitive indefinite plural)
raga (dative indefinite singular)
ragaí (dative indefinite plural)
an raga (definite nominative singular)
na ragaí (definite nominative plural)
an raga (definite genitive singular)
na ragaí (definite genitive plural)
leis an raga (dative definite singular)
don raga (dative definite singular)
leis na ragaí (dative definite plural)

From English raga, from Sanskrit राग (rāga).


raga

Borrowed from Sanskrit राग (rāga, “dye, colour/color”).

bor+

(music) raga (melodic mode used in Indian classical music)


major key

(music) A musical key based upon a major scale.

大調

music: a musical key based upon a major scale


related

en-adj

related (comparative more related, superlative most related)

more related (comparative)
most related (superlative)

(not comparable, music) Synonym of relative.


adapter

adapterek (diminutive)
adapter (nominative singular)
adaptery (nominative plural)
adaptera (genitive singular)
adapteru (genitive singular)
adapterów (genitive plural)
adapterowi (dative singular)
adapterom (dative plural)
adapter (accusative singular)
adaptery (accusative plural)
adapterem (instrumental singular)
adapterami (instrumental plural)
adapterze (locative singular)
adapterach (locative plural)
adapterze (singular vocative)
adaptery (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English adapter. First attested in 1903.

ref

Józef Świtkowski (1903) Fotografia praktyczna w zarysie do użytku amatorów, page 39

stary adapter

głośnik adapteru

igła adapteru

ramię adapteru

nastawić adapter

uruchomić adapter

włączyć adapter

wyłączyć adapter

podłączyć adapter

ściszyć adapter

podgłośnić adapter

(music) gramophone, phonograph, record player


siren

From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles. Doublet of serin.

(music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).


drum

Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).
Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).

back-form

He's playing the piano and she's playing the drums!

In the Province of Xenſi, near the City Vucung, is a Hill called Taipe, which if a Drum be beaten upon it, preſently followeth Thunder, Lightning, and ſtormy weather, inſomuch that the Magiſtrates have forbidden all perſons upon pain of death to beat any Drum there.

1669, John Nievhoff, “Of ſome THINGS more then NATURAL, and ſtrange POOLS.”, in John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 273:

(music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.


drum

nl-noun

drum m (plural drums, diminutive drummetje n)

drums (plural)
drummetje (diminutive neuter)

(music) drum, usually one belonging to a drum kit


cyberpunk

en-noun

cyberpunk (countable and uncountable, plural cyberpunks)

From cyber- + -punk, coined by American writer and software developer Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.

coin

A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E₆₀ and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E₁₉ and the 13th root of 3.

2003, Jan Haluska, The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, →ISBN, page 109:

At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice tea and vodka in hand I saw your real face and something changed.

2014, Gemma White, Furniture is Disappearing, →ISBN, page 41:

Indeed, 'Mindphaser' (and Tactical Neural Implant more generally) represents a high point of cyberpunk in the industrial music scene.

2017, Tristanne Connolly, Tomoyuki Iino, Canadian Music and American Culture: Get Away From Me, →ISBN, page 182:

(music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.


tauko

tauko (nominative singular)
tauot (nominative plural)
tauko (accusative nominative singular)
tauot (accusative nominative plural)
tauon (accusative genitive singular)
tauot (accusative genitive plural)
tauon (genitive singular)
taukojen (genitive plural)
taukoa (partitive singular)
taukoja (partitive plural)
tauossa (inessive singular)
tauoissa (inessive plural)
tauosta (elative singular)
tauoista (elative plural)
taukoon (illative singular)
taukoihin (illative plural)
tauolla (adessive singular)
tauoilla (adessive plural)
tauolta (ablative singular)
tauoilta (ablative plural)
tauolle (allative singular)
tauoille (allative plural)
taukona (essive singular)
taukoina (essive plural)
tauoksi (singular translative)
tauoiksi (plural translative)
tauotta (abessive singular)
tauoitta (abessive plural)
tauoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
taukoni (nominative singular)
taukoni (nominative plural)
taukoni (accusative nominative singular)
taukoni (accusative nominative plural)
taukoni (accusative genitive singular)
taukoni (accusative genitive plural)
taukoni (genitive singular)
taukojeni (genitive plural)
taukoani (partitive singular)
taukojani (partitive plural)
tauossani (inessive singular)
tauoissani (inessive plural)
tauostani (elative singular)
tauoistani (elative plural)
taukooni (illative singular)
taukoihini (illative plural)
tauollani (adessive singular)
tauoillani (adessive plural)
tauoltani (ablative singular)
tauoiltani (ablative plural)
tauolleni (allative singular)
tauoilleni (allative plural)
taukonani (essive singular)
taukoinani (essive plural)
tauokseni (singular translative)
tauoikseni (plural translative)
tauottani (abessive singular)
tauoittani (abessive plural)
taukoineni (comitative plural)
taukosi (nominative singular)
taukosi (nominative plural)
taukosi (accusative nominative singular)
taukosi (accusative nominative plural)
taukosi (accusative genitive singular)
taukosi (accusative genitive plural)
taukosi (genitive singular)
taukojesi (genitive plural)
taukoasi (partitive singular)
taukojasi (partitive plural)
tauossasi (inessive singular)
tauoissasi (inessive plural)
tauostasi (elative singular)
tauoistasi (elative plural)
taukoosi (illative singular)
taukoihisi (illative plural)
tauollasi (adessive singular)
tauoillasi (adessive plural)
tauoltasi (ablative singular)
tauoiltasi (ablative plural)
tauollesi (allative singular)
tauoillesi (allative plural)
taukonasi (essive singular)
taukoinasi (essive plural)
tauoksesi (singular translative)
tauoiksesi (plural translative)
tauottasi (abessive singular)
tauoittasi (abessive plural)
taukoinesi (comitative plural)
taukomme (nominative singular)
taukomme (nominative plural)
taukomme (accusative nominative singular)
taukomme (accusative nominative plural)
taukomme (accusative genitive singular)
taukomme (accusative genitive plural)
taukomme (genitive singular)
taukojemme (genitive plural)
taukoamme (partitive singular)
taukojamme (partitive plural)
tauossamme (inessive singular)
tauoissamme (inessive plural)
tauostamme (elative singular)
tauoistamme (elative plural)
taukoomme (illative singular)
taukoihimme (illative plural)
tauollamme (adessive singular)
tauoillamme (adessive plural)
tauoltamme (ablative singular)
tauoiltamme (ablative plural)
tauollemme (allative singular)
tauoillemme (allative plural)
taukonamme (essive singular)
taukoinamme (essive plural)
tauoksemme (singular translative)
tauoiksemme (plural translative)
tauottamme (abessive singular)
tauoittamme (abessive plural)
taukoinemme (comitative plural)
taukonne (nominative singular)
taukonne (nominative plural)
taukonne (accusative nominative singular)
taukonne (accusative nominative plural)
taukonne (accusative genitive singular)
taukonne (accusative genitive plural)
taukonne (genitive singular)
taukojenne (genitive plural)
taukoanne (partitive singular)
taukojanne (partitive plural)
tauossanne (inessive singular)
tauoissanne (inessive plural)
tauostanne (elative singular)
tauoistanne (elative plural)
taukoonne (illative singular)
taukoihinne (illative plural)
tauollanne (adessive singular)
tauoillanne (adessive plural)
tauoltanne (ablative singular)
tauoiltanne (ablative plural)
tauollenne (allative singular)
tauoillenne (allative plural)
taukonanne (essive singular)
taukoinanne (essive plural)
tauoksenne (singular translative)
tauoiksenne (plural translative)
tauottanne (abessive singular)
tauoittanne (abessive plural)
taukoinenne (comitative plural)
taukonsa (nominative singular)
taukonsa (nominative plural)
taukonsa (accusative nominative singular)
taukonsa (accusative nominative plural)
taukonsa (accusative genitive singular)
taukonsa (accusative genitive plural)
taukonsa (genitive singular)
taukojensa (genitive plural)
taukoaan (partitive singular)
taukoansa (partitive singular)
taukojaan (partitive plural)
taukojansa (partitive plural)
tauossaan (inessive singular)
tauossansa (inessive singular)
tauoissaan (inessive plural)
tauoissansa (inessive plural)
tauostaan (elative singular)
tauostansa (elative singular)
tauoistaan (elative plural)
tauoistansa (elative plural)
taukoonsa (illative singular)
taukoihinsa (illative plural)
tauollaan (adessive singular)
tauollansa (adessive singular)
tauoillaan (adessive plural)
tauoillansa (adessive plural)
tauoltaan (ablative singular)
tauoltansa (ablative singular)
tauoiltaan (ablative plural)
tauoiltansa (ablative plural)
tauolleen (allative singular)
tauollensa (allative singular)
tauoilleen (allative plural)
tauoillensa (allative plural)
taukonaan (essive singular)
taukonansa (essive singular)
taukoinaan (essive plural)
taukoinansa (essive plural)
tauokseen (singular translative)
tauoksensa (singular translative)
tauoikseen (plural translative)
tauoiksensa (plural translative)
tauottaan (abessive singular)
tauottansa (abessive singular)
tauoittaan (abessive plural)
tauoittansa (abessive plural)
taukoineen (comitative plural)
taukoinensa (comitative plural)

