fife

fife (nominative singular)
fifet (nominative plural)
fife (accusative nominative singular)
fifet (accusative nominative plural)
fifen (accusative genitive singular)
fifet (accusative genitive plural)
fifen (genitive singular)
fifejen (genitive plural)
fifeä (partitive singular)
fifejä (partitive plural)
fifessä (inessive singular)
fifeissä (inessive plural)
fifestä (elative singular)
fifeistä (elative plural)
fifeen (illative singular)
fifeihin (illative plural)
fifellä (adessive singular)
fifeillä (adessive plural)
fifeltä (ablative singular)
fifeiltä (ablative plural)
fifelle (allative singular)
fifeille (allative plural)
fifenä (essive singular)
fifeinä (essive plural)
fifeksi (singular translative)
fifeiksi (plural translative)
fifettä (abessive singular)
fifeittä (abessive plural)
fifein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
fifeni (nominative singular)
fifeni (nominative plural)
fifeni (accusative nominative singular)
fifeni (accusative nominative plural)
fifeni (accusative genitive singular)
fifeni (accusative genitive plural)
fifeni (genitive singular)
fifejeni (genitive plural)
fifeäni (partitive singular)
fifejäni (partitive plural)
fifessäni (inessive singular)
fifeissäni (inessive plural)
fifestäni (elative singular)
fifeistäni (elative plural)
fifeeni (illative singular)
fifeihini (illative plural)
fifelläni (adessive singular)
fifeilläni (adessive plural)
fifeltäni (ablative singular)
fifeiltäni (ablative plural)
fifelleni (allative singular)
fifeilleni (allative plural)
fifenäni (essive singular)
fifeinäni (essive plural)
fifekseni (singular translative)
fifeikseni (plural translative)
fifettäni (abessive singular)
fifeittäni (abessive plural)
fifeineni (comitative plural)
fifesi (nominative singular)
fifesi (nominative plural)
fifesi (accusative nominative singular)
fifesi (accusative nominative plural)
fifesi (accusative genitive singular)
fifesi (accusative genitive plural)
fifesi (genitive singular)
fifejesi (genitive plural)
fifeäsi (partitive singular)
fifejäsi (partitive plural)
fifessäsi (inessive singular)
fifeissäsi (inessive plural)
fifestäsi (elative singular)
fifeistäsi (elative plural)
fifeesi (illative singular)
fifeihisi (illative plural)
fifelläsi (adessive singular)
fifeilläsi (adessive plural)
fifeltäsi (ablative singular)
fifeiltäsi (ablative plural)
fifellesi (allative singular)
fifeillesi (allative plural)
fifenäsi (essive singular)
fifeinäsi (essive plural)
fifeksesi (singular translative)
fifeiksesi (plural translative)
fifettäsi (abessive singular)
fifeittäsi (abessive plural)
fifeinesi (comitative plural)
fifemme (nominative singular)
fifemme (nominative plural)
fifemme (accusative nominative singular)
fifemme (accusative nominative plural)
fifemme (accusative genitive singular)
fifemme (accusative genitive plural)
fifemme (genitive singular)
fifejemme (genitive plural)
fifeämme (partitive singular)
fifejämme (partitive plural)
fifessämme (inessive singular)
fifeissämme (inessive plural)
fifestämme (elative singular)
fifeistämme (elative plural)
fifeemme (illative singular)
fifeihimme (illative plural)
fifellämme (adessive singular)
fifeillämme (adessive plural)
fifeltämme (ablative singular)
fifeiltämme (ablative plural)
fifellemme (allative singular)
fifeillemme (allative plural)
fifenämme (essive singular)
fifeinämme (essive plural)
fifeksemme (singular translative)
fifeiksemme (plural translative)
fifettämme (abessive singular)
fifeittämme (abessive plural)
fifeinemme (comitative plural)
fifenne (nominative singular)
fifenne (nominative plural)
fifenne (accusative nominative singular)
fifenne (accusative nominative plural)
fifenne (accusative genitive singular)
fifenne (accusative genitive plural)
fifenne (genitive singular)
fifejenne (genitive plural)
fifeänne (partitive singular)
fifejänne (partitive plural)
fifessänne (inessive singular)
fifeissänne (inessive plural)
fifestänne (elative singular)
fifeistänne (elative plural)
fifeenne (illative singular)
fifeihinne (illative plural)
fifellänne (adessive singular)
fifeillänne (adessive plural)
fifeltänne (ablative singular)
fifeiltänne (ablative plural)
fifellenne (allative singular)
fifeillenne (allative plural)
fifenänne (essive singular)
fifeinänne (essive plural)
fifeksenne (singular translative)
fifeiksenne (plural translative)
fifettänne (abessive singular)
fifeittänne (abessive plural)
fifeinenne (comitative plural)
fifensä (nominative singular)
fifensä (nominative plural)
fifensä (accusative nominative singular)
fifensä (accusative nominative plural)
fifensä (accusative genitive singular)
fifensä (accusative genitive plural)
fifensä (genitive singular)
fifejensä (genitive plural)
fifeään (partitive singular)
fifeänsä (partitive singular)
fifejään (partitive plural)
fifejänsä (partitive plural)
fifessään (inessive singular)
fifessänsä (inessive singular)
fifeissään (inessive plural)
fifeissänsä (inessive plural)
fifestään (elative singular)
fifestänsä (elative singular)
fifeistään (elative plural)
fifeistänsä (elative plural)
fifeensä (illative singular)
fifeihinsä (illative plural)
fifellään (adessive singular)
fifellänsä (adessive singular)
fifeillään (adessive plural)
fifeillänsä (adessive plural)
fifeltään (ablative singular)
fifeltänsä (ablative singular)
fifeiltään (ablative plural)
fifeiltänsä (ablative plural)
fifelleen (allative singular)
fifellensä (allative singular)
fifeilleen (allative plural)
fifeillensä (allative plural)
fifenään (essive singular)
fifenänsä (essive singular)
fifeinään (essive plural)
fifeinänsä (essive plural)
fifekseen (singular translative)
fifeksensä (singular translative)
fifeikseen (plural translative)
fifeiksensä (plural translative)
fifettään (abessive singular)
fifettänsä (abessive singular)
fifeittään (abessive plural)
fifeittänsä (abessive plural)
fifeineen (comitative plural)
fifeinensä (comitative plural)


lowboy

Possibly from low + French bois (“wood”).

(music) A precursor to the hi-hat drum, with a pair of cymbals low to the ground that are struck with a foot pedal.


idyll

From Latin īdyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion), from diminutive of εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”).

(music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.


motet

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motet c (singular definite motetten, plural indefinite motetter)

motetten (definite singular)
motetter (indefinite plural)
motet (indefinite nominative singular)
motetten (definite nominative singular)
motetter (indefinite nominative plural)
motetterne (definite nominative plural)
motets (genitive indefinite singular)
motettens (definite genitive singular)
motetters (genitive indefinite plural)
motetternes (definite genitive plural)


motet

motete (plural)
motet (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un motet (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
motetul (accusative definite nominative singular)
motete (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște motete (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
motetele (accusative definite nominative plural)
motet (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui motet (dative genitive indefinite singular)
motetului (dative definite genitive singular)
motete (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor motete (dative genitive indefinite plural)
motetelor (dative definite genitive plural)
motetule (singular vocative)
motetelor (plural vocative)


juke

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music.

2018 October 5, Patrick St. Michel, “The Inventive World of Japan’s Juke and Footwork Scene”, in Bandcamp Daily:

(uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.


jig

Unknown. Derivation from Middle English gyge (“fiddle”), from Old French gigue (“a fiddle”) has been proposed, but the connection and sense development are obscure. The sense “a type of dance” of modern French gigue is borrowed from English.

(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

They danced a jig.

Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.

2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.


motif

From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.

(music) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.

мотив

music: short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work


motif

From Dutch motief, from Middle Dutch motijf, from Old French motif (Modern French motif), from Late Latin mōtivus.

