soundtable

Coordinate term: soundboard

It has a short neck, a shallow oval wooden body, and a soundhole on the upper soundtable. The number of strings varies; four to eight bass (bunti) strings on the neck, plucked by the left hand, and seven to 30 metal strings (pidstrunki, tuned chromatically) across the soundtable, plucked by the right hand.

2014, Sofia Hrytsa, “Bandura”, in edited by Laurence Libin, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 219:

(music) A thin surface covering the opening of the sound box of a string instrument, which vibrates and amplifies the sound produced by the instrument.


Barbie pink

en-noun

Barbie pink (countable and uncountable, plural Barbie pinks)

From the trademarked color used in the packaging and branding of the fashion doll Barbie.

The only catch was that mine had a Barbie pink interior - not really my sort of thing at all, but to be honest, by this time it was the last of my worries.

2004, Jimmy Doherty, On the Farm, page 24:

OK, so now I was standing back from it, I appreciated that it was a bit splotchy and would definitely need a second coat of paint to get rid of the Barbie pink trying to shine through.

2006, Karen McCombie, Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets, page 117:

Sandra said she had decided on Barbie pink as her color.

2010, Jillian Conley, Maid of Honor, page 37:

Barbie pink:


zortziko

(music) A dance rhythm that originated in the Basque Country, with a distinctive 5/8 time signature consisting of three subdivisions of 1, 2, and 2 beats.


flutter-tongue

en-verb

flutter-tongue (third-person singular simple present flutter-tongues, present participle flutter-tonguing, simple past and past participle flutter-tongued)

flutter-tongues (present singular third-person)
flutter-tonguing (participle present)
flutter-tongued (participle past)
flutter-tongued (past)

He is very good at flutter-tonguing.

To play very fast rhythms using a wind instrument by fluttering one's tongue with a trill.


512th note

(music, US, rare) A note played for 1/512 of the duration of a whole note.


1024th note

[…] handles precise time distinctions (to a 1024th note). Many error correction and detection features are included in the program.

1970, Association for Computing Machinery, Proceedings of the National Conference (volume 25, page 330)

[…] 1024th notes in the first line of the "Thoreau" movement, an indication to the performer to play as fast as he can. (1024th notes are exceptionally rare in the musical literature.)

1979, Kenneth Ralph Gartner, The Expansion of Pianism Since 1945, page 42:

[…] 1024th notes, atonality, and unbarred sections.

1979, Harry Raphael Garvin, James M. Heath, The Arts and Their Interrelations, page 125:

(music, US, rare) A note played for 1/1024 of the duration of a whole note.


16th note

(music, US) Abbreviation of sixteenth note.


ars nova

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ars nova (literally “new art”). Compare art nouveau.

ubor

Coordinate term: ars antiqua

A musical style that flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages, particularly between the preparation of the Roman de Fauvel (1310s) and the death of composer Guillaume de Machaut in 1377.


8th note

(music, US) Abbreviation of eighth note.


windcap

(music) A covering for the reed in an instrument, limiting the range of playable notes and preventing overblowing.


hip house

A musical genre combining hip-hop and house music


kinura

(music) A kind of organ stop with a quacking or buzzing sound.


key change

(music) A change in key during a song or composition; a modulation.


hidden track

Nirvana was no stranger to hidden tracks. Nevermind featured the abrasive jam “Endless, Nameless,” which appeared ten minutes after the last song, the quiet and contemplative “Something in the Way.” In 1991 hidden tracks were relatively rare but, in the wake of Nevermind's success and influence, they began appearing everywhere.

2023, Jeff Gomez, There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record, McFarland, →ISBN:

A piece of audio that has been placed on a medium, typically a CD, in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener.


tune down

en-verb

tune down (third-person singular simple present tunes down, present participle tuning down, simple past and past participle tuned down)

tunes down (present singular third-person)
tuning down (participle present)
tuned down (participle past)
tuned down (past)

Tune down the guitar a bit, you're slightly sharp.

(music) To tune an instrument by decreasing its pitch


chantered

The zampogna is an Italian double-chantered bagpipe.

(music, chiefly in combination) Having a (specified kind or number of) chanter.


wubstep

(music) A subgenre of dubstep created by MDK, descended from 2-step garage.


NSG

Nuclear Suppliers Group
w:Nuclear Suppliers Group

Initialism of Nuclear Suppliers Group, an international organization.


dilruba

Borrowed from Hindustani دلربا / दिलरुबा (dilrubā).

A bowed string instrument of Indian origin, with a goatskin soundboard, sympathetic strings and twenty frets


lalove

(music) A bamboo flute from Central Sulawesi.


karignan

(music) An African percussion musical instrument composed of a metal slotted tube that is scraped or hit by a long rod.


Bristol sound

The Bristol sound is back—and what a thrilling resurgence. Between them, Tricky's Knowle West Boy and Portishead's Third reflect both the bleakness and industrial decay of my favourite city's less salubrious environs.

2008 September 22, Owen Adams, “The Bristol sound is back. So where's Mark Stewart?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) A sound influenced by dub and reggae produced in Bristol in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a precursor (and sometimes synonym) of trip hop.


thumb-over

Of guitar playing technique, extending the thumb over the top of the neck to fret the lowest string and the fingers to fret the other strings from beneath the neck.


Tay Tay

Reduplication of Tay, a clipping of Taylor.

As it turns out, I’m not the only dork in attendance tonight. It’s evident when I start Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off.” / “A little Tay Tay? I’ve so got this.” Camille stretches, like we’re in a boxing ring and she’s about to knock me out.

2019, Tracy Goodwin, Ice Hard (New York Nighthawks), New York, N.Y.: Loveswept, →ISBN:

I love that I can be in the shower and be like, “Alexa, play ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift,” and two seconds later I’m jamming out to Tay Tay.

2019, Rachel Hollis, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Leadership, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

Mum, my last big concert was Taylor Swift. April knew how much I loved Tay Tay when I was little, so she surprised me with the tickets.

2021, Claire Thomas, The Performance, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 190:

(fandom slang) Nickname of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (born 1989).


lyre-guitar

(music) A type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad instrument in the late 1800s.


beaty

en-adj

beaty (comparative more beaty, superlative most beaty)

more beaty (comparative)
most beaty (superlative)

[…] beaty track with some rock elements too.