tauota + -o. Meaning "rest" coined by Finnish ethnomusicologist Armas Otto Väisänen in Uusia suomenkielisiä säveltaiteen määresanoja (1915).

[ˈt̪ɑ̝u̯ko̞]


arrangement

en-noun

arrangement (countable and uncountable, plural arrangements)

From French arrangement.
Morphologically arrange + -ment

(music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.


arrangement

nl-noun

arrangement n (plural arrangementen, diminutive arrangementje n)

arrangementen (plural)
arrangementje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: aransêmèn


flyer

→ Finnish: flaijeri

→ French: flyer

→ German: Flyer

→ Korean: 플라이어 (peullaieo)

→ Portuguese: flyer

From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.

طَيَّار

someone who pilots or rides in an airplane


hiss

hissen (definite singular)
hissar (indefinite plural)
hissane (definite plural)


version

en-noun

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]

2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

(music) An instrumental in sound system culture.


relationship

/ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃənˌʃɪp/

[ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃn̩ˌʃɪp]

(music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.


minor key

(music) A musical key based upon a minor scale.

小調

music: a musical key based upon a minor scale


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).

(music) A piece of music for one performer.


solo

(music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.


solo

en-verb

solo (third-person singular simple present solos or soloes, present participle soloing, simple past and past participle soloed)

solos (present singular third-person)
soloes (present singular third-person)
soloing (participle present)
soloed (participle past)
soloed (past)

→ Portuguese: solar


solo

(music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)


solo

nl-noun

solo m (plural solo's or soli, diminutive solootje n)

solo's (plural)
soli (plural)
solootje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

(music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)


solo

eo-head

solo (accusative singular solon, plural soloj, accusative plural solojn)

solon (accusative singular)
soloj (plural)
solojn (accusative plural)


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.


solo

it-adj

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole, superlative solissimo)

sola (feminine)
soli (masculine plural)
sole (feminine plural)
solissimo (superlative)

→ English: solo

→ German: solo


solo

head

solo (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloer or soli, definite singular soloene or soliene)

soloen (definite singular)
soloer (indefinite plural)
soli (indefinite plural)
soloene (definite singular)
soliene (definite singular)

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).


solo

soloen (definite singular)
soloar (indefinite plural)
soloane (definite plural)


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus.


solo

pl-adj

solo (not comparable, no derived adverb)

(music) solo (without a companion or instructor)


solo

(music) solo (alone, without a companion)


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus (“alone, solitary”). Doublet of só.


solo

solo (indefinite nominative singular)
solot (definite nominative singular)
solon (indefinite nominative plural)
solona (definite nominative plural)
solos (genitive indefinite singular)
solots (definite genitive singular)
solons (genitive indefinite plural)
solonas (definite genitive plural)

(music) a solo (piece of music or dance performed by or strongly centered on a single or limited number of performers)


solo

Borrowed from French solo, from Italian solo


minor scale

(music) Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad.


fond

→ Bulgarian: фонд (fond)

→ Czech: fond

→ Dutch: fonds

→ English: fund

→ German: Fonds

→ Norwegian: fond

→ Russian: фонд (fond)

→ Scots: fond

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фо̏нд

Latin script: fȍnd

→ Swedish: fond

→ Turkish: fon

→ Ukrainian: фонд (fond)

Inherited from Old French, from Latin fundus. Doublet of fonds.


ukulele

ukulele (nominative singular)
ukulele (nominative plural)
ukulele (genitive singular)
ukulelí (genitive plural)
ukuleli (dative singular)
ukulelím (dative plural)
ukuleli (accusative singular)
ukulele (accusative plural)
ukulele (singular vocative)
ukulele (plural vocative)
ukuleli (locative singular)
ukulelích (locative plural)
ukulelí (instrumental singular)
ukulelemi (instrumental plural)