(music, literature) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.


opera

en-noun

opera (countable and uncountable, plural operas or opere)

Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre, opus, and ure.

(music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.

(music) The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.


opera

operák (plural)
opera (nominative singular)
operák (nominative plural)
operát (accusative singular)
operákat (accusative plural)
operának (dative singular)
operáknak (dative plural)
operával (instrumental singular)
operákkal (instrumental plural)
operáért (causal-final singular)
operákért (causal-final plural)
operává (singular translative)
operákká (plural translative)
operáig (singular terminative)
operákig (plural terminative)
operaként (essive-formal singular)
operákként (essive-formal plural)
operában (inessive singular)
operákban (inessive plural)
operán (singular superessive)
operákon (plural superessive)
operánál (adessive singular)
operáknál (adessive plural)
operába (illative singular)
operákba (illative plural)
operára (singular sublative)
operákra (plural sublative)
operához (allative singular)
operákhoz (allative plural)
operából (elative singular)
operákból (elative plural)
operáról (delative singular)
operákról (delative plural)
operától (ablative singular)
operáktól (ablative plural)
operáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
operáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
operáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
operákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
operám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
operáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
operád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
operáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
operája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
operái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
operánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
operáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
operátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
operáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
operájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
operáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera.

(music) opera (a theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance)

(music) opera, opera house (building designed for the performance of such works)


opera

opera (nominative singular)
opery (nominative plural)
opery (genitive singular)
oper (genitive plural)
operze (dative singular)
operom (dative plural)
operę (accusative singular)
opery (accusative plural)
operą (instrumental singular)
operami (instrumental plural)
operze (locative singular)
operach (locative plural)
opero (singular vocative)
opery (plural vocative)


opera

opera (indefinite nominative singular)
operan (definite nominative singular)
operor (indefinite nominative plural)
operorna (definite nominative plural)
operas (genitive indefinite singular)
operans (definite genitive singular)
operors (genitive indefinite plural)
operornas (definite genitive plural)

Fantomen på operan


opera

[ˌʔoː.pɛˈɾa]

Italian language
Latin language
Spanish language

Borrowed from Spanish ópera (“opera”), from Italian opera, from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of obra.


opera

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opera (definite accusative operayı, plural operalar)

operayı (accusative definite)
operalar (plural)
opera (nominative singular)
operalar (nominative plural)
operayı (accusative definite singular)
operaları (accusative definite plural)
operaya (dative singular)
operalara (dative plural)
operada (locative singular)
operalarda (locative plural)
operadan (ablative singular)
operalardan (ablative plural)
operanın (genitive singular)
operaların (genitive plural)

From Ottoman Turkish اوپهرا, اوپارا, اوپرا, اوپره (opera), from Italian opera, from Latin opera.


oboe

An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

(music) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.


oboe

oboe (nominative singular)
oboet (nominative plural)
oboe (accusative nominative singular)
oboet (accusative nominative plural)
oboen (accusative genitive singular)
oboet (accusative genitive plural)
oboen (genitive singular)
oboeiden (genitive plural)
oboeitten (genitive plural)
oboeta (partitive singular)
oboeita (partitive plural)
oboessa (inessive singular)
oboeissa (inessive plural)
oboesta (elative singular)
oboeista (elative plural)
oboeen (illative singular)
oboeihin (illative plural)
oboella (adessive singular)
oboeilla (adessive plural)
oboelta (ablative singular)
oboeilta (ablative plural)
oboelle (allative singular)
oboeille (allative plural)
oboena (essive singular)
oboeina (essive plural)
oboeksi (singular translative)
oboeiksi (plural translative)
oboetta (abessive singular)
oboeitta (abessive plural)
oboein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
oboeni (nominative singular)
oboeni (nominative plural)
oboeni (accusative nominative singular)
oboeni (accusative nominative plural)
oboeni (accusative genitive singular)
oboeni (accusative genitive plural)
oboeni (genitive singular)
oboeideni (genitive plural)
oboeitteni (genitive plural)
oboetani (partitive singular)
oboeitani (partitive plural)
oboessani (inessive singular)
oboeissani (inessive plural)
oboestani (elative singular)
oboeistani (elative plural)
oboeeni (illative singular)
oboeihini (illative plural)
oboellani (adessive singular)
oboeillani (adessive plural)
oboeltani (ablative singular)
oboeiltani (ablative plural)
oboelleni (allative singular)
oboeilleni (allative plural)
oboenani (essive singular)
oboeinani (essive plural)
oboekseni (singular translative)
oboeikseni (plural translative)
oboettani (abessive singular)
oboeittani (abessive plural)
oboeineni (comitative plural)
oboesi (nominative singular)
oboesi (nominative plural)
oboesi (accusative nominative singular)
oboesi (accusative nominative plural)
oboesi (accusative genitive singular)
oboesi (accusative genitive plural)
oboesi (genitive singular)
oboeidesi (genitive plural)
oboeittesi (genitive plural)
oboetasi (partitive singular)
oboeitasi (partitive plural)
oboessasi (inessive singular)
oboeissasi (inessive plural)
oboestasi (elative singular)
oboeistasi (elative plural)
oboeesi (illative singular)
oboeihisi (illative plural)
oboellasi (adessive singular)
oboeillasi (adessive plural)
oboeltasi (ablative singular)
oboeiltasi (ablative plural)
oboellesi (allative singular)
oboeillesi (allative plural)
oboenasi (essive singular)
oboeinasi (essive plural)
oboeksesi (singular translative)
oboeiksesi (plural translative)
oboettasi (abessive singular)
oboeittasi (abessive plural)
oboeinesi (comitative plural)
oboemme (nominative singular)
oboemme (nominative plural)
oboemme (accusative nominative singular)
oboemme (accusative nominative plural)
oboemme (accusative genitive singular)
oboemme (accusative genitive plural)
oboemme (genitive singular)
oboeidemme (genitive plural)
oboeittemme (genitive plural)
oboetamme (partitive singular)
oboeitamme (partitive plural)
oboessamme (inessive singular)
oboeissamme (inessive plural)
oboestamme (elative singular)
oboeistamme (elative plural)
oboeemme (illative singular)
oboeihimme (illative plural)
oboellamme (adessive singular)
oboeillamme (adessive plural)
oboeltamme (ablative singular)
oboeiltamme (ablative plural)
oboellemme (allative singular)
oboeillemme (allative plural)
oboenamme (essive singular)
oboeinamme (essive plural)
oboeksemme (singular translative)
oboeiksemme (plural translative)
oboettamme (abessive singular)
oboeittamme (abessive plural)
oboeinemme (comitative plural)
oboenne (nominative singular)
oboenne (nominative plural)
oboenne (accusative nominative singular)
oboenne (accusative nominative plural)
oboenne (accusative genitive singular)
oboenne (accusative genitive plural)
oboenne (genitive singular)
oboeidenne (genitive plural)
oboeittenne (genitive plural)
oboetanne (partitive singular)
oboeitanne (partitive plural)
oboessanne (inessive singular)
oboeissanne (inessive plural)
oboestanne (elative singular)
oboeistanne (elative plural)
oboeenne (illative singular)
oboeihinne (illative plural)
oboellanne (adessive singular)
oboeillanne (adessive plural)
oboeltanne (ablative singular)
oboeiltanne (ablative plural)
oboellenne (allative singular)
oboeillenne (allative plural)
oboenanne (essive singular)
oboeinanne (essive plural)
oboeksenne (singular translative)
oboeiksenne (plural translative)
oboettanne (abessive singular)
oboeittanne (abessive plural)
oboeinenne (comitative plural)
oboensa (nominative singular)
oboensa (nominative plural)
oboensa (accusative nominative singular)
oboensa (accusative nominative plural)
oboensa (accusative genitive singular)
oboensa (accusative genitive plural)
oboensa (genitive singular)
oboeidensa (genitive plural)
oboeittensa (genitive plural)
oboetaan (partitive singular)
oboetansa (partitive singular)
oboeitaan (partitive plural)
oboeitansa (partitive plural)
oboessaan (inessive singular)
oboessansa (inessive singular)
oboeissaan (inessive plural)
oboeissansa (inessive plural)
oboestaan (elative singular)
oboestansa (elative singular)
oboeistaan (elative plural)
oboeistansa (elative plural)
oboeensa (illative singular)
oboeihinsa (illative plural)
oboellaan (adessive singular)
oboellansa (adessive singular)
oboeillaan (adessive plural)
oboeillansa (adessive plural)
oboeltaan (ablative singular)
oboeltansa (ablative singular)
oboeiltaan (ablative plural)
oboeiltansa (ablative plural)
oboelleen (allative singular)
oboellensa (allative singular)
oboeilleen (allative plural)
oboeillensa (allative plural)
oboenaan (essive singular)
oboenansa (essive singular)
oboeinaan (essive plural)
oboeinansa (essive plural)
oboekseen (singular translative)
oboeksensa (singular translative)
oboeikseen (plural translative)
oboeiksensa (plural translative)
oboettaan (abessive singular)
oboettansa (abessive singular)
oboeittaan (abessive plural)
oboeittansa (abessive plural)
oboeineen (comitative plural)
oboeinensa (comitative plural)