2002, Future Music, numbers 126-130, page 103:

(informal, music) Having a pronounced beat.


flutophone

From flute + -o- + -phone; possibly originally a trademark.

Then he and Bob had to put off playing detective until they practiced on their flutophones.

2004, Nancy McArthur, The Mystery of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, page 81:

Our fifth grade teacher organized the class into a flutophone band. The ones we played were a two piece instrument. The mouth piece was red and the body of the instrument was white.

2010, Richard Donald Pietz, A Walking Miracle: Just For My Kids, page 33:

(music) A small wind instrument, resembling the recorder or clarinet, used in elementary music education.


lijerica

From Serbo-Croatian lijerica, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra, “lyra”).

A musical instrument from the Croatian region of Dalmatia and Croat parts of eastern Herzegovina.


mousy brown

mousy brown (comparative more mousy brown, superlative most mousy brown)

more mousy brown (comparative)
most mousy brown (superlative)

mousy brown:

(of hair) Of a light brunette color with cool, greyish tones.


xenharmony

Coined by Ivor Darreg, from xen- + harmony

(music) A genre of music characterized by the non-conformity to the common 12-tone equal temperament.


Hypolocrian

(music) Being or relating to the plagal counterpart to the Locrian mode.


coll'ottava

From Italian [Term?] (literally “with the octave”).

bor

(music) Having the notes played in two adjacent octaves simultaneously.


conscious rap

Ellipsis of socially/politically conscious rap.

ellipsis

In the late 1980s, a new generation of black university students enlisted the Afrocentrism of conscious rap in their interactions with both the white educational establishment and the black working class. Directed toward their professors, conscious rap became a tool in debates over the importance of multicultural education and African American Studies programs.

2019, Mitchell Ohriner, Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 128:

(music) A subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s, characterized by Afrocentricity and sociopolitical comments.


subminor

(music) An interval smaller in size than a minor interval but larger than the major interval preceding it.


harsh noise wall

Alternative form: (initialism) HNW

(music) An extreme subgenre of harsh noise music featuring noises layered together to form a consistent, static sound.


FACE

(music, mnemonic) A mnemonic phrase to help remember the order of the four spaces of a musical treble clef in order from the bottom to the top.


benthic black

en-noun

benthic black (countable and uncountable, plural benthic blacks)

benthic black:


owl bus

A bus that operates late at night, a night bus.


alone in the dark

alone in the dark (countable and uncountable, plural alone in the darks)

alone in the dark:


Scotch blue

Scotch blue:


Scotch blue

But there was no mistaking those eyes of hers, Scotch blue and uncompromisingly direct in their gaze.

1919, B.M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rim o' the World:


endless galaxy

endless galaxy (countable and uncountable, plural endless galaxies)

endless galaxy:


midnight in Tokyo

midnight in Tokyo:


abyssopelagic water

abyssopelagic water (countable and uncountable, plural abyssopelagic waters)

abyssopelagic water:


Vantablack

Vantablack (countable and uncountable, plural Vantablacks)

From VANTA (“vertically aligned carbon nanotube array”) + black.

af

(uncountable) A class of super-black coatings that absorb almost all light.

Vantablack:


sound table

(music) Synonym of soundboard (“part of instrument”)


AMVcore

From AMV + -core, because of its later prominence in anime music videos.

amvcore album where everything sounds like linkin park and evanescence

2015 March 4, easynam, Twitter, retrieved 2023-11-21:

Yeah I was listening to a lot of Scenecore, AMVcore, and Fourth Wave Emo/"Mall Emo" type stuff back then and even back then I never got the appeal for AA.

2018 December 16, MoogInRow, Last.fm, retrieved 2023-11-21:

I was already listening to the incredibly popular AMVcore songs (Skillet, Three Days Grace and Evanescence).

2022 November 22, tankdempsey_, Reddit, retrieved 2023-11-21:

(music, sometimes humorous) A hard alternative rock style that was popular in the 2000s and played by bands such as Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, and Evanescence.


black glaze

en-noun

black glaze (countable and uncountable, plural black glazes)

black glaze:


Hornbostel-Sachs

Devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs.

(music, chiefly attributive) A system of musical instrument classification based on the nature of the sound-producing material.


katarimono

A Japanese musical genre, that is usually accompanied with a biwa.


test pressing

(music) A vinyl record created during the production process to ensure the quality and accuracy of the final product.


AIC

(music) Alice in Chains, an American grunge band.


super-duo

(music) A duo formed of well-known musicians.


leadpipe

(music) The pipe or tube of a brass instrument into which the mouthpiece is placed.


Ring a Ring o' Roses

(music, dance, games) A traditional children's game involving dancing in a ring around a person in the middle.


oom-pah-pah

An oom-pah-pah bassline:
{\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"trumpet"\time3/4\tempo4=160\clef bass\repeat unfold2{c-.-.g,-.-.}}

(music) A variant of oom-pah played in triple time.


singout

(music) An informal singing event or concert, especially in barbershop music.


demi-caractère

(about a work for the stage or a performer's part in it, dated) Which, in the historical French nomenclature, was halfway between serious (sérieux) and comic (comique); typically, where the protagonists or the plot were not noble enough compared to those derived from mythology or history, but could still convey serious emotions (see for example the 1886 Camille Bellaigue quotation about Bizet's opera Carmen under French demi-caractère)


The Lick

The Lick on saxophone in E minor:
\relative c{\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"soprano sax"e8 fis16. g8 a16.\grace{e16}fis8. d8 e4~e2}

(music) A seven-note stock musical phrase in jazz, pop, and classical music.


SwiftTok

2021 November 17, Zoya Raza-Sheikh, “From SwiftTok to #Taylurking: How Taylor Swift redefined online fandom”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-03:

After Swift announced the upcoming release of a new album, Midnights, at the 2022 Video Music Awards, SwiftTok immediately began formulating theories on everything from what artists might be featured on the album, to what the songs would be titled, to what genre the record would dabble in

2022 October 17, Kevin Hurler, “What is 'SwiftTok'? Inside Taylor Swift's Rabid TikTok Fanbase”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2023-08-21:

The Travis Kelce quotes alone will keep SwiftTok busy for weeks.