ukulele

ukulele (nominative singular)
ukulelet (nominative plural)
ukulele (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelet (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelen (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelet (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelen (genitive singular)
ukulelejen (genitive plural)
ukulelein (genitive plural rare)
ukulelea (partitive singular)
ukuleleja (partitive plural)
ukulelessa (inessive singular)
ukuleleissa (inessive plural)
ukulelesta (elative singular)
ukuleleista (elative plural)
ukuleleen (illative singular)
ukuleleihin (illative plural)
ukulelella (adessive singular)
ukuleleilla (adessive plural)
ukulelelta (ablative singular)
ukuleleilta (ablative plural)
ukulelelle (allative singular)
ukuleleille (allative plural)
ukulelena (essive singular)
ukuleleina (essive plural)
ukuleleksi (singular translative)
ukuleleiksi (plural translative)
ukuleletta (abessive singular)
ukuleleitta (abessive plural)
ukulelein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ukuleleni (nominative singular)
ukuleleni (nominative plural)
ukuleleni (accusative nominative singular)
ukuleleni (accusative nominative plural)
ukuleleni (accusative genitive singular)
ukuleleni (accusative genitive plural)
ukuleleni (genitive singular)
ukulelejeni (genitive plural)
ukuleleini (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleani (partitive singular)
ukulelejani (partitive plural)
ukulelessani (inessive singular)
ukuleleissani (inessive plural)
ukulelestani (elative singular)
ukuleleistani (elative plural)
ukuleleeni (illative singular)
ukuleleihini (illative plural)
ukulelellani (adessive singular)
ukuleleillani (adessive plural)
ukuleleltani (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltani (ablative plural)
ukulelelleni (allative singular)
ukuleleilleni (allative plural)
ukulelenani (essive singular)
ukuleleinani (essive plural)
ukulelekseni (singular translative)
ukuleleikseni (plural translative)
ukulelettani (abessive singular)
ukuleleittani (abessive plural)
ukuleleineni (comitative plural)
ukulelesi (nominative singular)
ukulelesi (nominative plural)
ukulelesi (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelesi (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelesi (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelesi (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelesi (genitive singular)
ukulelejesi (genitive plural)
ukuleleisi (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleasi (partitive singular)
ukulelejasi (partitive plural)
ukulelessasi (inessive singular)
ukuleleissasi (inessive plural)
ukulelestasi (elative singular)
ukuleleistasi (elative plural)
ukuleleesi (illative singular)
ukuleleihisi (illative plural)
ukulelellasi (adessive singular)
ukuleleillasi (adessive plural)
ukuleleltasi (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltasi (ablative plural)
ukulelellesi (allative singular)
ukuleleillesi (allative plural)
ukulelenasi (essive singular)
ukuleleinasi (essive plural)
ukuleleksesi (singular translative)
ukuleleiksesi (plural translative)
ukulelettasi (abessive singular)
ukuleleittasi (abessive plural)
ukuleleinesi (comitative plural)
ukulelemme (nominative singular)
ukulelemme (nominative plural)
ukulelemme (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelemme (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelemme (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelemme (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelemme (genitive singular)
ukulelejemme (genitive plural)
ukuleleimme (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleamme (partitive singular)
ukulelejamme (partitive plural)
ukulelessamme (inessive singular)
ukuleleissamme (inessive plural)
ukulelestamme (elative singular)
ukuleleistamme (elative plural)
ukuleleemme (illative singular)
ukuleleihimme (illative plural)
ukulelellamme (adessive singular)
ukuleleillamme (adessive plural)
ukuleleltamme (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltamme (ablative plural)
ukulelellemme (allative singular)
ukuleleillemme (allative plural)
ukulelenamme (essive singular)
ukuleleinamme (essive plural)
ukuleleksemme (singular translative)
ukuleleiksemme (plural translative)
ukulelettamme (abessive singular)
ukuleleittamme (abessive plural)
ukuleleinemme (comitative plural)
ukulelenne (nominative singular)
ukulelenne (nominative plural)
ukulelenne (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelenne (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelenne (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelenne (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelenne (genitive singular)
ukulelejenne (genitive plural)
ukuleleinne (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleanne (partitive singular)
ukulelejanne (partitive plural)
ukulelessanne (inessive singular)
ukuleleissanne (inessive plural)
ukulelestanne (elative singular)
ukuleleistanne (elative plural)
ukuleleenne (illative singular)
ukuleleihinne (illative plural)
ukulelellanne (adessive singular)
ukuleleillanne (adessive plural)
ukuleleltanne (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltanne (ablative plural)
ukulelellenne (allative singular)
ukuleleillenne (allative plural)
ukulelenanne (essive singular)
ukuleleinanne (essive plural)
ukuleleksenne (singular translative)
ukuleleiksenne (plural translative)
ukulelettanne (abessive singular)
ukuleleittanne (abessive plural)
ukuleleinenne (comitative plural)
ukulelensa (nominative singular)
ukulelensa (nominative plural)
ukulelensa (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelensa (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelensa (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelensa (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelensa (genitive singular)
ukulelejensa (genitive plural)
ukuleleinsa (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleaan (partitive singular)
ukuleleansa (partitive singular)
ukulelejaan (partitive plural)
ukulelejansa (partitive plural)
ukulelessaan (inessive singular)
ukulelessansa (inessive singular)
ukuleleissaan (inessive plural)
ukuleleissansa (inessive plural)
ukulelestaan (elative singular)
ukulelestansa (elative singular)
ukuleleistaan (elative plural)
ukuleleistansa (elative plural)
ukuleleensa (illative singular)
ukuleleihinsa (illative plural)
ukulelellaan (adessive singular)
ukulelellansa (adessive singular)
ukuleleillaan (adessive plural)
ukuleleillansa (adessive plural)
ukuleleltaan (ablative singular)
ukuleleltansa (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltaan (ablative plural)
ukuleleiltansa (ablative plural)
ukulelelleen (allative singular)
ukulelellensa (allative singular)
ukuleleilleen (allative plural)
ukuleleillensa (allative plural)
ukulelenaan (essive singular)
ukulelenansa (essive singular)
ukuleleinaan (essive plural)
ukuleleinansa (essive plural)
ukulelekseen (singular translative)
ukuleleksensa (singular translative)
ukuleleikseen (plural translative)
ukuleleiksensa (plural translative)
ukulelettaan (abessive singular)
ukulelettansa (abessive singular)
ukuleleittaan (abessive plural)
ukuleleittansa (abessive plural)
ukuleleineen (comitative plural)
ukuleleinensa (comitative plural)


ukulele

ukulele (indefinite nominative singular)
ukulelen (definite nominative singular)
ukuleler (indefinite nominative plural)
ukulelerna (definite nominative plural)
ukuleles (genitive indefinite singular)
ukulelens (definite genitive singular)
ukulelers (genitive indefinite plural)
ukulelernas (definite genitive plural)
ukulele (indefinite nominative singular)
ukulelen (definite nominative singular)
ukulelar (indefinite nominative plural)
ukulelarna (definite nominative plural)
ukuleles (genitive indefinite singular)
ukulelens (definite genitive singular)
ukulelars (genitive indefinite plural)
ukulelarnas (definite genitive plural)


mazurka

Via German Mazurka and Russian мазу́рка (mazúrka), from Polish mazurek (“dance of the Masurian”), the Masurians being the inhabitants of Mazowsze (compare Medieval Latin Mazovia), an ancient cultural region in east-central Poland.

der

(music) A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat.

(music) A classical musical composition inspired by the folk dance and conforming in some respects to its form, particularly as popularized by Chopin.


barra

head

barra m (genitive singular barra, nominative plural barraí)

barra (genitive singular)
barraí (nominative plural)
barra (indefinite nominative singular)
barraí (indefinite nominative plural)
a bharra (indefinite singular vocative)
a bharraí (indefinite plural vocative)
barra (genitive indefinite singular)
barraí (genitive indefinite plural)
barra (dative indefinite singular)
barraí (dative indefinite plural)
an barra (definite nominative singular)
na barraí (definite nominative plural)
an bharra (definite genitive singular)
na mbarraí (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbarra (dative definite singular)
don bharra (dative definite singular)
leis na barraí (dative definite plural)

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin.


monody

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-monody.wav

From Latin monodia, from Ancient Greek μονῳδία (monōidía).

All directions in life were blocked to him. He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear. Fear that is itself the penalty of all things feared.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 203:

(music) A composition having a single melodic line.


melisma

en-noun

melisma (countable and uncountable, plural melismas or melismata)

From Ancient Greek μέλισμα (mélisma, “song”), from μελίζω (melízō, “(I) sing, modulate; (I) celebrate in song”), from μέλος (mélos, “song, tune, melody; limb, part; member”).

A choir sang one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted.

1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

At the top of the hill in the archway of the main house, an eyeless old man sat on a bucket, scratching at a two-stringed gourd, warbling weird melismas on a madman's text.

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 38:

(music, countable) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text.

melisma

a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text

A subsequent generation of singers, including Ms. Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé, built their careers around melisma.

2010 December 24, David Browne, “Trilling Songbirds Clip Their Wings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music, uncountable) The use of such passages.


melisma

melisma (nominative singular)
melismata (nominative plural)
melismatu (genitive singular)
melismat (genitive plural)
melismatu (dative singular)
melismatům (dative plural)
melisma (accusative singular)
melismata (accusative plural)
melisma (singular vocative)
melismata (plural vocative)
melismatu (locative singular)
melismatech (locative plural)
melismatem (instrumental singular)
melismaty (instrumental plural)


melisma

(music) melisma (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)


kazoo

(music) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.

mirlitoi

a simple musical instrument consisting of a pipe with a hole in it


spiel

spiel (countable and uncountable, plural spiels)

Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) and/or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil.
Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.

bor+

Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."

1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Howell Book House, →ISBN:

A typical Last Poets song consisted of a "spiel," an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.

2007, Jocelyne Cesari, Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, Greenwood Pub Group, →ISBN:

Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]

2007, Mickey Hess, Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 17:


akompani

eo-head

akompani (present akompanas, past akompanis, future akompanos, conditional akompanus, volitive akompanu)

akompanas (present)
akompanis (past)
akompanos (future)
akompanus (conditional)
akompanu (volitive)
akompanas (present)
akompanis (past)
akompanos (future)
akompananta (active participle present singular)
akompanantaj (active participle plural present)
akompaninta (active participle past singular)
akompanintaj (active participle past plural)
akompanonta (active future participle singular)
akompanontaj (active future participle plural)
akompanantan (accusative active participle present singular)
akompanantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
akompanintan (accusative active participle past singular)
akompanintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
akompanontan (accusative active future participle singular)
akompanontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
akompanata (participle passive present singular)
akompanataj (participle passive plural present)
akompanita (participle passive past singular)
akompanitaj (participle passive past plural)
akompanota (future participle passive singular)
akompanotaj (future participle passive plural)
akompanatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
akompanatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
akompanitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
akompanitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
akompanotan (accusative future participle passive singular)
akompanotajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
akompananto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
akompanantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
akompaninto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
akompanintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
akompanonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
akompanontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
akompananton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
akompanantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
akompaninton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
akompanintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
akompanonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
akompanontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
akompanato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
akompanatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
akompanito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
akompanitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
akompanoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
akompanotoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
akompanaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
akompanatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
akompaniton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
akompanitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
akompanoton (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
akompanotojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
akompanante (active adverbial participle present)
akompaninte (active adverbial participle past)
akompanonte (active adverbial future participle)
akompanate (adverbial participle passive present)
akompanite (adverbial participle passive past)
akompanote (adverbial future participle passive)
akompani (infinitive)
akompanu (imperative)
akompanus (conditional)

akompananto

escort; attendant; member of an entourage

(music) to accompany (a singer, soloist, etc.)