oboe

From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.


oboe

oboe (indefinite nominative singular)
oboen (definite nominative singular)
oboer (indefinite nominative plural)
oboerna (definite nominative plural)
oboes (genitive indefinite singular)
oboens (definite genitive singular)
oboers (genitive indefinite plural)
oboernas (definite genitive plural)


baton

(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.


baton

Borrowed from English baton, from French bâton, from Old French baston, probably from Vulgar Latin *bastō, *bastōnis. Doublet of baston.

(music) stick of a conductor of an orchestra, or the majorette or drum major of a marching band


canto

From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.

(music) The designated division of a song.


canto

Unadapted borrowing from Italian canto, from Latin cantus. Doublet of szanta.

(music) canto (the designated division of a song)

(music) canto (the treble or leading melody)


levy

levy (nominative singular)
levyt (nominative plural)
levy (accusative nominative singular)
levyt (accusative nominative plural)
levyn (accusative genitive singular)
levyt (accusative genitive plural)
levyn (genitive singular)
levyjen (genitive plural)
levyä (partitive singular)
levyjä (partitive plural)
levyssä (inessive singular)
levyissä (inessive plural)
levystä (elative singular)
levyistä (elative plural)
levyyn (illative singular)
levyihin (illative plural)
levyllä (adessive singular)
levyillä (adessive plural)
levyltä (ablative singular)
levyiltä (ablative plural)
levylle (allative singular)
levyille (allative plural)
levynä (essive singular)
levyinä (essive plural)
levyksi (singular translative)
levyiksi (plural translative)
levyttä (abessive singular)
levyittä (abessive plural)
levyin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
levyni (nominative singular)
levyni (nominative plural)
levyni (accusative nominative singular)
levyni (accusative nominative plural)
levyni (accusative genitive singular)
levyni (accusative genitive plural)
levyni (genitive singular)
levyjeni (genitive plural)
levyäni (partitive singular)
levyjäni (partitive plural)
levyssäni (inessive singular)
levyissäni (inessive plural)
levystäni (elative singular)
levyistäni (elative plural)
levyyni (illative singular)
levyihini (illative plural)
levylläni (adessive singular)
levyilläni (adessive plural)
levyltäni (ablative singular)
levyiltäni (ablative plural)
levylleni (allative singular)
levyilleni (allative plural)
levynäni (essive singular)
levyinäni (essive plural)
levykseni (singular translative)
levyikseni (plural translative)
levyttäni (abessive singular)
levyittäni (abessive plural)
levyineni (comitative plural)
levysi (nominative singular)
levysi (nominative plural)
levysi (accusative nominative singular)
levysi (accusative nominative plural)
levysi (accusative genitive singular)
levysi (accusative genitive plural)
levysi (genitive singular)
levyjesi (genitive plural)
levyäsi (partitive singular)
levyjäsi (partitive plural)
levyssäsi (inessive singular)
levyissäsi (inessive plural)
levystäsi (elative singular)
levyistäsi (elative plural)
levyysi (illative singular)
levyihisi (illative plural)
levylläsi (adessive singular)
levyilläsi (adessive plural)
levyltäsi (ablative singular)
levyiltäsi (ablative plural)
levyllesi (allative singular)
levyillesi (allative plural)
levynäsi (essive singular)
levyinäsi (essive plural)
levyksesi (singular translative)
levyiksesi (plural translative)
levyttäsi (abessive singular)
levyittäsi (abessive plural)
levyinesi (comitative plural)
levymme (nominative singular)
levymme (nominative plural)
levymme (accusative nominative singular)
levymme (accusative nominative plural)
levymme (accusative genitive singular)
levymme (accusative genitive plural)
levymme (genitive singular)
levyjemme (genitive plural)
levyämme (partitive singular)
levyjämme (partitive plural)
levyssämme (inessive singular)
levyissämme (inessive plural)
levystämme (elative singular)
levyistämme (elative plural)
levyymme (illative singular)
levyihimme (illative plural)
levyllämme (adessive singular)
levyillämme (adessive plural)
levyltämme (ablative singular)
levyiltämme (ablative plural)
levyllemme (allative singular)
levyillemme (allative plural)
levynämme (essive singular)
levyinämme (essive plural)
levyksemme (singular translative)
levyiksemme (plural translative)
levyttämme (abessive singular)
levyittämme (abessive plural)
levyinemme (comitative plural)
levynne (nominative singular)
levynne (nominative plural)
levynne (accusative nominative singular)
levynne (accusative nominative plural)
levynne (accusative genitive singular)
levynne (accusative genitive plural)
levynne (genitive singular)
levyjenne (genitive plural)
levyänne (partitive singular)
levyjänne (partitive plural)
levyssänne (inessive singular)
levyissänne (inessive plural)
levystänne (elative singular)
levyistänne (elative plural)
levyynne (illative singular)
levyihinne (illative plural)
levyllänne (adessive singular)
levyillänne (adessive plural)
levyltänne (ablative singular)
levyiltänne (ablative plural)
levyllenne (allative singular)
levyillenne (allative plural)
levynänne (essive singular)
levyinänne (essive plural)
levyksenne (singular translative)
levyiksenne (plural translative)
levyttänne (abessive singular)
levyittänne (abessive plural)
levyinenne (comitative plural)
levynsä (nominative singular)
levynsä (nominative plural)
levynsä (accusative nominative singular)
levynsä (accusative nominative plural)
levynsä (accusative genitive singular)
levynsä (accusative genitive plural)
levynsä (genitive singular)
levyjensä (genitive plural)
levyään (partitive singular)
levyänsä (partitive singular)
levyjään (partitive plural)
levyjänsä (partitive plural)
levyssään (inessive singular)
levyssänsä (inessive singular)
levyissään (inessive plural)
levyissänsä (inessive plural)
levystään (elative singular)
levystänsä (elative singular)
levyistään (elative plural)
levyistänsä (elative plural)
levyynsä (illative singular)
levyihinsä (illative plural)
levyllään (adessive singular)
levyllänsä (adessive singular)
levyillään (adessive plural)
levyillänsä (adessive plural)
levyltään (ablative singular)
levyltänsä (ablative singular)
levyiltään (ablative plural)
levyiltänsä (ablative plural)
levylleen (allative singular)
levyllensä (allative singular)
levyilleen (allative plural)
levyillensä (allative plural)
levynään (essive singular)
levynänsä (essive singular)
levyinään (essive plural)
levyinänsä (essive plural)
levykseen (singular translative)
levyksensä (singular translative)
levyikseen (plural translative)
levyiksensä (plural translative)
levyttään (abessive singular)
levyttänsä (abessive singular)
levyittään (abessive plural)
levyittänsä (abessive plural)
levyineen (comitative plural)
levyinensä (comitative plural)

lev- + -y; from the same root as leveä (“wide”).