2023 December 6, Sam Adams, “Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year, in Terrible News for Taylor Swift”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

The community of TikTok users who are fans of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.


Swiftmania

Swiftmania is a very different kind of high from what I experienced listening to music as a teenager — a high that is worth the pain. It's not just the plethora of songs to discover but the nonstop Swiftie culture itself — the constant access to the music, the news, the scrolling for swag, the shout-outs on the street, the sharing of songs and lines of poetic code via text or passed bracelet — a party that is raging all day and all night.

2023 June 17, Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, “Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

Depending on when you choose to arrive at SoFi, your immersion into Swiftmania can last anywhere between three hours (her set length) to six-plus (there are two opening acts each show, Gracie Abrams and Haim among them).

2023 August 2, Abigail Covington, “For true Swifties, the fun begins when the stadium gates open”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-19:

Can Swiftmania Finally Help Change the Kansas City Chiefs’ Name?

2023 October 1, CT Jones, “(article title)”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:

Enthusiasm for American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.


Swift Quake

The "Swift Quake" was recorded by the same seismic station, located just outside Lumen Field.

2023 July 28, Chang Che, “Taylor Swift-Quake: Fans Cause Seismic Activity at Seattle Concert”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-10:

She [Jackie Caplan-Auerbach] found that the "Swift Quakes" were longer and more powerful than the "Beast Quake."

2023 August 1, Sarah Kuta, “Taylor Swift Concerts Are Generating Seismic Activity”, in Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-17:

No longer am I the person who studies volcanoes. I'm the person who's known for the Swift Quake. It's totally ridiculous. People have asked: Has Taylor Swift reached out? No, Taylor Swift has not reached out.

2023 November 8, Robin George Andrews, quoting Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, “The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes”, in Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simons Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-27:

One of two minor earthquakes, occurring on July 22 and 23, 2023, caused by fans at a Taylor Swift concert.


Taylormania

But there may be some of you still struggling with a recent bout of Taylormania brought on by her acts of altruism, love of cats, and one. sick. beat. Well don't worry, you no longer have to suffer in silence, the crack pharmaceutical team at S.N.L. have your backs.

2014 November 2, Joanna Robinson, “’’Saturday Night Live’’ Offers up a Cure for All You Recent Taylor Swift Converts”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:

How to explain this degree of Taylormania?

2023 August 1, Mikael Wood, August Brown, “How Taylor Swift took over L.A. and the world”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-11:

The second verse of "Anti-Hero" takes on even more resonance in our current Taylormania era, where Swift has somehow become bigger than ever.

2023 October 22, Brian Hiatt, “Will Taylor Swift Do Another Eras Tour in 2033?”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-28:

Gaining full control of the recording copyright is the reason for Swift's indefatigable campaign to remake her first six albums. 1989 (Taylor's Version) is the fourth to be completed. The project steps up a gear now — for this is the Big One, the megahit that launched the first wave of Taylormania.

2023 October 26, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) — our critic changes his mind on the pop star’s magnum opus”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-27:


Swiftonomics

From Taylor Swift + -onomics. Coined by reporter Augusta Saraiva in a 2022 article, although isolated use exists earlier (see quotations below).

Swiftonomics: How Taylor Swift is Destroying the Music Business

[2013 February 13, stu, “(post title)”, in thiswontendwell.com, archived from the original on 2013-06-03:

Skyrocketing demand, limited supply, price gouging and monopoly accusations. And a customer willing to pay almost anything. ¶ Welcome to Swiftonomics.

2022 November 23, Augusta Saraiva, “Welcome to 'Swiftonomics': What Taylor Swift Reveals About the US Economy”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:

In Toronto, where the singer-songwriter will perform six shows at the Rogers Centre in November 2024, cultural and tourism experts say Swift could provide a much-needed boon to the city and a hospitality sector still recovering from the pandemic. But the "Swiftonomics," as the Swift-induced economic boost has been dubbed, could also bring some eye-watering price increases — and accusations of price gouging — for locals and tourists alike.

2023 August 9, Joshua Chong, “'Swiftonomics': Here's how Taylor Swift's Toronto concerts will impact the local economy”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-12:

Others concern themselves with Swiftonomics: where Taylor steps, businesses grow and bloom.

2023 September 30, Martha Gill, “When Taylor Swift reaps country-sized riches, other artists are squeezed out”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-24:

(neologism) The boost to local businesses caused by Taylor Swift concerts.


antitonal

en-adj

antitonal (comparative more antitonal, superlative most antitonal)

more antitonal (comparative)
most antitonal (superlative)

(music) Deliberately flouting the conventions of tonality.


twelve-note

twelve-tone technique
twelve-tone technique

(music) Using or relating to the twelve-tone technique.


Choralcelo

(music, historical) An early electronic organ with two keyboards.


oo oo aa aa

/ˈʔuːʔuː ˈʔɑːʔɑː/

/ˈʔuʔu ˈʔɑʔɑ/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

Holonyms: monkeyese, monkeyspeak

[He] asked to meet me in front of the monkey cage at the zoo in Jardin des Plantes. I'm standing there waiting, leaning against the fence eating licorice, when I hear behind me, "Oo, oo! Aa, aa!" And wouldn't you know, he's leaping up and down wearing a gorilla mask—and probably a two-thousand-euro Lanvin suit—doing monkey impressions, and he finishes by throwing himself into the bushes. I died laughing! What lunatic would be so elegant and so bananas?

2007, Kirsten Lobe, chapter 7, in French Trysts: Secrets of a Courtesan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 91:

The minute I start eating, two lads I can only describe as retards on Prozac started making monkey calls and picking on me. ‘Oo oo aa aa, hey monkey man, want a banana?’ Said one of them.

2011, Eddie Kwadjo Danso, “Living the Life”, in Cockney Zulu, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 78:

"He said he's got a pet monkey!" shouted Bobby. […] "Of course it doesn't talk!" interrupted Suzie Limpten, the class know-it-all. "They make noises, you know, like ooh-ooh, aah-aah!"