symphony

en-noun

symphony (countable and uncountable, plural symphonies)

→ Burmese: ဆင်ဖိုနီ (hcanghpuini)

→ Japanese: シンフォニー (shinfonī)

→ Khmer: ស៊ីមហ្វូនី (siimfounii)

→ Malay: simfoni

→ Punjabi: ਸਿੰਫਨੀ (simphani)

→ Thai: ซิมโฟนี (sim-foo-nîi)

→ Welsh: symffoni

From Middle English symphonye, from Old French simphonie, from Latin symphonia, from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). By surface analysis, sym- + -phony. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and zampogna.

doublet

(music) An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.


bossa nova

[ˈbɔ.sɐ ˈnɔ.βɐ]

(music) bossa nova (Brazilian musical movement)


maraca

From Portuguese, derived from Old Tupi maráka or Guaraní mbaraka.

(music) A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.


voluntary

From Middle English *voluntarie, from Old French volontaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, of free will”), from voluntās (“will, choice, desire”), from volēns, present participle of volo (“to will”). Displaced native Old English selfwille (literally “self-willed”).

ncog

(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.


rhapsody

The noun is derived from Latin rhapsōdia (“part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation”), from Koine Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “part of an epic poem suitable for uninterrupted recitation; rigmarole”), Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδία (rhapsōidía, “composition or recitation of Epic poetry”), from ῥαψῳδός (rhapsōidós, “composer or performer of Epic poetry”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ῥαψῳδός (Rhapsōidós) is derived from ῥᾰ́πτω (rháptō, “to sew”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend; to turn”)) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “ode; song”) (ultimately from Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́ (“song”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns).
Sense 2.2 (“instrumental composition of irregular form”) probably developed from sense 2.1 (“exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing”), and both of these senses may have been influenced by rapture (“extreme excitement, happiness, or pleasure”), the latter being a quality associated with the senses. Sense 2.3 (“literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works”) is borrowed from Middle French rhapsodie (modern French rhapsodie), from Latin rhapsōdia: see above.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* French rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)
* German Rhapsodie (“instrumental composition of irregular form”)

cog

(music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.


orchestra

en-noun

orchestra (plural orchestras or (rare) orchestrae)

orchestras (plural)
orchestrae (plural rare)

→ Albanian: orkestër

→ Arabic: أوركسترا (ʔorkestrā)

→ Japanese: オーケストラ (ōkesutora)

→ Korean: 오케스트라 (okeseuteura)

→ Thai: ออร์เคสตรา (ɔɔ-kées-dtrâa)

Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra) (a derivative of ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”)).

The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.

It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.

1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:

Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):

(music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

nc

(music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.


banda

From Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐍉 (bandwō, “sign, token”).

(music) band (especially one consisting mainly of wind and percussion instruments)


banda

bandák (plural)
banda (nominative singular)
bandák (nominative plural)
bandát (accusative singular)
bandákat (accusative plural)
bandának (dative singular)
bandáknak (dative plural)
bandával (instrumental singular)
bandákkal (instrumental plural)
bandáért (causal-final singular)
bandákért (causal-final plural)
bandává (singular translative)
bandákká (plural translative)
bandáig (singular terminative)
bandákig (plural terminative)
bandaként (essive-formal singular)
bandákként (essive-formal plural)
bandában (inessive singular)
bandákban (inessive plural)
bandán (singular superessive)
bandákon (plural superessive)
bandánál (adessive singular)
bandáknál (adessive plural)
bandába (illative singular)
bandákba (illative plural)
bandára (singular sublative)
bandákra (plural sublative)
bandához (allative singular)
bandákhoz (allative plural)
bandából (elative singular)
bandákból (elative plural)
bandáról (delative singular)
bandákról (delative plural)
bandától (ablative singular)
bandáktól (ablative plural)
bandáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bandáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bandáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bandákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bandám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bandáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bandád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bandáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bandája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bandái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bandánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bandáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bandátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bandáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
bandájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bandáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

First attested in 1787. Borrowed from Italian banda (“group”). Perhaps via German Bande.

(colloquial, music) band (group of people playing popular music)

S legottan vitézlő férfiak menének, / Hogy kihoznák a port, ágyut töltenének. / Rárántá azonban Juhgége s a banda, / Megkezdé a táncot legelébb a vajda.

1851, János Arany, A nagyidai cigányok, canto 1:


banda

→ English: banda

Borrowed from French bande (“ribbon; group, gang”).


forces

(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oːɹsɪz

(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oəsɪz

(music, chiefly plural) The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production.


breaking

en-noun

breaking (countable and uncountable, plural breakings)

(music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.


pont

pontok (plural)
pont (nominative singular)
pontok (nominative plural)
pontot (accusative singular)
pontokat (accusative plural)
pontnak (dative singular)
pontoknak (dative plural)
ponttal (instrumental singular)
pontokkal (instrumental plural)
pontért (causal-final singular)
pontokért (causal-final plural)
ponttá (singular translative)
pontokká (plural translative)
pontig (singular terminative)
pontokig (plural terminative)
pontként (essive-formal singular)
pontokként (essive-formal plural)
pontban (inessive singular)
pontokban (inessive plural)
ponton (singular superessive)
pontokon (plural superessive)
pontnál (adessive singular)
pontoknál (adessive plural)
pontba (illative singular)
pontokba (illative plural)
pontra (singular sublative)
pontokra (plural sublative)
ponthoz (allative singular)
pontokhoz (allative plural)
pontból (elative singular)
pontokból (elative plural)
pontról (delative singular)
pontokról (delative plural)
ponttól (ablative singular)
pontoktól (ablative plural)
ponté (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
pontoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
pontéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
pontokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
pontom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pontjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pontod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pontjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pontja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pontjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pontunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pontjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pontotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pontjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pontjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pontjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

(music) point (a dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; in modern music, placed on the right of a note to prolong its time by one half)


folk

folk (countable and uncountable, plural folks)

From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Swedish folk and Danish folk. Doublet of volk.