(music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)


tercel

hu-conj

Forms in parentheses are somewhat archaic or literary.

This verb has no prefix that could split, despite its first few letters.

tercelek (first-person indicative object-indefinite present singular)
tercelsz (indicative informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
tercel (formal indicative object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercel (indicative object-indefinite present singular third-person)
tercelünk (first-person indicative object-indefinite plural present)
terceltek (indicative informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
tercelnek (formal indicative object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelnek (indicative object-indefinite plural present third-person)
intransitive verb (first-person indicative object-definite present third-person)
intransitive verb (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically third-person)
intransitive verb (indicative informal object-definite present second-person)
definite forms are not used (first-person indicative object-definite present third-person)
definite forms are not used (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically third-person)
definite forms are not used (indicative informal object-definite present second-person)
terceltem (first-person indicative object-indefinite past singular)
terceltél (indicative informal object-indefinite past second-person singular)
tercelt (formal indicative object-indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelt (indicative object-indefinite past singular third-person)
terceltünk (first-person indicative object-indefinite past plural)
terceltetek (indicative informal object-indefinite past plural second-person)
terceltek (formal indicative object-indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
terceltek (indicative object-indefinite past plural third-person)
or a time adverb (first-person future indicative third-person)
or a time adverb (formal future indicative second-person-semantically third-person)
or a time adverb (future indicative informal second-person)
e.g. tercelni fog. (first-person future indicative third-person)
e.g. tercelni fog. (formal future indicative second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercelni fog. (future indicative informal second-person)
tercelék (first-person object-indefinite singular)
tercelél (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
tercele (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercele (object-indefinite singular third-person)
tercelénk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
tercelétek (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
tercelének (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelének (object-indefinite plural third-person)
e.g. tercel vala (first-person third-person)
e.g. tercel vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercel vala (informal second-person)
tercelt vala (first-person third-person)
tercelt vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelt vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
tercelendek (first-person object-indefinite singular)
tercelendesz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
tercelend (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelend (object-indefinite singular third-person)
tercelendünk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
tercelendetek (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
tercelendenek (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelendenek (object-indefinite plural third-person)
tercelnék (conditional first-person object-indefinite present singular)
tercelnél (conditional informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
tercelne (conditional formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelne (conditional object-indefinite present singular third-person)
tercelnénk (conditional first-person object-indefinite plural present)
tercelnétek (conditional informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
tercelnének (conditional formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelnének (conditional object-indefinite plural present third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional informal past second-person)
e.g. tercelt volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
e.g. tercelt volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercelt volna (conditional informal past second-person)
terceljek (first-person object-indefinite present singular subjunctive)
tercelj or (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
terceljél (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
terceljen (formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
terceljen (object-indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
terceljünk (first-person object-indefinite plural present subjunctive)
terceljetek (informal object-indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
terceljenek (formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
terceljenek (object-indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
e.g. tercelt légyen (first-person third-person)
e.g. tercelt légyen (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercelt légyen (informal second-person)
tercelni (infinitive)
tercelnem (first-person infinitive singular)
tercelned (infinitive informal second-person singular)
tercelnie (formal infinitive second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelnie (infinitive singular third-person)
tercelnünk (first-person infinitive plural)
tercelnetek (infinitive informal plural second-person)
tercelniük (formal infinitive plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelniük (infinitive plural third-person)
tercelés (noun-from-verb)
tercelő
tercelt
tercelve
tercelvén
tercelhetek (first-person indicative object-indefinite present singular)
tercelhetsz (indicative informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
tercelhet (formal indicative object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelhet (indicative object-indefinite present singular third-person)
tercelhetünk (first-person indicative object-indefinite plural present)
tercelhettek (indicative informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
tercelhetnek (formal indicative object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetnek (indicative object-indefinite plural present third-person)
intransitive verb (first-person indicative object-definite present third-person)
intransitive verb (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically third-person)
intransitive verb (indicative informal object-definite present second-person)
definite forms are not used (first-person indicative object-definite present third-person)
definite forms are not used (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically third-person)
definite forms are not used (indicative informal object-definite present second-person)
tercelhettem (first-person indicative object-indefinite past singular)
tercelhettél (indicative informal object-indefinite past second-person singular)
tercelhetett (formal indicative object-indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelhetett (indicative object-indefinite past singular third-person)
tercelhettünk (first-person indicative object-indefinite past plural)
tercelhettetek (indicative informal object-indefinite past plural second-person)
tercelhettek (formal indicative object-indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhettek (indicative object-indefinite past plural third-person)
tercelheték (first-person object-indefinite singular)
tercelhetél (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
tercelhete (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelhete (object-indefinite singular third-person)
tercelheténk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
tercelhetétek (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
tercelhetének (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetének (object-indefinite plural third-person)
e.g. tercelhet vala (first-person third-person)
e.g. tercelhet vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercelhet vala (informal second-person)
tercelhetett vala (first-person third-person)
tercelhetett vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetett vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
tercelhetendek (first-person object-indefinite singular)
or tercelandhatok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
tercelhetendesz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
or tercelandhatsz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
tercelhetend (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelhetend (object-indefinite singular third-person)
or tercelandhat (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or tercelandhat (object-indefinite singular third-person)
tercelhetendünk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
or tercelandhatunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
tercelhetendetek (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
or tercelandhattok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
tercelhetendenek (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetendenek (object-indefinite plural third-person)
or tercelandhatnak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or tercelandhatnak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
tercelhetnék (conditional first-person object-indefinite present singular)
tercelhetnél (conditional informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
tercelhetne (conditional formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelhetne (conditional object-indefinite present singular third-person)
tercelhetnénk (conditional first-person object-indefinite plural present)
tercelhetnétek (conditional informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
tercelhetnének (conditional formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetnének (conditional object-indefinite plural present third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional informal past second-person)
e.g. tercelhetett volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
e.g. tercelhetett volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercelhetett volna (conditional informal past second-person)
tercelhessek (first-person object-indefinite present singular subjunctive)
tercelhess or (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
tercelhessél (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
tercelhessen (formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
tercelhessen (object-indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
tercelhessünk (first-person object-indefinite plural present subjunctive)
tercelhessetek (informal object-indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
tercelhessenek (formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
tercelhessenek (object-indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
e.g. tercelhetett légyen (first-person third-person)
e.g. tercelhetett légyen (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. tercelhetett légyen (informal second-person)
tercelhetni
tercelhetnem (first-person singular)
tercelhetned (informal second-person singular)
tercelhetnie (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
tercelhetnie (singular third-person)
tercelhetnünk (first-person plural)
tercelhetnetek (informal plural second-person)
tercelhetniük (formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetniük (plural third-person)
tercelhetve / tercelhetvén (formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
tercelhetve / tercelhetvén (informal plural second-person)
tercelhetve / tercelhetvén (plural third-person)

(intransitive, music) to sing or play a musical instrument in thirds


rondo

en-noun

rondo (countable and uncountable, plural rondos)

Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau.

(music, countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.


rondo

id-noun

rondo (first-person possessive rondoku, second-person possessive rondomu, third-person possessive rondonya)

rondoku (first-person possessive)
rondomu (possessive second-person)
rondonya (possessive third-person)

From Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of raun, ronda, and ronde.