2012, Deshka Peneff, “Eric the Parrot”, in Monkey Tales, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 15 April 2013, →ISBN, page 17:

Max and Kai had fun and returned to play regularly. Finishing a rally, Max [a monkey] hollered, "Oo-oo, Aa-aa!"

2016, Oliver [Clyde] Chin, edited by Don Menn, The Year of the Monkey: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac = 十二生肖故事系列：猴年的故事 (Tales from the Chinese Zodiac; 11), San Francisco, Calif.: Immedium, →ISBN:

Planet of the Apes by George Racket / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ch-ch-ch-chimp, chimp, chimp in outer space / Said goodbye to the human race / The first on Earth to ever escape, / To find his very own personal p-p-p-planet of the apes.

2022, Tom Fletcher, “Track 5: Armstrong”, in Space Band, London: Puffin Books, →ISBN:

"See? There's only the two of us, and your Frankie wouldn't ever let anything happen to you. Okay? Now, eat your banana, little monkey." She nodded at Annabelle's hand. "Go ahead, Anna Banana." Annabelle looked down. […] "Oo-oo-aa-aa," she whispered.

2024, Robin W. Pearson, chapter 1, in Kathryn S. Olson, editor, Dysfunction Junction […], Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:

(onomatopoeia) Used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry.

u u á á

used to represent the sound of a monkey’s cry


angel fingers

(firefighting) Tongues of flame that are a sign of impending rollover.


accountant's lamp

en-noun

accountant's lamp (plural accountant's lamps or accountants' lamps)

accountant's lamps (plural)
accountants' lamps (plural)

Spencer has left the door to his study open. I turn on the green accountant's lamp. A thousand times I have come into this room, but never with the intent of finding something.

2003, Jodi Picoult, Second Glance, Atria Books export edition, Atria Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 237:


F-flat major

{\key fes\major fes'ges'aes'beses'cesdesesfes2}

(music) the theoretical major key with F-flat as its tonic and the notes F♭, G♭, A♭, B♭♭, C♭, D♭, and E♭.

(music) the major chord with a root of F-flat


G-sharp major

{\key gis \major gis'ais'bis'cisdiseisfisisgis2}

(music) The major key with the notes G♯, A♯, B♯, C♯, D♯, E♯, and F𝄪, the key signature of which has six sharps and one double sharp.

(music) The major chord with a root of G-sharp.


in the mix

(music) Acting as a deejay; mixing music


ear training

(music) A form of study of music theory study in which musicians learn aural skills to identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, solfeges, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing.


Guidonian hand

(music, historical) A mnemonic device to assist in learning sight singing, resembling a human hand divided into portions representing notes within the hexachord system.


completion string

completion string (plural completion strings)

The rig simply retrieves the old pipe and runs a new pipe back in the hole (the completion string).

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44:

(oil industry) A column of drill pipe that prepares the well for the transmission of production fluids.


whipline

Because the seas were a bit rough that morning the crane was using the whip line.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 45:

A cable, typically made of braided steel, used to lower and retrieve tools and instruments into oil or gas wells.


lounge singer

(music, entertainment) A singer, usually an amateur, who performs popular music influenced by swing and jazz, often played in cocktail lounges.


directional driller

directional driller (plural directional drillers)

There was a directional driller who I regularly ran into, a New Zealander by the name of Maurice.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 123:

An oil rig driller who directs the horizontal drilling process.


wildcat well

[L]ater BP were planning on drilling a wildcat well, or exploration well, in the same region probably with a semi-submersible rig.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 164:

(oil industry) An exploration well to determine the existence of petroleum in a probable hydrocarbon deposit.


Billy Pugh

Named after Billy Pugh, American deckhand who invented the device and founded the Billy Pugh Company in 1957.

The crew stood on the deck of the supply boat, waiting in silence for the crane to lower the "Billy Pugh".

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 199:

Billy Pughs were used at many lighthouses.

2008, Betty S. Veronico, Lighthouses of the Bay Area, Arcadia Publishing, page 42:

A type of personnel basket for transferring people between vessels or other structures at sea or over water.


Tinkerbell line

Tinkerbell line (plural Tinkerbell lines)

Usually set at a tragic angle, this line, called a "Geronimo" or a "Tinkerbell line", has a handle that you grab and hold onto as you ride the line down to safety[.]

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, page 67:


geronimo line

* From Geronimo, in reference to the interjection used by parachutists + line.

(oil industry) A zipline tethered from the top of a derrick to allow escape in case of emergency.


stabbing board

The derrickman releases the "stabbing board", a pivoting plank like a diving board, then walks out to the very end and, wearing a safety harness called a "belly buster", leans out at a horrific angle to make sure the pipe is lined up straight.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, page 68:

(oil industry) A temporary platform erected in a derrick on which a derrickhand stands to run in casing.


Jersey club

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music) A style of electronic dance music that originated in Newark, New Jersey, in the early 2000s, having an aggressive style with a fast, bouncy groove and the use of staccato, chopped samples, and heavy triplet kick patterns.


Brazilian phonk

Mr. Korine described the sound, an aggressive blend of Brazilian phonk with elements of trap music, South Florida rap, ’90s pop and metal, as something made by “gamers in favelas.”

2023 September 12, Katie Van Syckle, “Inside the Parties of Art Basel Miami Beach”, in The New York Times:

A subgenre of phonk that incorporates rhythms and elements from funk carioca and other traditional Brazilian musical genres.


sunwing

The common-wall opening was left uncovered, but the chill from the sunwing during cold nights was so noticeable that we decided to install pocket doors and insulate the remainder of the wall. Foss thus created a buffered sunwing, an addition outside the thermal envelope of the house.

Many of the hard-earned lessons of the solar home industry are being brought to bear on sunwing design.

1990, James Lawrence, The Harrowsmith Country Life Reader, page 58:

(rare) A solar greenhouse, sun porch or solarium added as an extension to a building, in order to provide a space that captures heat from sunlight.

While we still had the giant sunwings we traveled the world, exploring other continents from the air.

2003, Sean Mcmullen, Eyes of the Calculor:

Slowly, on parallel tracks into the breeze, the sunwings rolled off.

(science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.

A thousand random fragrances of morn Float from lush solitudes and leafy dells, While summer's sunwings rest on lake and tree.