folk

folk (nominative singular)
folkit (nominative plural)
folk (accusative nominative singular)
folkit (accusative nominative plural)
folkin (accusative genitive singular)
folkit (accusative genitive plural)
folkin (genitive singular)
folkien (genitive plural)
folkia (partitive singular)
folkeja (partitive plural)
folkissa (inessive singular)
folkeissa (inessive plural)
folkista (elative singular)
folkeista (elative plural)
folkiin (illative singular)
folkeihin (illative plural)
folkilla (adessive singular)
folkeilla (adessive plural)
folkilta (ablative singular)
folkeilta (ablative plural)
folkille (allative singular)
folkeille (allative plural)
folkina (essive singular)
folkeina (essive plural)
folkiksi (singular translative)
folkeiksi (plural translative)
folkitta (abessive singular)
folkeitta (abessive plural)
folkein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
folkini (nominative singular)
folkini (nominative plural)
folkini (accusative nominative singular)
folkini (accusative nominative plural)
folkini (accusative genitive singular)
folkini (accusative genitive plural)
folkini (genitive singular)
folkieni (genitive plural)
folkiani (partitive singular)
folkejani (partitive plural)
folkissani (inessive singular)
folkeissani (inessive plural)
folkistani (elative singular)
folkeistani (elative plural)
folkiini (illative singular)
folkeihini (illative plural)
folkillani (adessive singular)
folkeillani (adessive plural)
folkiltani (ablative singular)
folkeiltani (ablative plural)
folkilleni (allative singular)
folkeilleni (allative plural)
folkinani (essive singular)
folkeinani (essive plural)
folkikseni (singular translative)
folkeikseni (plural translative)
folkittani (abessive singular)
folkeittani (abessive plural)
folkeineni (comitative plural)
folkisi (nominative singular)
folkisi (nominative plural)
folkisi (accusative nominative singular)
folkisi (accusative nominative plural)
folkisi (accusative genitive singular)
folkisi (accusative genitive plural)
folkisi (genitive singular)
folkiesi (genitive plural)
folkiasi (partitive singular)
folkejasi (partitive plural)
folkissasi (inessive singular)
folkeissasi (inessive plural)
folkistasi (elative singular)
folkeistasi (elative plural)
folkiisi (illative singular)
folkeihisi (illative plural)
folkillasi (adessive singular)
folkeillasi (adessive plural)
folkiltasi (ablative singular)
folkeiltasi (ablative plural)
folkillesi (allative singular)
folkeillesi (allative plural)
folkinasi (essive singular)
folkeinasi (essive plural)
folkiksesi (singular translative)
folkeiksesi (plural translative)
folkittasi (abessive singular)
folkeittasi (abessive plural)
folkeinesi (comitative plural)
folkimme (nominative singular)
folkimme (nominative plural)
folkimme (accusative nominative singular)
folkimme (accusative nominative plural)
folkimme (accusative genitive singular)
folkimme (accusative genitive plural)
folkimme (genitive singular)
folkiemme (genitive plural)
folkiamme (partitive singular)
folkejamme (partitive plural)
folkissamme (inessive singular)
folkeissamme (inessive plural)
folkistamme (elative singular)
folkeistamme (elative plural)
folkiimme (illative singular)
folkeihimme (illative plural)
folkillamme (adessive singular)
folkeillamme (adessive plural)
folkiltamme (ablative singular)
folkeiltamme (ablative plural)
folkillemme (allative singular)
folkeillemme (allative plural)
folkinamme (essive singular)
folkeinamme (essive plural)
folkiksemme (singular translative)
folkeiksemme (plural translative)
folkittamme (abessive singular)
folkeittamme (abessive plural)
folkeinemme (comitative plural)
folkinne (nominative singular)
folkinne (nominative plural)
folkinne (accusative nominative singular)
folkinne (accusative nominative plural)
folkinne (accusative genitive singular)
folkinne (accusative genitive plural)
folkinne (genitive singular)
folkienne (genitive plural)
folkianne (partitive singular)
folkejanne (partitive plural)
folkissanne (inessive singular)
folkeissanne (inessive plural)
folkistanne (elative singular)
folkeistanne (elative plural)
folkiinne (illative singular)
folkeihinne (illative plural)
folkillanne (adessive singular)
folkeillanne (adessive plural)
folkiltanne (ablative singular)
folkeiltanne (ablative plural)
folkillenne (allative singular)
folkeillenne (allative plural)
folkinanne (essive singular)
folkeinanne (essive plural)
folkiksenne (singular translative)
folkeiksenne (plural translative)
folkittanne (abessive singular)
folkeittanne (abessive plural)
folkeinenne (comitative plural)
folkinsa (nominative singular)
folkinsa (nominative plural)
folkinsa (accusative nominative singular)
folkinsa (accusative nominative plural)
folkinsa (accusative genitive singular)
folkinsa (accusative genitive plural)
folkinsa (genitive singular)
folkiensa (genitive plural)
folkiaan (partitive singular)
folkiansa (partitive singular)
folkejaan (partitive plural)
folkejansa (partitive plural)
folkissaan (inessive singular)
folkissansa (inessive singular)
folkeissaan (inessive plural)
folkeissansa (inessive plural)
folkistaan (elative singular)
folkistansa (elative singular)
folkeistaan (elative plural)
folkeistansa (elative plural)
folkiinsa (illative singular)
folkeihinsa (illative plural)
folkillaan (adessive singular)
folkillansa (adessive singular)
folkeillaan (adessive plural)
folkeillansa (adessive plural)
folkiltaan (ablative singular)
folkiltansa (ablative singular)
folkeiltaan (ablative plural)
folkeiltansa (ablative plural)
folkilleen (allative singular)
folkillensa (allative singular)
folkeilleen (allative plural)
folkeillensa (allative plural)
folkinaan (essive singular)
folkinansa (essive singular)
folkeinaan (essive plural)
folkeinansa (essive plural)
folkikseen (singular translative)
folkiksensa (singular translative)
folkeikseen (plural translative)
folkeiksensa (plural translative)
folkittaan (abessive singular)
folkittansa (abessive singular)
folkeittaan (abessive plural)
folkeittansa (abessive plural)
folkeineen (comitative plural)
folkeinensa (comitative plural)


folk

(music) folk music (contemporary music in traditional style)


Führer

de-noun

Führer m (strong, genitive Führers, plural Führer, feminine Führerin)

Führers (genitive)
Führer (plural)
Führerin (feminine)
Führer (nominative singular)
Führer (definite nominative plural)
Führers (genitive singular)
Führer (definite genitive plural)
Führer (dative singular)
Führern (dative definite plural)
Führer (accusative singular)
Führer (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German füerære, vüerære, füerer, vüerer, from Old High German fôrari, equivalent to führen (“to lead”) + -er. Cognate with Yiddish פֿירער (firer), Cimbrian büurar, Swedish förare. In the historical sense probably a calque of Italian Duce.

(music) fugue theme (melody in the form it appears in first in a fugue)


transpose

en-verb

transpose (third-person singular simple present transposes, present participle transposing, simple past and past participle transposed)

transposes (present singular third-person)
transposing (participle present)
transposed (participle past)
transposed (past)

From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).

(transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.

transportar

music: to write or perform (a piece) in another key


piatto

it-noun

piatto m (plural piatti, diminutive piattino or piattèllo, augmentative piattóne, pejorative piattàccio)

piatti (plural)
piattino (diminutive)
piattèllo (diminutive)
piattóne (augmentative)
piattàccio (pejorative)

→ Albanian: pjatë

→ Cimbrian: pjatto

→ Greek: πιάτο (piáto)

→ Mòcheno: piatt

→ Piedmontese: piat

→ Sicilian: piattu

From Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”). Doublet of chiatto.


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).


session

en-verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

sessions (present singular third-person)
sessioning (participle present)
sessioned (participle past)
sessioned (past)

“I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.

2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times:

(music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.


recitation

en-noun

recitation (countable and uncountable, plural recitations)

/ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/

Borrowed from Middle French récitation, from Latin recitatio.

(music) A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.


WS

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(music) Initialism of wavetable synthesis; a method used to generate sound by a digital music synthesizer.


mordent

From Italian mordente. Doublet of mordant.

(music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.


sustain

From Middle English susteinen, sustenen, from Old French sustenir (French soutenir), from Latin sustineō, sustinēre (“to uphold”), from sub- (“from below, up”) + teneō (“hold”, verb).

To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]

2011, Chuck Eddy, Rock and Roll Always Forgets, page 265:

(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.


viva

eo-head

viva (accusative singular vivan, plural vivaj, accusative plural vivajn)

vivan (accusative singular)
vivaj (plural)
vivajn (accusative plural)


(music) A pointing mark in Anglican chant, which marks a place in the text where a barline occurs in the chant.

Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes


footwork

en-noun

footwork (usually uncountable, plural footworks)

In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.

2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian:

(uncountable, music) A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.


uguale

From Latin aequālis, derived from aequus (“equal, even”).

(music) equal (intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female)


タイ

ja:タイ (音楽記号)


-is

A + -is → Ais (“A sharp”)

C + -is → Cis (“C sharp”)

D + -is → Dis (“D sharp”)

E + -is → Eis (“E sharp”)

F + -is → Fis (“F sharp”)

G + -is → Gis (“G sharp”)

H + -is → His (“B sharp”)


-is

Norwegian Bokmål: -iss

A + -is → Ais (“A sharp”)

C + -is → Cis (“C sharp”)

D + -is → Dis (“D sharp”)

E + -is → Eis (“E sharp”)

F + -is → Fis (“F sharp”)

G + -is → Gis (“G sharp”)

H + -is → His (“B sharp”)


vibrate

en-verb

vibrate (third-person singular simple present vibrates, present participle vibrating, simple past and past participle vibrated)

vibrates (present singular third-person)
vibrating (participle present)
vibrated (participle past)
vibrated (past)

From Latin vibrātus, perfect passive participle of vibrō (“agitate, set in tremulous motion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”) or *weyb-.


reduction

en-noun

reduction (countable and uncountable, plural reductions)

From Middle English reduccion, a borrowing from Old French reducion, from Latin reductiō, reductiōnem.