(music) rondo: a musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.


rondo

rondko (diminutive)
rondo (nominative singular)
ronda (nominative plural)
ronda (genitive singular)
rond (genitive plural)
rondu (dative singular)
rondom (dative plural)
rondo (accusative singular)
ronda (accusative plural)
rondem (instrumental singular)
rondami (instrumental plural)
rondzie (locative singular)
rondach (locative plural)
rondo (singular vocative)
ronda (plural vocative)


penna

From Latin penna, from Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), derived from the root *peth₂- (“to fly”).


prim

ro-adj

prim m or n (feminine singular primă, masculine plural primi, feminine and neuter plural prime)

primă (feminine singular)
primi (masculine plural)
prime (feminine neuter plural)
prim (accusative indefinite masculine neuter nominative singular)
primă (accusative feminine indefinite nominative singular)
primi (accusative indefinite masculine nominative plural)
prime (accusative feminine indefinite neuter nominative plural)
primul (accusative definite masculine neuter nominative singular)
prima (accusative definite feminine nominative singular)
primii (accusative definite masculine nominative plural)
primele (accusative definite feminine neuter nominative plural)
prim (dative genitive indefinite masculine neuter singular)
prime (dative feminine genitive indefinite singular)
primi (dative genitive indefinite masculine plural)
prime (dative feminine genitive indefinite neuter plural)
primului (dative definite genitive masculine neuter singular)
primei (dative definite feminine genitive singular)
primelor (dative definite genitive masculine plural)
primilor (dative definite feminine genitive neuter plural)

(music) first (playing lead in an orchestra)


moll

From German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle (“flat (in music)”).
Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål moll.

Bach's Gavotte in B Moll

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(music, obsolete) minor; in the minor key.


moll

moll (nominative singular)
mollok (nominative plural)
mollt (accusative singular)
mollokat (accusative plural)
mollnak (dative singular)
molloknak (dative plural)
mollal (instrumental singular)
mollokkal (instrumental plural)
mollért (causal-final singular)
mollokért (causal-final plural)
mollá (singular translative)
mollokká (plural translative)
mollig (singular terminative)
mollokig (plural terminative)
mollként (essive-formal singular)
mollokként (essive-formal plural)
mollban (inessive singular)
mollokban (inessive plural)
mollon (singular superessive)
mollokon (plural superessive)
mollnál (adessive singular)
molloknál (adessive plural)
mollba (illative singular)
mollokba (illative plural)
mollra (singular sublative)
mollokra (plural sublative)
mollhoz (allative singular)
mollokhoz (allative plural)
mollból (elative singular)
mollokból (elative plural)
mollról (delative singular)
mollokról (delative plural)
molltól (ablative singular)
molloktól (ablative plural)
mollé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
molloké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
molléi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
mollokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)

Borrowed from German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft”).

moll akkord


moll

mollok (plural)
moll (nominative singular)
mollok (nominative plural)
mollt (accusative singular)
mollokat (accusative plural)
mollnak (dative singular)
molloknak (dative plural)
mollal (instrumental singular)
mollokkal (instrumental plural)
mollért (causal-final singular)
mollokért (causal-final plural)
mollá (singular translative)
mollokká (plural translative)
mollig (singular terminative)
mollokig (plural terminative)
mollként (essive-formal singular)
mollokként (essive-formal plural)
mollban (inessive singular)
mollokban (inessive plural)
mollon (singular superessive)
mollokon (plural superessive)
mollnál (adessive singular)
molloknál (adessive plural)
mollba (illative singular)
mollokba (illative plural)
mollra (singular sublative)
mollokra (plural sublative)
mollhoz (allative singular)
mollokhoz (allative plural)
mollból (elative singular)
mollokból (elative plural)
mollról (delative singular)
mollokról (delative plural)
molltól (ablative singular)
molloktól (ablative plural)
mollé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
molloké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
molléi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
mollokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
mollom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
molljaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
mollod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
molljaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
mollja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
molljai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
mollunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
molljaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mollotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
molljaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
molljuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
molljaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

a-moll


moll

head

moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)

molls (genitive singular)
mollar (nominative plural)
moll (indefinite nominative singular)
mollinn (definite nominative singular)
mollar (indefinite nominative plural)
mollarnir (definite nominative plural)
moll (accusative indefinite singular)
mollinn (accusative definite singular)
molla (accusative indefinite plural)
mollana (accusative definite plural)
molli (dative indefinite singular)
moll (dative indefinite singular)
mollinum (dative definite singular)
mollnum (dative definite singular)
mollum (dative indefinite plural)
mollunum (dative definite plural)
molls (genitive indefinite singular)
mollsins (definite genitive singular)
molla (genitive indefinite plural)
mollanna (definite genitive plural)


moll

mollen (definite singular)
moller (indefinite plural)
mollene (definite plural)

From German Moll (“minor”), from Medieval Latin molle, of Latin mollis (“soft”), from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Italic *moldus, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“soft, weak, tender”).
Cognate with English moll, Icelandic moll, Czech moll, Hungarian moll and Swedish moll.

der

ren moll

han vidste, at Hans blot kunde tre akkompagnementer; et i moll og to i dur

1907, Alexander Kielland, Samlede værker I (Mindeutgave), page 6:

he knew that Hans could only do three accompaniments; one in minor and two in major

musikken skifter fra moll til dur, og trombonene kommer inn over de lange, blanke strykeakkordene

the music changes from minor to major, and the trombones come in over the long, shiny string chords

(music) a minor scale (having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth)


oblique motion

en-noun

oblique motion (countable and uncountable, plural oblique motions)

(music) A kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone.


compound

From Middle English compounen, from Middle French componre, compondre (“to put together”), from Latin componō, from Latin com- (“together”) + ponō (“to put”).

(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).


aleatory

From Latin āleātōrius, from āleātor (“dice-player”), from ālea (“a die”).

(art, music) Produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).


scat

en-verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

scats (present singular third-person)
scatting (participle present)
scatted (participle past)
scatted (past)

(music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.


wrest

wrest (third-person singular simple present wrests, present participle wresting, simple past and past participle wrested)

wrests (present singular third-person)
wresting (participle present)
wrested (participle past)
wrested (past)

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

The Harpe. A harpe geueth ſounde as it is ſette / The harper may wreſt it vntunablye

1503 July, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto St Dunstan-in-the-West by Thomas Marshe, published 1568, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:

(transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.


wrest

The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

1503 July, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, published 1568, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:

The Minstrel […] wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp.

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 323:

(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.


chime

From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.

Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.

Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra.

(music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.


vamp

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

I would go even further and say that, once [Stephen] Sondheim had ceased to compose classical music with its nonspecific accompaniments, he began to explore how effectively a vamp can flesh out a character for the stage. He had little need to write distinctive vamps for his Williams [College] shows, but already in 1954—before the highly characteristic vamps in West Side Story—we see him growing in his ability to get under a character's skin through his accompaniment.

2005, Steve Swayne, “Pulling It Apart”, in How Sondheim Found His Sound, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 116:

On the mega-rave circuit, a pop hardcore sound gradually emerged, fusing the piano vamps and shrieking divas of 1989-era Italo house with Belgian hardcore's monster-riffs and Shut Up and Dance style breakbeats and rumblin' bass.

2012, Simon Reynolds, “’Ardcore, You Know the Score”, in Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Berkeley, Calif.: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 119:

(music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.


vamp

en-verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

vamps (present singular third-person)
vamping (participle present)
vamped (participle past)
vamped (past)

"It is so unkind to joke about it," said the beautiful young lady. "What shall I do? If somebody will vamp an accompaniment, I can get on very well without any music. But if I try to play for myself I shall break down."

1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter I, in The Irrational Knot … Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 14:

The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur, London: John Gifford […], →OCLC, →OL, page 52:

[W]hen she [Billie Holiday] finally emerged from her dressing room, she would take her time getting to the stage, stopping and greeting people and even having drinks at the bar while her accompanists vamped.

1994, Donald Clarke, “The War Years”, in Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN; republished as Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 206:

(transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

(transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).


labial

Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.

af

a labial organ pipe


labial

All organ pipes are divided into two general classes, labial and lingual pipes. The main difference between the two classes is the manner by which the vibrations producing the sound are caused. In labial pipes the column of air entering the pipe under pressure is set in vibration by a fixed obstruction at the mount of the pipe. […] [T]he obstruction at the mouth […] causes the column of air to vibrate. In the lingual or reed pipe, the vibrations are caused by the air passing through a metal reed, which causes the tongue of the reed to vibrate, thereby setting up sympathetic vibrations in the column of air in the pipe.