1910, William Dowsing, Sheffield Vignettes: A Series of Sonnets, page 3:

A boy awakening under a plane-tree Whose bark peels every grade of green, With sunwings winking in-between?

1984, Francis Scarfe, Grounds for Conceit, page 8:


Nachthorn

From German Nachthorn (literally “night horn”).

bor

(music) A wide-scaled flute organ stop with a relatively small mouth, producing a soft but penetrating sound.


Maelzel's metronome

en-noun

Maelzel's metronome (plural Maelzel's metronomes)

Named after Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, who copied the design from Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel.

(music) A kind of mechanical metronome with a scale.


Mag and Nunc

/ˈmæɡ.ənˌnʌŋk/

Clipping of Magnificat + ellipsis of Nunc dimittis.

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis#English

(Anglicanism, music, informal) Contraction of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (“musical setting to be sung at evensong; especially when written and published as a pair”).


Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

(Anglicanism, music) A musical setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis to be sung at evensong; especially when written and published as a pair.


gyaling

Borrowed from Tibetan རྒྱ་གླིང་ (rgya gling).

bor+

(music) A horn used in Tibetan Buddhist and Mongolian Buddhist ceremonies.


bloghouse

From blog + house, referring to its propagation on the Internet.

(music) A subgenre of house music from the 2000s.


ravenette

He was caught off guard by the ravenette leaping into his arms, his wide eyes softening at the sobs reaching his ears.

2010, Ashley M. Carter, Devilry Hunters, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 84:

The green eyed ravenette grabbed Capgras’ bottle of Powers off the bar, raised it over her head and brought it down with a crash.

2012 fall/winter, Matt Fountain, “Holiday in Chesterport”, in Holiday Guide, San Luis Obispo, Calif.: New Times Media Group, page 53:

The moment his hand came in contact, the ravenette’s body twitched greatly as his face twisted in pain.

2014, The Chatman Sisters [i.e., Shellyta, Lora, Jessyka, and Zoe], Gifted Chains: Unlocked Beginnings, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 71:

“That's my boss lady. Smart, strong, and super sexy,” he said, giving the ravenette an exaggerated wink.

2018, Brandon Varnell, Enclave (The Executioner Series; 3), [s.l.]: Kitsune Incorporated, →ISBN, →OCLC:

The ravenette smiled. Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits. Following Tala, Amihan felt her heart sore. Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis.

2020 September, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14:

(rare) A raven-haired person (especially a woman).


Helmholtz resonance

(physics, acoustics) The phenomenon of air resonance in a cavity, occurring when air is forced in and out of the cavity, causing the air inside to vibrate at a specific natural frequency.


Tartini tone

Named after the violinist Giuseppe Tartini, who is credited with discovering these tones.

combination tone
combination tone#English


duple meter

(music) A musical meter characterized by a primary division of two beats to the bar.


Hypoaeolian

From hypo- + aeolian, coined by Henricus Glareanus (1547).

(music) Of or relating to the musical plagal mode on A, which uses the diatonic octave species from E to the E an octave above, divided by the final into a second-species fourth (semitone–tone–tone) plus a first-species fifth (tone–semitone–tone–tone): E F G A + A B C D E.


perfect time

Coordinate term: imperfect time

(music, historical) A system of timing in mensural notation in which a breve is equal to three semibreves.


deuterium bottleneck

(cosmology) A critical stage in the early universe's nucleosynthesis process, in which the temperature was high enough for many photons to have energy greater than the binding energy of deuterium; therefore any deuterium that was formed was immediately destroyed.


double bar

(music) a symbol, consisting of two ordinary bar lines or a single heavy one, that marks the end of a composition or a section within it


rustle time

(music, musicology) The average time interval between the clicks of a Geiger counter.


character piece

en-noun

character piece (plural character pieces)

That does not mean that all character pieces of this period present moods expressly, only that the musical term 'character' is not always telling for character pieces, to put it crudely.

2016, Erik Wallrup, Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music, page 36:

(music) A musical composition that expresses a specific mood or non-musical idea.


stop-time

(music, music theory) An accompaniment pattern interrupting, or stopping, the normal time and featuring regular accented attacks on the first beat of each or every other measure, alternating with silence or instrumental solos.


MGB

(music, historical) Initialism of Matthew Good Band.


march-movement

(music, music theory) The rhythm of a march, specifically duple or quadruple time.


quadruple time

(music, music theory) A time signature indicating four beats to the bar.


promotional copy

promotional copy (plural promotional copies)

(music, business) An audio or video recording distributed free of charge, usually in order to promote a recording that will soon be commercially available.


urlfest

playing at this urlfest, akifest on october 5th.

i hate urlfests now like i dont want to see actually talented ppl play at some shit called BUSSYFEST 2021

Oh yeah it's rad that Covid basically normalised smaller artists doing urlfests. I'm happy that all the big boys can do actual live shows again though.

2022 June 29, u/CucumberHorse21, “Online Festivals and showcases were the funnest highlight of my Covid lockdown”, in Reddit, r/pcmusic:

yes i hosted two urlfests. yes i purposefully avoid a solid third of the people i encountered from that time. yes i am also gorgeoius. yes i exist

sorry im bad at not shilling this: would u ever be interested in performing at something like a urlfest (possibly a charity one for a dog's birthday for instance)

2023 November 22, u/Doctor_Number_Four, “Frost Children AMA! or else...”, in Reddit, r/indieheads:

(Internet slang, music) An online music festival.


funkot

(music) An electronic dance music genre from Indonesia that combines eurodance and trance synths with the syncopated rhythm from dangdut koplo.


wombadelia

Blend of womb + psychedelia. Coined by Alternative Press' editor Dave Segal in 1992, to describe My Bloody Valentine's music.

When My Bloody Valentine released their debut album Isn't Anything in 1988 they essentially created a new genre of rock that one may venture to call "wombadelia". At once ethereal and sexual, oceanic and astral, blissed-up and fucked up, beautiful and noisy, […]"

1992 March, Dave Segal, “My Bloody Valentine: Rise of Wombadelia”, in Alternative Press, number 45, page 46:

My Bloody Valentine is another group you may want to investigate if you are into the pretty-female-vocal-mixed-with-powerful-rhythms-and-high-density-sound genre (known in some critical circles as "wombadelia").