(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.


raï

→ English: raï

→ German: Raï

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic راي (rāy, “opinion”), from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy, “opinion”).

bor+

(music) raï (form of music originating from Algeria)


fagot

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

(music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.


fagot

fagot (nominative singular)
fagota (dual nominative)
fagoty (nominative plural)
fagota (genitive singular)
fagotowu (dual genitive)
fagotow (genitive plural)
fagotoju (dative singular)
fagotoma (dative dual)
fagotam (dative plural)
fagot (accusative singular)
fagota (accusative dual)
fagoty (accusative plural)
fagotom (instrumental singular)
fagotoma (dual instrumental)
fagotami (instrumental plural)
fagośe (locative singular)
fagotoma (dual locative)
fagotach (locative plural)

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.


fagot

fagot (nominative singular)
fagoty (nominative plural)
fagotu (genitive singular)
fagotów (genitive plural)
fagotowi (dative singular)
fagotom (dative plural)
fagot (accusative singular)
fagoty (accusative plural)
fagotem (instrumental singular)
fagotami (instrumental plural)
fagocie (locative singular)
fagotach (locative plural)
fagocie (singular vocative)
fagoty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).


fagot

sk-noun

fagot m inan (genitive singular fagotu, nominative plural fagoty, genitive plural fagotov, declension pattern of dub)

fagotu (genitive singular)
fagoty (nominative plural)
fagotov (genitive plural)
dub (declension-pattern-of)
fagot (nominative singular)
fagoty (nominative plural)
fagotu (genitive singular)
fagotov (genitive plural)
fagotu (dative singular)
fagotom (dative plural)
fagot (accusative singular)
fagoty (accusative plural)
fagote (locative singular)
fagotoch (locative plural)
fagotom (instrumental singular)
fagotmi (instrumental plural)


fagot

fagọ̑t (canonical inanimate masculine)
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fagót (nominative singular)
fagóta (dual nominative)
fagóti (nominative plural)
fagóta (genitive singular)
fagótov (dual genitive)
fagótov (genitive plural)
fagótu (dative singular)
fagótoma (dative dual)
fagótom (dative plural)
fagót (accusative singular)
fagóta (accusative dual)
fagóte (accusative plural)
fagótu (locative singular)
fagótih (dual locative)
fagótih (locative plural)
fagótom (instrumental singular)
fagótoma (dual instrumental)
fagóti (instrumental plural)

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

(music) bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)


heterophony

en-noun

heterophony (countable and uncountable, plural heterophonies)

From Ancient Greek ἑτεροφωνία (heterophōnía). By surface analysis, hetero- + -phony.

(music) The simultaneous performance by a number of singers or musicians of two or more versions of the same melody.


brutal

en-adj

brutal (comparative more brutal, superlative most brutal)

more brutal (comparative)
most brutal (superlative)

From Medieval Latin brutalis (“savage, stupid”), from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid”).

der

(music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

brutal

in heavy metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs


trombone

→ English: trombone

→ Russian: тромбо́н (trombón) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: trombón (see there for further descendants)

From tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative suffix).


trombone

trombonen (definite singular)
tromboner (indefinite plural)
trombonene (definite plural)


trombone

trombonen (definite singular)
trombonar (indefinite plural)
trombonane (definite plural)


trombone

(music) trombone (a musical instrument in the brass family)


claw hammer

en-noun

claw hammer (countable and uncountable, plural claw hammers)

From claw + hammer, descriptive of the shape of the tool's head.

(music, uncountable) A fingerpicking technique primarily used by banjo players, but also by some guitarists.


pedaliter

(music) Of organ music requiring the use of both the manuals and the pedals


wobble

From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).

cog

“I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars. A dubstep wobble arrives about halfway through like a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms. Swift’s career.

2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.


hokum

en-noun

hokum (usually uncountable, plural hokums)

Uncertain; first attested as US theater slang, possibly a blend of hocus-pocus + bunkum.

[D]uring the 'twenties, jazz developed from an infrequent ‘hokum’ music in a few vaudeville acts to a household commodity.

1956, Marshall W[inslow] Stearns, “The Jazz Age Begins”, in The Story of Jazz, paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1970, →ISBN, page 153:

As a result a hybrid music, ‘hokum’, became popular. It owed much to ‘Georgia Tom’ Dorsey, Tampa Red and Big Bill Broonzy, and the first recordings in the idiom appeared around 1929. Many recordings by The Famous Hokum Boys, the Hokum Trio, The Hokum Boys and similar groups were recorded by 1930. Jokey, often bawdy, frequently satirical, they employed rural techniques in an urban setting, gently lampooning country ways through a city sophistication.

1985, Paul Oliver, “Black Music: ‘Sales Tax on It’: Race Records in the New Deal Years”, in Stephen W. Baskerville, Ralph Willett, editors, Nothing Else to Fear: New Perspectives on America in the Thirties, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

ES: That thing that you call double bow, I've heard many different names for it. / JG: Rockin' the bow. / ES: I've heard it called a straight shuffle. I've heard it called hocum. Have you ever heard it called hocum? / JG: Yeah, we call the jazz hocum. You see, anything away from the melody.

1990, The Devil’s Box, Madison, Ala.: Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers’ Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

Pianist [Thomas A.] Dorsey and guitarist Tampa Red popularized the double-entendre, up-tempo novelty blues style known as hokum blues that was a forerunner of the up-tempo rhythm and blues, whose similarly adult lyrics often had to be bowdlerized when covered by white singers for the white teen market in the 1950s.

2008, “R&B”, in Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor, Bill C. Malone, editors, Music, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 108:

Blues and hokum intertwined at least through the mid-1930s, when the hokum bands faded out. [...] Hokum was also absorbed into the jazz tradition.

2013, Larry Birnbaum, “The Jumpin’ Jive”, in Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ’n’ Roll, Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 133:

(uncountable, music) A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.


Arie

Arie (genitive)
Arien (plural)
Arie (nominative singular)
Arien (definite nominative plural)
Arie (genitive singular)
Arien (definite genitive plural)
Arie (dative singular)
Arien (dative definite plural)
Arie (accusative singular)
Arien (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Italian aria, from Latin āēr (“air (atmosphere), breath”).

(music) aria (solo singing piece, notably in operatic genres)


stretto

stretto (countable and uncountable, plural strettos or stretti)

Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.

(music) The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a fugue, especially towards the end.

(music) An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax.


stretto

(music) With gradually increasing speed.


stretto

So that over and above the public components – holidays, tourist attractions – there are private meanderings, linked to the climate as if this spell were a stretto passage in the year’s fugue: haphazard weather, aimless loves, unpredicted commitments…

(music) Having gradually increasing speed.


fusion

fusion (countable and uncountable, plural fusions)

fission

antonym(s) of “nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine”

First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.

The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof.

(music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.


console

desc

→ Armenian: քոնսոլ (kʻonsol), քոնցոլ (kʻoncʻol) — Constantinople

→ Catalan: consola

→ English: console

→ German: Konsole

→ Greek: κονσόλα (konsóla)

→ Ottoman Turkish: قونسول (konsol)

→ Turkish: konsol

→ Polish: konsola

Probably a shortened from consolateur, denoting the same architectural element, ultimately from consoler (“to console, to comfort”).