1923, Estey Organ Company, The Philosophy of an Organ Builder, Brattleboro, VT, pages 34–35:

(music) An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.


clang

1570, of imitative origin; Compare also Saterland Frisian Kloang, West Frisian klank, Dutch klank, German Klang (from klingen), Danish and Swedish klang, Latin clangere.


troop

nl-noun

troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)

tropen (plural)
troopje (diminutive neuter)


cater

From French quatre (“four”). Doublet of cuatro.

The very terms of the art are enough to frighten an amateur. Hunting, dodging... caters, cinques, etc.

1872, Henry Thomas Ellacombe, The Bells of Church, page 29:

Cater... The name given by change ringers to changes of nine bells. The word should probably be written quaters, as it is meant to denote the fact that four couples of bells change their places in the order of ringing.

1878, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. "Cater":

(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.


disc

Borrowed from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).


disc

discuri (plural)
disc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un disc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
discul (accusative definite nominative singular)
discuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște discuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
discurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
disc (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui disc (dative genitive indefinite singular)
discului (dative definite genitive singular)
discuri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor discuri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
discurilor (dative definite genitive plural)
discule (singular vocative)
discurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).


soma

Transliteration of Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma).

transliteration

(music, historical, Byzantine Greece) second interval


winker

From wink (“blinking of only one eye”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

silmäniskijä

Where the wind-trunk is short between the reservoir and wind-chests the tone will be steady; but when it is long, and with bends, the elasticity of the air causes an unsteadiness in the tone, which must be obviated by the use of concussion-bellows, sometimes called "winkers," or by an elastic diaphragm.

1877, W[illia]m H[oratio] Clarke, “The Interior of the Organ”, in An Outline of the Structure of the Pipe Organ […], Boston, Mass.: Oliver Ditson Company […], →OCLC, page 21:

A thing which is used to wink with, or which winks.

(music) A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, which controls variations of wind pressure.


classical

en-adj

classical (comparative more classical, superlative most classical)

more classical (comparative)
most classical (superlative)

Garner's Modern English Usage
linguistic description
linguistic prescription

See classic § Etymology for history. By surface analysis, class + -ical = classic + -al

classic

see Usage notes regarding differentiation.

(music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

(informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.


jo

eu-verb

jo du (imperfect participle jotzen, future participle joko, short form jo, verbal noun jotze)

jo du (canonical)
jotzen (imperfect participle)
joko (future participle)
jo (short-form)
jotze (noun-from-verb)

Gitarra jo nahi dut.


fanfare

en-verb

fanfare (third-person singular simple present fanfares, present participle fanfaring, simple past and past participle fanfared)

fanfares (present singular third-person)
fanfaring (participle present)
fanfared (participle past)
fanfared (past)

Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,

1946, John Hugh Brignal Peel, Mere England: a poem, page 49:

PAM is a guitar song fanfared by massive chords on an acoustic 12-string (probably (ribbed From The Who's contemporary hit 'Pinball Wizard').

2008, Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, →ISBN, page 364:


fanfare

→ Turkish: fanfar

Probably from Arabic فَرْفَار (farfār); see fanfaron (“boaster”).


volta

(music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).

(music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.


dominant

→ Polish: dominant

(music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

(music) The triad built on the dominant tone.


dominant

en-adj

dominant (comparative more dominant, superlative most dominant)

more dominant (comparative)
most dominant (superlative)

Dominant seventh


dominant

ca-adj

dominant m or f (masculine and feminine plural dominants)


dominant

dominant (indefinite nominative singular)
dominanten (definite nominative singular)
dominanter (indefinite nominative plural)
dominanterna (definite nominative plural)
dominants (genitive indefinite singular)
dominantens (definite genitive singular)
dominanters (genitive indefinite plural)
dominanternas (definite genitive plural)


novelette

(music) A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.


beam

From Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.
The original English meaning of beam ("tree") is preserved in some compound words such as quickbeam.
The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English bēamian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.

inh

(music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.


beam

en-verb

beam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)

beams (present singular third-person)
beaming (participle present)
beamed (participle past)
beamed (past)

German: beamen

Dutch: beamen

Japanese: ビーム

(transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.


minuet

From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).

(music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.

(music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.

(music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.


fundamental

From Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.

(music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.


grand

en-adj

grand (comparative grander or more grand, superlative grandest or most grand)

grander (comparative)
more grand (comparative)
grandest (superlative)
most grand (superlative)

From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.

(music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.


septette

(music) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; a septuor.


ruff

I also used quite a few of the flat-fingered kind of ruff (as used before on the doumbek in the baladi section) to embellish some notes.

2003, Rob Lewis, “3 Camps: Rudimental Drum Solo”, in Crosstraining: A Method for Applying Rhythms and Techniques to Drum Set, Hand Percussion and Mallet Instruments, Pacific, Mo.: Mel Bay Productions, →ISBN, part 6 (Rudiments and Rudimental Solos), page 71:

(music, often military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.


node

head

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)

noden (definite singular)
noder (indefinite plural)


plaque

en-noun

plaque (countable and uncountable, plural plaques)

Unadapted borrowing from French plaque (“plate, sheet (of metal); slab (of marble); bacteria on teeth”), from French plaquer, Middle French plaquer (“to plate”), from Middle Dutch placken (“to patch, beat metal into a thin plate”), from placke (“disk, patch, stain”), from Old Dutch *plagga (“patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“patch”).
The word is cognate with Middle Low German placke, plagge (“small stain, scraps, rags, thin grass”), German Placken (“spot, patch”), Saterland Frisian plak, plakke (“a blow, slap”), Swedish plagg (“clothing, garment”). Compare plack.

plakki

abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease

blown plaques

aconcussion plaques

(countable, music) In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.


rosette

Borrowed from Middle French rosette, rozette (in sense 15) and (modern) French rosette.

(music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.


rapper

He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.

(music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.


rapper

(music) to speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music


recital

recital (nominative singular)
recitale (nominative plural)
recitalu (genitive singular)
recitali (genitive plural)
recitalów (genitive plural)
recitalowi (dative singular)
recitalom (dative plural)
recital (accusative singular)
recitale (accusative plural)
recitalem (instrumental singular)
recitalami (instrumental plural)
recitalu (locative singular)
recitalach (locative plural)
recitalu (singular vocative)
recitale (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English recital.

ubor

(music) recital (vocal, instrumental, or visual performance by a soloist)


rave

en-noun

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

→ Finnish: reivit (pl)

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rove.

der

Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops

2009, Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting, page 109:

(music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.


fake

en-verb

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

fakes (present singular third-person)
faking (participle present)
faked (participle past)
faked (past)

desc

→ Cantonese: fake (“to fool; to deceive”)

→ French: faker

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”); akin to Dutch veeg (“a swipe”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare also Old English fācn (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related also to Old Norse fjúka (“to fade, vanquish, disappear”), Old Norse feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).

unk

not known

m+

Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.

In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.

Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)

(music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.


skive

skiva (definite singular)
skiver (indefinite plural)
skivene (definite plural)

(music) a disc (UK) or disk (US), a record


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), equivalent to play + -er.

inh

(music) One who plays on a musical instrument.

One that plays
One who plays on a musical instrument.


motive

From Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus.

der

If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.

(architecture, fine arts, music) Alternative form of motif


reel

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.

[…]sample the famed waters from the Scottish mountains like a native born, and last but not least, play a reel on the bagpipes in the big hall that set all the laddies and lassies dancing.

The traditional reel Within a Mile of Dublin, for instance, distorts until it reaches something quasi-industrial.

2023 November 13, Patrick Clarke, “‘People’s idea of Irishness is so warped’: John Francis Flynn, the folk singer fighting for Dublin’s spirit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.


stave

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

Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.

(music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.


release

en-noun

release (countable and uncountable, plural releases)

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

отцепване

a device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required

(music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.


slam

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).

cog

(music, uncountable) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs.


tact

en-noun

tact (countable and uncountable, plural tacts)


suite

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.