1992 April 6, MXP...@psuvm.psu.edu, “Cranes”, in rec.music.misc (Usenet):

Then comes Comet's true forte: starry-eyed, slowcore webs of patiently brushed cymbals and madly reverberated guitar. At their best, on "Sputnik," the Stones' slow-burning waves of woozy wombadelia creep up and double over into melodic explosions of bombast and beauty.

2005 August 12, Michael Chamy, “Comet's Feathers From the Wing EP Review”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 24, number 50, page 61:

Alternative Press (magazine)
My Bloody Valentine (band)


depressive suicidal black metal

depressive suicidal black metal (uncountable)

depressive black metal
depressive black metal#English

(music) Synonym of depressive black metal


neoclassical darkwave

The leads, two thin girls with dark eyes and darker threads, unleashed a sticky brand of soul. With a blend of ethereal and neoclassical darkwave, they kicked off their set with a slow song about lost love, isolation and melancholy.

2010, Stephen Pytak, The Wild Damned, Mazz Press, page 144:

Her music's what they call "neoclassical darkwave." It sounds like a chorus of dark angels took their harps and violins and staged a revolt against heaven, all crashing, soaring and broody, layered over with Euphoria's smokey-smexy vocals.

2018, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, chapter 1, in Derailed: A Moribund Prequel Novella, Monster House Books, LLC, page 10:

Some other bands, like Dead Can Dance and In the Nursery, began incorporating elements of classical orchestral and chamber music to create a style known as classical darkwave.

2019, Eric S. Strother, edited by Janet Sturman, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, page 1304:

(music) A subgenre of darkwave that emerged in mid-1980s, characterized by a dark and melancholic atmosphere combined with elements of Western classical music.


wombadelic

The bass sound in today's jungle lacks the wobbly glee and wombadelic warmth of hardcore rave; instead, there's the sinister radioactive glow of the 'Dread Bass' sound, or dry, metallic, atonal B-lines that palpitate joylessly and tunelessly.

1996 May, Simon Reynolds, “Wargasm: Militaristic imagery in popular culture”, in Frieze, number 28:

At times, it adds up to an earthier version of My Bloody Valentine's wombadelic bliss, most apparent on the standout "Electric Surgery."

2000 November 24, Michael Chamy, “Experimental Aircraft (Devil in the Woods)”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 20, number 13:

The band’s playing cuts off their new album MAKE OUT ROOM (release date TBA). They do what Black Kids are doing, but rather than lean on the wombadelic shoegazer side, they tend more towards Gary Numan. In such a good way.

2010 May 17, “New Wave rockers LIVING DAYS play a free show tonight at Silverlake Lounge”, in Music Zeitgeist, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

To this day, listening to Loveless feels like swimming in a warm bath of opiates and lust. It’s a primal, wombadelic, every-direction, every-color echo of what it feels like to be human, to be a mess of synapses, sexual desire, anxiety, obsession, fears, and hopes.

2013 February 16, Jonathan Patrick, “Review: My Bloody Valentine, m b v”, in Slant Magazine, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

Is there anything more comforting than drone? It’s the wombadelic sound of pre-ego existence, the sonic warmth of a life free from the burdens of the world, music awash in the primal need to express our thoughts through sound.

2013 May 3, Jonathan Patrick, “sunn 0))) entire discography up for free streaming on Bandcamp; this will forever be newsworthy”, in Tiny Mix Tapes, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

As tempting as it is to indulge my wee-lad love of all things dream pop and compare Star’s fresh take on shoegaze to early-90s wombadelic practitioners

2020 October 29, Steve Krakow, “Chicago trio Star become modern noise-pop greats on Violence Against Star”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

(uncommon, music) Pertaining or related to wombadelia; shoegazey.


touring member

Pino Palladino, the Welsh bassist ... who is now a permanent touring member of the Who.

2009 June 14, Graeme Thomson, “Pop stars anonymous”, in The Observer, London:

White was a touring member of Green Day from 1999 until 2012, playing lead guitar at the majority of their live shows. In late 2012, he became the official fourth member of the band.

2014 December 6, Brian Kraus, “Green Day guitarist Jason White diagnosed with tonsil cancer”, in Alternative Press magazine:

After playing on many Beach Boys sessions, Mr. Campbell became a touring member of the band in late 1964, when its leader, Brian Wilson, decided to leave the road to concentrate on writing and recording. He remained a Beach Boy into the first few months of 1965.

2017 August 8, Michael Pollak, “Glen Campbell, Whose Hit Songs Bridged Country and Pop, Dies at 81”, in The New York Times:

(music) A person, not credited as a full member of a music group, who performs as part of the group while it is on tour


xuc

(music) A danceable traditional music style from El Salvador developed in the 1940s; a dance related to said style.


mashcore

(music) A subgenre of breakcore characterised by an extensive use of pop music samples, playful melodies and hard kicks.


hardcore breaks

(music) An electronic music style emerged in the 2000s, inspired by old school breakbeat, while being fused with modern production techniques .


acoustic rock

rock music played acoustically, i.e. on an acoustic guitar


time-point set

(music) A temporal order of pitches in a tone row indicating the instants at which the notes begin.


slow time

slow time (countable and uncountable, plural slow times)

(military, music) A slow marching pace, consisting of about sixty to eighty paces per minute, traditionally used at funerals and on ceremonial occasions.


hexd

(music) An electronic genre characterized by significantly distorted vocals, altered to be faster and higher-pitched, and with the heavily compressed and distorted production.


prick of perfection

prick of perfection (plural pricks of perfection)

(music) The dot placed after a musical note to increase its length by a half.


tearout

He's got a bunch of tearouts on the finished side. It's cheaper and easier to redo it than to patch it, but the job's unprofitable either way.

The heartwood gave consistently better results than the sapwood, in fact nearly all the tearouts and most of the rough cutting were found in the sapwood.

1949, E. M. Davis, “Shaping the End Grain of Redwood for Core Stock”, in United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, editor, Reports, page 11:

Tearout can also occur below the final depth of cut.