(music) upper part of the harp holding the chords, or the controlling interface of a pipe organ


acousmatic

From Latin acousmaticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκουσματικός (akousmatikós), from ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).

uder

ἀκουσματικός

(music) Referring to pre-recorded music that is presented in concert using loudspeakers, e.g. some types of computer music.

acousmate

referring to pre-recorded music that is presented in concert using loudspeakers


doubletrack

en-verb

doubletrack (third-person singular simple present doubletracks, present participle doubletracking, simple past and past participle doubletracked)

doubletracks (present singular third-person)
doubletracking (participle present)
doubletracked (participle past)
doubletracked (past)

(music) To mix together two or more audio tracks while doing studio recording.


consecutive

en-noun

consecutive (countable and uncountable, plural consecutives)

From French consécutif, from Medieval Latin cōnsecūtīvus, from Latin cōnsecūtus (“followed up”), from Latin cōnsequor (“to travel”).

The theory suggests, but does not state explicitly, that the prohibition of consecutives is the stricter the nearer the interval in question lies to the fundamental component of a blend.

1919, Henry J. Watt, The Foundations of Music, page 88:

In the case of discords, the fixed progression of the dissonant interval serves, to a large extent, as a guide to the progression of the remaining intervals of the harmony; in the case of concords this guidance is lacking, and it must be remembered that, in every progression of two parts, by similar motion, to a perfect concord (Fifth or Octave), there are bound to be hidden, if not apparent, consecutives.

2003, Franck Thomas Arnold, The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-bass, →ISBN, page 484:

Before adding the inner parts, check that there are no consecutives between S and B – don't forget that these can occur between the last printed notes of the phrase and your added parts, as well as within your own working. Here the risk of consecutives has been minimised by using mainly contrary motion in the bass.

2004, Hugh Benham, A Student's Guide to Harmony and Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 86:

(music, countable) A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.


tampion

(music) A plug for the upper end of an organ pipe.


quintet

From French quintette, from Italian quintetto, diminutive of quinto (“fifth”), itself from Latin quintus, related to quīnque (“five”).

(music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)

(music) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together


flatten

en-verb

flatten (third-person singular simple present flattens, present participle flattening, simple past and past participle flattened)

flattens (present singular third-person)
flattening (participle present)
flattened (participle past)
flattened (past)


semitone

(music) A musical interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used

(music) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale


melismatic

en-adj

melismatic (comparative more melismatic, superlative most melismatic)

more melismatic (comparative)
most melismatic (superlative)

From melismata + -ic, also contrued as melisma + -tic.

Because slower metrical types are more melismatic and ornamented than primary-meter, their melodic-passages in both xipi and erhuang are more melismatic and complex than those of primary-meter.

1991, Elizabeth Wichmann, Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera, University of Hawaii Press, page 92:

1998, Barbara Newman, Introduction, Barbara Newman (translator), Hildegard von Bingen, Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum, Cornell University Press, 2nd Edition, page 28,
In general, the more melismatic a piece, the more solemn, elaborate, and difficult it is, and the more the text is dominated by the music.

The melismatic content of this chant lies at the extreme of what is typical for responsories, usually considered among the most melismatic chant types.

2006, James Grier, The Musical World of a Medieval Monk: Adémar de Chabannes in Eleventh-century Aquitaine, Cambridge University Press, page 358:

(music) Of, relating to, or being a melisma; the style of singing several notes to one syllable of text.


rudiment

From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.

der

Show me your rudiments.

2014, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, spoken by Terence Fletcher (J. K. Simmons):

(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.


shredder

(music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.


notturno

/nɒˈtʊə(ɹ)nəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian notturno (“nocturnal, nightly”), from Latin nocturnus, from noctū (“by night”), from nox (“night”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Doublet of nocturne.


notturno

From Latin nocturnus, from noctū (“by night”), from nox (“night”), whence also Italian notte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.


bois

fr-noun

bois m (countable and uncountable, plural bois)

Inherited from Middle French bois, boys, boiz, from Old French bosc, bois, from Late Latin boscus or Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”). Compare Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque, Dutch bos and English bush.

der

croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens, je vais en enfer

Coordinate term: cuivre


alt

From Latin altus (“high”). Doublet of old and alto.

Sop[hy] Moderato! moderato! Madam. Your Ladyship's absolutely in alt. / L[ady] Scr[ape] In alt! Madam? / Sop[hy] Yes, in alt- Give me leave to tell your Ladyship, that you have raised your voice a full octave higher since you came into the room.

The duet was in alt; one stormed, the other half crying, half scolding, made up in volubility what her aunt possessed in authority, and it was not 'till Lady Meredith had twice raised her mild voice, either party could be silenced.

1794, Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria), Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel: A Novel, volume 1:

And he began, — "Poor insect! born to flutter and to die;" — falling into the second, directly Helen took the first, till he got down to such unreasonable bass that he suddenly gave a shriek in alt that made Olga stop her ears.

1857, Anne Manning, Helen and Olga: a Russian tale, page 194:

(music) Of a voice or instrument, high pitch; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.


alt

head

alt m (genitive singular ailt, nominative plural ailt)

ailt (genitive singular)
ailt (nominative plural)
alt (indefinite nominative singular)
ailt (indefinite nominative plural)
a ailt (indefinite singular vocative)
a alta (indefinite plural vocative)
ailt (genitive indefinite singular)
alt (genitive indefinite plural)
alt (dative indefinite singular)
ailt (dative indefinite plural)
an t-alt (definite nominative singular)
na hailt (definite nominative plural)
an ailt (definite genitive singular)
na n-alt (definite genitive plural)
leis an alt (dative definite singular)
don alt (dative definite singular)
leis na hailt (dative definite plural)


alt

alten (definite singular)
alter (indefinite plural)
altene (definite plural)

From Latin altus, via Italian alto; compare with German Alt.


alt

alten (definite singular)
altar (indefinite plural)
altane (definite plural)


DJ

Coordinate term: VJ

Last night a DJ saved my life / Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart

1982, Michael Cleveland (lyrics and music), “Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life”, performed by Indeep:

Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ / Because the music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life

1986, Morrissey & Johnny Marr (lyrics and music), “Panic”, in The World Won’t Listen, performed by The Smiths:

Three MC's and one DJ / We be getting down with no delay

1999, “Three MC’s and One DJ”, in Hello Nasty, performed by Beastie Boys:


operetta

(music) A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. [from 18th c.]


thrash

en-noun

thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

(music, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal.


orchestration

orchestration (countable and uncountable, plural orchestrations)

(uncountable, music) The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.

(countable, music) A composition that has been orchestrated.


flourish

From Middle English floryschen, from Old French florir (via the arrhizotonic stem floriss-), from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, from Latin flōrem (“flower”, noun). Corresponds to flower + -ish.

The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.

[I]f he is a soldier in command, successes will be amplified, and the results of his campaigns announced with a flourish of trumpets.

1872, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Percival Frost, The Annals of Tacitus with a Commentary by the Rev. Percival Frost, M.A, London: Whittaker & Co.; George Bell, Life of Tacitus:

(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.


partial

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

der

(music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.


FOB

(music) Initialism of Fall Out Boy, an American pop-punk band formed in Chicago.


oratorio

Borrowed from Italian oratorio (“oratorical”), from Latin ōrātōrius. Doublet of oratory.

(music) A musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery or acting.

араторыя

a musical composition on a religious theme


oratorio

Borrowed from Italian oratorio. Doublet of oratoire.


outboard

(music) Being or relating to an external effects unit such as compressor or equalizer.


outboard

(music) A studio having outboard gear (compressor, equalizer, etc.).


skip

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.


pena

head

pena (definite accusative penayı, plural penalar)

penayı (accusative definite)
penalar (plural)
pena (nominative singular)
penalar (nominative plural)
penayı (accusative definite singular)
penaları (accusative definite plural)
penaya (dative singular)
penalara (dative plural)
penada (locative singular)
penalarda (locative plural)
penadan (ablative singular)
penalardan (ablative plural)
penanın (genitive singular)
penaların (genitive plural)


kettledrum

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

(music) A large percussion instrument with a drumhead that is stretched over a hemispherical metal bowl.


géar

géar (genitive singular masculine géir, genitive singular feminine géire, plural géara, comparative géire)

géir (genitive masculine singular)
géire (feminine genitive singular)
géara (plural)
géire (comparative)
géar (masculine nominative singular)
ghéar (feminine nominative singular)
géara (nominative plural)
ghéara (nominative plural)
ghéir (masculine singular vocative)
ghéar (feminine singular vocative)
géara (plural vocative)
ghéir (genitive masculine singular)
géire (feminine genitive singular)
géara (genitive plural strong)
géar (genitive plural weak)
géar (dative masculine singular)
ghéar (dative masculine singular)
ghéar (dative feminine singular)
ghéir (archaic dative feminine singular)
géara (dative plural)
ghéara (dative plural)
níos géire (comparative)
is géire (superlative)
géar (mutation mutation-radical)
ghéar (lenition mutation)
ngéar (eclipsis mutation)

From Middle Irish gér, from Old Irish gér (compare Scottish Gaelic geur, Manx gear, geayr, geyre).