(music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.

(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.


fret

From Middle English freten (“to bind”), from Old French freter, from frete (“ferrule, ring”) (modern French frette). The origin of the music senses are uncertain; they are possibly from frete or from fret (“to chafe, rub”).

The long-necked Egyptian Nefer was certainly depicted in the 4th dynasty; and wall-painting of the time of Moses, preserved in the British Museum, shows that it then had frets.

1880, A. J. H[ipkins], “LUTE”, in George Grove, editor, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450–1880) [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 175, column 2:

The frets of the lute marked whole tones, while those of the guitar were a semi-tone apart.

1916, “History of the Orchestra”, in Daniel Gregory Mason, editor-in-chief, Benjamin Lambord, editors, The Orchestra and Orchestral Music (The Art of Music: A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians; 8), New York, N.Y.: The National Society of Music, →OCLC, section III, page 69:

(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.

tast

one of the pieces of metal, etc., across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument


fret

en-verb

fret (third-person singular simple present frets, present participle fretting, simple past and past participle fretted)

frets (present singular third-person)
fretting (participle present)
fretted (participle past)
fretted (past)

to fret a guitar

To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).

Note that right next to the headstock, the boxes may utilize some open notes in place of fretting with the pointer finger because the nut will effectively fret the notes for you[…].

2015, Drew Turrill, “Step by Step Exercises”, in Don’t Fret – Learn Lead Guitar the Easy Way, [s.l.]: BookBaby, →ISBN:

(transitive, music) Musical senses.
To press down the string behind a fret.


fret

nl-noun

fret m (plural frets, diminutive fretje n)

frets (plural)
fretje (diminutive neuter)

(music) fret, on the neck on for example a guitar


psalm

From Middle English salm or psalme, from Old English psealm, later reinforced from Old French psalme (modern French psaume), both from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “the sound emanating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”) (from ψάλλω (psállō, “to make a sound by striking, touching, plucking, rubbing, twanging, or vibrating”)), but later in New Testament times the meaning of ψαλμός (psalmós) evolved from its Classical meaning of "a tune played to the harp" to a more general tune that could be played with any instrument; even a song sung with or without musical accompaniment. By the Byzantine Period, it lost all of its instrumental nuances.

Psalms

of the book of the Bible in which the psalms are collected

(religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.


psalm

nl-noun

psalm m (plural psalmen, diminutive psalmpje n)

psalmen (plural)
psalmpje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: psalm, posallem


psalm

pl-noun

psalm m inan (related adjective psalmowy)

psalmowy (adjective)
psalm (nominative singular)
psalmy (nominative plural)
psalmu (genitive singular)
psalmów (genitive plural)
psalmowi (dative singular)
psalmom (dative plural)
psalm (accusative singular)
psalmy (accusative plural)
psalmem (instrumental singular)
psalmami (instrumental plural)
psalmie (locative singular)
psalmach (locative plural)
psalmie (singular vocative)
psalmy (plural vocative)

(music, religion) psalm (a sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God)


spike

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

шпайкове

informal: running shoes with spikes in the soles


organize

en-verb

organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized)

organizes (present singular third-person)
organizing (participle present)
organized (participle past)
organized (past)
organize (infinitive)

From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.

to organize an anthem

Formerly , those Catholic priests who sung in parts : so to sing , was to organize

1828, Thomas Busby, A Complete Dictionary of Music:


rap music

(music) Hip-hop music, especially when focused on rapping.


wail

wail (third-person singular simple present wails, present participle wailing, simple past and past participle wailed)

wails (present singular third-person)
wailing (participle present)
wailed (participle past)
wailed (past)

c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.
The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14ᵗʰ c.. The noun came from the verb.

At Boston's Roseland, as "the Count's band was wailing," he grabbed Mamie, an avid dancer. The "band was screaming when she kicked off her shoes and got barefooted

1999, Lewis A. Erenberg, Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture, page 111:

The band was really wailing as we quickly made our dance moves in a most provocative manner.

2012, Robert Lewis Barrett, A Portrait of the First Born As a Child, page 377:

We had a nondenominational wedding, with a bunch of great Sufi musicians really wailing, and my wildly enthusiastic mother in attendance.

(slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.

jaulen

to perform with great liveliness and force (slang)


valor

From Late Latin valor, valorem (“value”), from Latin valeō (“I am strong”).

(music) value (the relative duration of a musical note)


valor

From Old Galician-Portuguese valor, from Late Latin valōrem, accusative of valor, from Latin valeō (“I am strong”).


punk

en-noun

punk (countable and uncountable, plural punks)

Uncertain. Possibly from punk ("rotten wood dust used as tinder", attested since 1678; see Etymology 2 below) to anything worthless (attested since 1869) and then to any undesirable person (since 1908).

gl

Who else... would have the nerve to actually begin a song with the line ‘Whatchew gonna do, mama, now that the roast beef's gone...?’ Man, that is true punk; that is so fucked up it's got class up the ass.

1972 November, L. Bangs, Creem, page 68:

(uncountable, music) Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums.


punk

(uncommon, music) a punk (member of the punk subculture, fan of punk rock)


punk

punk (nominative singular)
punku (genitive singular)
punkowi (dative singular)
punk (accusative singular)
punkiem (instrumental singular)
punku (locative singular)
punku (singular vocative)

(music) punk (social and musical movement)

(music) punk, punk rock (subgenre of rock music)


punk

punk (nominative singular)
puncy (nominative plural)
punki (derogatory nominative plural)
punka (genitive singular)
punków (genitive plural)
punkowi (dative singular)
punkom (dative plural)
punka (accusative singular)
punków (accusative plural)
punkiem (instrumental singular)
punkami (instrumental plural)
punku (locative singular)
punkach (locative plural)
punku (singular vocative)
puncy (plural vocative)

(music) punk, punk rocker (person who plays punk rock)

(music) punk, punk rocker (person who is a fan of punk rock)


ر

(music) D, Re (the second note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)

(music) Re (the second note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the supertonic)


slag

head

slag n (genitive singular slags, nominative plural slög)

slags (genitive singular)
slög (nominative plural)
slag (indefinite nominative singular)
slagið (definite nominative singular)
slög (indefinite nominative plural)
slögin (definite nominative plural)
slag (accusative indefinite singular)
slagið (accusative definite singular)
slög (accusative indefinite plural)
slögin (accusative definite plural)
slagi (dative indefinite singular)
slaginu (dative definite singular)
slögum (dative indefinite plural)
slögunum (dative definite plural)
slags (genitive indefinite singular)
slagsins (definite genitive singular)
slaga (genitive indefinite plural)
slaganna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse slag, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“hit, blow”).


strain

From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

cog

Yet Keats, though for so many years he has given nothing to the world, is understood to have devoted himself to the composition of an epic poem. Some passages of it have been communicated to the inner circle of his admirers, and impressed them as the loftiest strains that have been audible on earth since Milton’s days.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “P.'s Correspondence”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.

2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2024

(music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.

напев

music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.


trope

Japanese: トロープ (torōpu)

Korean: 트로프 (teuropeu)

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

der

Is not the trope of muſic, to avoid or ſlide from the cloſe or cadence, common with the trope of rhetoric, of deceiving expectation? Is not the delight of the quavering upon a ſtop in muſic, the ſame with the playing of light upon the water?

1765, Francis Bacon, “The Second Book of Francis Bacon: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 53:

If the antiphon comes to an end with the “Praeparatio” trope, a musical difficulty is presented by the trope’s cadence. Although the antiphon is in the E-plagal mode and the first three trope elements cadence on E, this trope cadences on G, a rare cadence tone in this mode.