2002, Gary Rogowski, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery, page 21:

This slot is a hot zone for tearout because it creates an unsupported surface for the material being cut.

en:damage at exit side of drilled hole or sawn edge

(carpentry, woodworking) Synonym of blowout.


perfect chord

(music) A concord or union of sounds of three or more simultaneous notes according to the rules of harmony.


Moonite

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


axatse

A rattle-like percussion instrument made from a gourd covered with a net with beads or cowry shells at its junctions.


simple time

(music) A musical rhythm characterized by two or three beats to a measure.


cibell

The cibell was the English name for a duple meter tune beginning and ending at the half bar, as in the gavotte. It derived from the "Descente de Cybelle" in Lully's operat Atys (1676)[…]

2007, Kate Van Winkle Keller, Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789, Pendragon Press, page 198:

(historical) a gavotte-like musical piece in duple metre, predominantly heard in Baroque music.


vampire time

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-vampire time.wav

In the night, in the smoky smoky night: vampire time. Rebop syncopate do the dirty bop, request "Sixty-Minute Man," hear the Shammies, sing the song.

1981, Beverly Lowry, Daddy's Girl, page 164:

The stars were twinkling on, and the moon rising. Vampire time, the beginning of the night.

It's summer vampire time, 3:47 a.m., and I'm dancing, listening to "Ragas on Slide Guitar" on the CD player.

2005, Maggie Jaffe, Esther Rodriguez, Roque Dalton Redux: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose, page 60:

(informal) Night; the time when there is no sunlight.

In vampire time Aleya had not really been around that long, but the sound, the scent, the routines that were uniquely her were missing. He missed her.

2010, Oliver Bonewits, Of Blood And Magic - A Vampire's Story, page 215:

Ah, she was young in real time or vampire time?

2016, Kathryn Meyer Griffith, The Last Vampire, page 214:

Such elaborate patterning is made possible by vampire time and enables both stasis – the male vampire's desire for his true love remains unchanged over the years – and change – the object of that love may actually change as it is switched from one female to another.

2016, Lorna Jowett, Kevin Robinson, David Simmons, Time on TV, page 130:

He was younger than Nikolai by a few hundred years which, in vampire time, was not that much.

2020, Isadora Brown, The Vampire's Executioner:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.

Time, when considered relative to a vampire's immortal lifespan.

Even before this verbal utterance, the clock strikes one, the lonely caretaker looks up, the bats fly through the trees, a shrouded figure glides across the rooftops, and a scream is heard. These events tell the audience, "Boy it sure is vampire time tonight ! "

1976, CinemaTexas Program Notes, page 75:

Sooner or later, it would be vampire time for her.

2009, Susan Squires, Time For Eternity, page 3:

Finally it was the vampires turn to attack. […] It was vampire time now.

2011, Nick Armbrister, “Finland Station Soviet Style”, in Heart of the Country Short Story Collection, page 51:

The problem is that this was supposed to be my vampire time, not Cousin Carlo time. I don't suppose you know of any Italian vampires?

2018, Katie Macalister, The Vampire Always Rises:

Vampire time! Know thy enemy. Out with the cross, in with the steaks, and all that stuff.

2018, Craig Steele, Time's Up. She's Breaking the Ice, page 203:

The time at which one encounters a vampire.


octarine

See octa-, -ine. Coined by author Terry Pratchett for his Discworld series.

[…] colors like octarine, the eighth color, an elusive spectral mix that's hard to describe and impossible to perceive. That's the thing about color. Try describing a rainbow or a sunset to a blind person or ask a synesthete[…]

2010 January 14, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 13:

Back in ScienceFictionaLand, octarine is the color of magic, an animating force in the Diseworld series by Terry Pratchett. A fluorescent, greenish-yellow purple, octarine can only be detected by wizards and cats.

2013 September 17, Jude Stewart, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 129:

Another way of looking at the magical character customization option [in which players choose their color] is that it allows players to find their own octarine, the color of their own magical self in Peter Carroll's vision of things. Octarine is a fictitious eighth color of magic invented by Terry Prachett in his novel The Colour of Magic and later used by occultist Peter Carroll in Liber Kaos to describe the color of a magician's rebellious, mischievous sorcerous self[…]

2014 April 22, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Octarine, the color of magic, glows from your finished pages.

2017 April 25, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

The eight types of magic can be attributed to the seven classical planets, plus Uranus for octarine. […] Following Prachett's hypothesis (and many a useful thing is said in jest), the eighth color of the spectrum, which is the magician's personal perception of the color of magic, may be called octarine. […]

2023 July 3, Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos: Chaos Magic for the Pandaemonaeon (Revised and Expanded Edition), Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 87:

(chiefly fiction) The color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.


HK-pop

From HK (“Hong Kong”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.


corrido tumbado

(music) A music style derived from traditional corridos featuring trap's lyrical flow and subject matter.


mash up

en-verb

mash up (third-person singular simple present mashes up, present participle mashing up, simple past and past participle mashed up)

mashes up (present singular third-person)
mashing up (participle present)
mashed up (participle past)
mashed up (past)

The DJ mashed up Britney Spears and Daft Punk.

(transitive, music) To remix two or more songs together into one.


baritone clef

(music) An F clef placed on the third line of a five-line staff, used for the left hand of keyboard music or for baritone parts in vocal music.


organoneptunium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon-to-neptunium bond.


neptunocene

en-noun

neptunocene (countable and uncountable, plural neptunocenes)

(organic chemistry) The actinocene cyclooctatetraenide with chemical formula Np(C₈H₈)₂.


plutonocene

plutonocene (countable and uncountable, plural plutonocenes)

(organic chemistry) The actinocene cyclooctatetraenide with chemical formula Pu(C₈H₈)₂.


progressive jazz

(music) A form of big band music that is more complex or experimental, originating in the 1940s.


atomgrad

/ˈætəmˌɡɹæd/

Borrowed from Russian атомгра́д (atomgrád), from а́том (átom, “atom”) + град (grad, “city”).

bor+

(Soviet Union, historical) A planned city built to facilitate the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant or other nuclear facility in the Soviet Union.


midtempo bass

(music) an electronic dance music style which features harsh synth leads and a usual tempo of around 90-110 bpm.


city pop

From Japanese シティ・ポップ (shiti poppu), itself from English city pop.