(music, both adjectival and nominalized, masculine) sharp


martello

From Late Latin martellus, diminutive of martulus, variant of Latin marculus, diminutive of marcus, or from malleus (“hammer”). Compare Portguese martelo and Catalan martell.


timpani

en-noun

timpani (usually uncountable, plural timpanis)

Borrowed from Italian timpani, plural of timpano (“drum”), from Latin tympanum (“drum”), from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, I hit”).

Since the timpani is a legato instrument, a note must be allowed to sound and ring to achieve the full effect of the drum.

2010, Steven L. Schweizer, Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

(music) The set of precision kettledrums in an orchestra.


timpani

timpani (nominative singular)
timpani (accusative nominative singular)
timpanin (accusative genitive singular)
timpanin (genitive singular)
timpania (partitive singular)
timpanissa (inessive singular)
timpanista (elative singular)
timpaniin (illative singular)
timpanilla (adessive singular)
timpanilta (ablative singular)
timpanille (allative singular)
timpanina (essive singular)
timpaniksi (singular translative)
timpanitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
timpanini (nominative singular)
timpanini (accusative nominative singular)
timpanini (accusative genitive singular)
timpanini (genitive singular)
timpaniani (partitive singular)
timpanissani (inessive singular)
timpanistani (elative singular)
timpaniini (illative singular)
timpanillani (adessive singular)
timpaniltani (ablative singular)
timpanilleni (allative singular)
timpaninani (essive singular)
timpanikseni (singular translative)
timpanittani (abessive singular)
timpanisi (nominative singular)
timpanisi (accusative nominative singular)
timpanisi (accusative genitive singular)
timpanisi (genitive singular)
timpaniasi (partitive singular)
timpanissasi (inessive singular)
timpanistasi (elative singular)
timpaniisi (illative singular)
timpanillasi (adessive singular)
timpaniltasi (ablative singular)
timpanillesi (allative singular)
timpaninasi (essive singular)
timpaniksesi (singular translative)
timpanittasi (abessive singular)
timpanimme (nominative singular)
timpanimme (accusative nominative singular)
timpanimme (accusative genitive singular)
timpanimme (genitive singular)
timpaniamme (partitive singular)
timpanissamme (inessive singular)
timpanistamme (elative singular)
timpaniimme (illative singular)
timpanillamme (adessive singular)
timpaniltamme (ablative singular)
timpanillemme (allative singular)
timpaninamme (essive singular)
timpaniksemme (singular translative)
timpanittamme (abessive singular)
timpaninne (nominative singular)
timpaninne (accusative nominative singular)
timpaninne (accusative genitive singular)
timpaninne (genitive singular)
timpanianne (partitive singular)
timpanissanne (inessive singular)
timpanistanne (elative singular)
timpaniinne (illative singular)
timpanillanne (adessive singular)
timpaniltanne (ablative singular)
timpanillenne (allative singular)
timpaninanne (essive singular)
timpaniksenne (singular translative)
timpanittanne (abessive singular)
timpaninsa (nominative singular)
timpaninsa (accusative nominative singular)
timpaninsa (accusative genitive singular)
timpaninsa (genitive singular)
timpaniaan (partitive singular)
timpaniansa (partitive singular)
timpanissaan (inessive singular)
timpanissansa (inessive singular)
timpanistaan (elative singular)
timpanistansa (elative singular)
timpaniinsa (illative singular)
timpanillaan (adessive singular)
timpanillansa (adessive singular)
timpaniltaan (ablative singular)
timpaniltansa (ablative singular)
timpanilleen (allative singular)
timpanillensa (allative singular)
timpaninaan (essive singular)
timpaninansa (essive singular)
timpanikseen (singular translative)
timpaniksensa (singular translative)
timpanittaan (abessive singular)
timpanittansa (abessive singular)

Borrowed from Italian timpani, plural of timpano (“drum”).


flauta

→ English: flauta

→ Tagalog: plawta


metodo

Borrowed from Spanish método, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).

(music) method (textbook for a specified musical instrument)


etude

From around the year 1837, borrowed from French étude (“study”) from Latin studium. Doublet of studio and study.

The etudes with metronome markings should be played in tempo, all others should be considered rubato.

2007, Michele Weir, Jazz Piano Handbook, Alfred Music Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

(music) A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.


etude

id-noun

étudè (first-person possessive etudeku, second-person possessive etudemu, third-person possessive etudenya)

étudè (canonical)
etudeku (first-person possessive)
etudemu (possessive second-person)
etudenya (possessive third-person)

From English etude, from French étude (“study”), from Old French estude (“study”), from Latin studium (“spirit”). Doublet of studi and studio.

(music) etude: a short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.


stopped pipe

(music) A pipe organ tube with a uniform diameter, one closed end and one open end.


obbligato

en-noun

obbligato (plural obbligatos or obbligati)

/ɒblɪˈɡɑːtəʊ/

The noise of the traffic outside the building on the boulevard made an unmusical obbligato to my thinking.

1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 281:

(music) An obbligato section; a prominent countermelody, often written to be played or sung above the principal theme (in a higher pitch range).


obbligato

it-adj

obbligato (feminine obbligata, masculine plural obbligati, feminine plural obbligate, superlative obbligatissimo)

obbligata (feminine)
obbligati (masculine plural)
obbligate (feminine plural)
obbligatissimo (superlative)


setlist

(music) A list of the songs to be played by a particular band or musical act for a particular show or tour.


overture

coda

antonym(s) of “opening of a piece of music”

/ˈəʊvətʃ(ʊ)ə/

/ˈoʊvəɹt͡ʃəɹ/

From Middle English overture, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French overture, from Old French overture. Doublet of aperture.

The overture was almost at a close; and silence being now more effective than any thing that he could urge in favour of the play, Courtenaye went behind the scenes:...

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Night”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:

(music) A musical introduction to a piece of music, or a play.


slap-back

en-adj

slap-back (comparative more slap-back, superlative most slap-back)

more slap-back (comparative)
most slap-back (superlative)

(music) when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.


ri

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Mandarin Chinese 里 (lǐ).

(music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.


romance

en-noun

romance (countable and uncountable, plural romances)

→ Japanese: ロマンス

→ Korean: 로맨스 (romaenseu)

From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adj) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.

der

(music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.


romance

→ Indonesian: romansa

(literature, music, historical) an emotional popular-historical epic ballad

(literature, music) a sentimental love song or love story


brawl

From French branle (“type of dance; an act of shaking, a shake”), from branler (“to shake”), from Old French brandeler (“to shake, wave; to agitate”); see further at etymology 2.
Alternatively, the word could be derived from brawl (“(obsolete) to move to and fro, quiver, shake”): see etymology 2.

Boy. Maiſter, will you win your loue with a french braule? / Brag[gart]. How meaneſt thou? brawling in French. / Boy. No my complet Maiſter, but to Iigge off a tune at the tongues ende, canarie to it with your feete, humour it with turning vp your eylids, ſigh a note and ſing a note ſomtime through the throate, if you ſwallowed loue with ſinging loue [...]

c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

(dance, music, historical) Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”)


akordo

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akordo (accusative singular akordon, plural akordoj, accusative plural akordojn)

akordon (accusative singular)
akordoj (plural)
akordojn (accusative plural)

(music) chord (combination of three or more pitches)