1983, John G. Johnstone, “Beyond a Chant: ‘Tui sunt caeli’ and Its Tropes”, in Studies in the History of Music, volumes 1 (Music and Language), New York, N.Y.: Broude Brothers, →ISBN, pages 24–37; reprinted in Alejandro Enrique Planchart, editor, Embellishing the Liturgy: Tropes and Polyphony, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2016, →ISBN, page 138:

A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

troop

music: short cadence at the end of the melody

The eighty six-note segments were originally tabulated by Hauer and are the basis of his twelve-tone system. Each of [Josef Matthias] Hauer's tropes consists of two hexachords of mutually exclusive content, so that each pair of hexachords includes all twelve tones of the semitonal scale. Only eight hexachords may be associated in this way with their own transpositions. These generate the eight tropes illustrated in examples 141 and 128. Each of the remaining seventy-two hexachords must be paired with a dissimilar hexachord in order to form a trope.

1963, George Perle, “Simultaneity”, in Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 120:

twelve-tone technique
twelve-tone technique

A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.

The Torah was chanted in a loud and strong voice so that all could hear. This cantillation of the Torah—trope—is shown by musical notation which serves grammatical and exegetical functions, ta'amay hamikra or ta'amay n'ginah. They put down in a final form an oral tradition that had been maintained for centuries. The Ashkenazim today have six systems of cantillation, each reflective of the texts and time of chanting. For example, on Tishah B'av the tunes are sad and doleful; on Purim the trope resembles a speedy narrative; the readings of Yamim Nora'im are quite majestic, and so on.

1985, Steven M. Brown, “The Languages of Prayer”, in Stephen Garfinkel, editor, Higher and Higher: Making Jewish Prayer Part of Us, Department of Youth Activities, United Synagogue of America, →OCLC, section 3 (The Language of Music), page 45:

The trope does not appear on the handwritten Torah scroll, but the assignment of notes for each word was fixed long ago and is accepted by Jewish communities around the world; the trope now appears in nearly every Jewish printed Bible. […] The symbols that signify the trope for the Hebrew text were introduced at the end of the 10th century of the Common Era.

2006, Sara E. Karesh, Mitchell M. Hurvitz, “trope”, in Encyclopedia of Judaism (Encyclopedia of World Religions), New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 526, column 1:

(Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.

troop

music, Judaism: cantillation pattern or mark


Baroque

en-adj

Baroque (comparative more Baroque, superlative most Baroque)

more Baroque (comparative)
most Baroque (superlative)

Via French (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape) from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco and Sicilian baroccu, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verruca (“wart”), or possibly from the technical construction of scholastic logic, Baroco.

(art, music) From or characteristic of the Baroque period.

barokní

relating or belonging to the Baroque period


Baroque

(art, music) A period in western architecture, art and music from ca. 1600 to ca. 1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.


smooth jazz

(music, jazz) A modern form of jazz first developed in the 1970s that blends in elements of rhythm and blues.


traditional

en-noun

traditional (countable and uncountable, plural traditionals)

/tɹəˈdɪʃənəl/

/tɹəˈdɪʃnəl/

traditional grip
traditional grip#English

(informal, uncountable, music) Short for traditional grip.


disposition

disposition (countable and uncountable, plural dispositions)

From Middle English disposicioun, from Middle French disposition, from Latin dispositiōnem, accusative singular of dispositiō, from dispōnō. By surface analysis, dispose + -ition. Doublet of dispositio.

This small harpsichord has a 1 x 4' disposition.

The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:

Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:

(music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.


articulate

en-verb

articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)

articulates (present singular third-person)
articulating (participle present)
articulated (participle past)
articulated (past)

Articulate that passage heavily.

(music, transitive) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.


pathogenic

en-adj

pathogenic (comparative more pathogenic, superlative most pathogenic)

more pathogenic (comparative)
most pathogenic (superlative)

Melogenic music represents the wide middle area between the extremes of logogenic and pathogenic music.

2008, Curt Sachs, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West, page 42:

(music) Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.


delta blues

(music) A form of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States, generally featuring minimal instrumentation and song structure.


blues scale

The blues scale:
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(music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.


dubplate

From dub (“style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks”) + plate (“music record, usually vinyl”).

compound

You heard that new Danny Weed dubplate?

Their dub-plate (unreleased tracks on private pressings) battles are usually limited to JA [Jamaica] and the UK, but they have begun to invade the States with this unique form of entertainment.

1986 April, Roger Steffens, “World Beat”, in Bob Guccione, Jr., editor, Spin, volume 2, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Camouflage Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

The sound systems – the mobile reggae discos with their own d.j.s, their "specials" and "dub plates" (specially recorded rhythms owned by the system), their own local followings – are networks of live wires and speakers, sounds and affects.

1988, Dick Hebdige, “Post-script 1: Vital Strategies”, in Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (A Comedia Book), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 1990, →ISBN, section 4 (Postmodernism and “The Other Side”), page 215:

Various Artists, Soundclash Dubplate Style (Taurus Jamaica)

[1989 June, “Groove Me: 20 Recommended Current Albums and Reissues”, in Bob Guccione, Jr., editor, Spin, volume 5, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Camouflage Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66:

[Courtney] Cole, who finds his artists through talent shows held at his Ocho Rice Roof Club, says he tries out new tunes on a live audience "first on dubplate [special one-off mixes for sound systems and radio jocks], so we can test again before pressing it."

1993 July 10, Maureen Sheridan, “Secrets of the Dancehall Laboratory: Top Groovemasters Drop Science about Reggae’s Tuffest Trend yet”, in Timothy White, editor, Billboard: The International Newsweekly of Music, Video and Home Entertainment, volume 105, number 28, New York, N.Y.: BPI Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page R-20, column 4:

The dubplate is a Jamaican idea: seventies sound systems pressed up their own tracks in order to outdo their rivals. Similarly, jungle's top DJs, desperate for exclusive tracks, spend more than two hundred pounds a week on dubplates—either their own productions or tracks by kindred-spirit producers. Dubplates are also a way of testing out a new track on a club sound system, of seeing how the crowd responds and what scope is for improving the record.

1998, Simon Reynolds, “Roots ’n’ Future: Jungle Takes Over London, 1993–94”, in Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 264:

By the mid-1970s, companies had begun to release sneak previews of coming releases in dub form on acetates. These rare gems became known as ‘dub[-]plates’.

1999, Eugene Lange, “dub”, in edited by Peter Childs and Mike Storry, Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 163, column 2:

Mikey Dread defined the dub plate as "a little pre-release of the thing before it gets to the streets. Back in those days we didn't have CD burners where you could just go and get a copy. You'd have to wait months. So, the dub plate was just taking the same procedure from the mastering room [of the record manufacturing plant] and they just cut this little thing they called an acetate. They cut it right there [in the recording studio]."

2007, Michael E. Veal, “‘Every Spoil is a Style’: The Evolution of Dub Music in the 1970s”, in Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Music/Culture), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 51:

[A]t Duke Reid's Treasure isle studio the engineer Byron Smith had cut the dub-plate with the vocals accidentally turned down. After rocking the crowd with the original vocal pressing of the song, [Ruddy] Redwood played them this new voiceless version. The crowd went crazy, singing along, and he played the song so many times that night that by morning the acetate was worn out.

2006, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, “Reggae: Wreck Up a Version”, in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Headline Book Publishing, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 127:

Dubs originally referred to one-off acetates (eventually called dubplates) that were meant for previewing new music in the 1960s and the praise of an individual sound system in competitive sound clashes[…]. Dubplates are prerecorded endorsements of a particular sound by a reggae artist; they usually follow the melody or lyrics of a popular tune (sometimes a tune sung by that same artist), inserting the name of the sound system and praise for that sound system's skills[…]. In some cases, these improvised lyrics for a dubplate would be cut as records and sold or added to albums[…].

2022, Mark V. Campbell, “Dubbing the Remix and Its Uses”, in Afrosonic Life, New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 94–95:

(music, originally Jamaica) An acetate or vinyl record pressed in very limited numbers, especially one issued to disc jockeys in advance of an official release; specifically (and originally), one containing a piece of dub music (a style of reggae music, often instrumental, involving the mixing of different audio tracks).

dubplate

acetate or vinyl record produced in very limited numbers