(music) a form of Japanese pop music that emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in popularity during the 1980s, including influences such as funk, disco, R&B, AOR, soft rock, and boogie, and associated with the country's nascent economic boom and leisure class.


rawstyle

(music) a hardstyle subgenre which features a distinctly harsh, simplistic, raw, and dark sound, with fast bpm.


flashcore

(music) an electronic music style that grew out of speedcore and industrial hardcore, characterized by wandering soundscapes, scattered rapid short-duration sounds, complex avant-garde structures and abstract sounds.


future garage

(music) A UK garage subgenre that incorporates elements from 2-step garage, characterized by jittery, broken rhythms, vocal chops, and warm synth pads and plucks.


barber beats

Coined by Aloe City Wrld music label, when describing the production style of Haircuts for Men.

People still trying to dismiss barber beats as “low effort” fail to realize that most of the high effort stuff, or even the sample free nonsense, misses the point of vaporwave entirely. I bet when it started, real musicians felt the same about the scene as a whole.

2022 December 8, @derivativenc, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-03-16:

Capturing the elements of Vaporwave with the utilization of warm soul samples and Lo-Fi Hip-Hop in musical arrangement, Barber Beats prominently provided a new yet, familiar taste.

2023 January 7, Jeremy Adrian Eudin, Village Pipol, archived from the original on 2024-03-16:

i never really got into barber beats, for some reasons pad touched on in his video, and also some other things that weren't discussed.
the artwork is cool though.

2024 March 15, @nmeshofficial, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-03-16:

(music) a chillout style that emerged in mid-2010s, heavily inspired from vaporwave techniques, downtempo, trip hop and instrumental hip hop.


future funk

A lot of people would say that future funk just rips off the original song, but I disagree. It brings a new meaning and feeling to it. There’s a lot more effort put into it than a lot of people think. It also brings a lot of attention to the original song.

2019 November 12, Margaret Cataldi, “Classical composer explains future funk”, in The Prospector, archived from the original on 2020-12-18:

Where many future funk producers make soundtracks for kawaii dance halls and coastal drives, SUI UZI's feels more at home at a darkening club after last call, or on a lonely drive home from a first date gone wrong.

2020 February 20, deliriously...daniel, “A Twilit Trist: Looking Back at SUI UZI's Night Songs Trilogy”, in Private Suite Magazine, number 11, page 25:

This can include the use of looped GIF animations and manipulated pop music tracks in Future Funk YouTube videos, which adapts eighties pop culture from Japan to the Vaporwave style of lo-fi and retro remixes and samples.

2023 October 15, Daniel Johnson, Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan, Cornell University Press, page 30:

(music) a house offshoot which emerged from vaporwave in the early 2010s, characterized by reverb effects, more rhythmic structures, and often, vocal samples from city pop and anime.


triple stop

(music, stringed instruments) An instance of three notes being played simultaneously.


quadruple stop

(music, stringed instruments) An instance of four notes being played simultaneously.


virtual duet

Her song featured a virtual duet between her and Frank Sinatra, through sampling several of his songs.

(music) A duet created from combining two separate and unrelated performances (as opposed to a single performance featuring two people).


Berlin white

From its supposed origin in Berlin, Germany.

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in paints”)


Vienna white

From its supposed origin in Vienna, Austria.


Nottingham white

From its supposed origin in Nottingham, England.


slate white

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


Crems white

(dated) Alternative form of Krems white.


Krems white

A calque of German Kremsweiss, from its original production from exceptionally pure white lead produced by galena mines near Krems, Austria.

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in painting”)


(physics) An isotope of cobalt, ⁶⁰₂₇Co, with a half-life of 5.2 years; it beta-decays into nickel-60 (⁶⁰Ni) and is a potent source of gamma rays.


HTTT

(music) Initialism of Hail to the Thief. (Radiohead album).


Descartes Highlands

A region on the Moon. Apollo 16 landed there.


dungeon synth

(music) a genre of electronic music that merges elements of black metal and dark ambient that emerged in the early 1990s.


crow-black

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crow-black.

Jet-black, raven, as black as the feathers of a crow.


grindage

There's plenty of punishing grindage on the Brooklyn quartet's fifth album, The Coma Imprint.

2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 8, page 110:

(music, slang) The grindcore style of music.


imperfect time

Coordinate term: perfect time

(music, historical) A system of timing in mensural notation in which a breve is equal to two semibreves.


keller synth

(music) a subgenre of dungeon synth, close related to tänzelcore


18th century green

en-noun

18th century green (countable and uncountable, plural 18th century greens)

18th century green:


Midwest emo

(music) a subgenre of emo which employs unconventional vocal stylings, distinct guitar riffs and arpeggiated melodies, drawing on indie rock and math rock approaches.


Dariacore

From Daria + -core, coined by Jane Remover for her 2021 album Dariacore, after character Daria Morgendorffer from adult animated sitcom Daria.

There's already a crop of new artists making diverse variations of the dariacore style of spliced sounds and berserk beats

2021 November 24, Kieran Press-Reynolds, Business Insider, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:

“Dariacore” isn’t just a single artist’s mixtape series; it’s an entire genre in and of itself, taking hyperpop’s silliest tendencies to their logical conclusions by weaving in vocal samples[…]

2022 May 23, Raphael Helfand, The Fader, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:

dariacore is difficult i feel like im learning hyperpop for the first time all over again except its harder

2022 August 11, @desuc0re, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:

“Hyperflip”, or as it’s commonly known, “Dariacore,” is my favorite trend in electronic music at the moment. Its mindmelting blend of Hyperpop, EDM, 2000’s pop samples, and Jersey Club is truly something to behold.

2023 February 7, DMC Woodstock, WKNC 88.1 FM, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:

there’s dariacore rave tn but all signs pointing me not to go bc life is so #LeSigh

2024 April 5, @HOAPISS, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:

(music) A genre of electronic music related to hyperpop, which features prominent vocal samples, chaotic and distorted production, and influences from future bass, mashup, nightcore and Jersey club.

Daria
Daria Morgendorffer
Dariacore (album)


rigsar

Borrowed from Dzongkha རིག་གསར་ (rig gsar, “new idea”).


synth bass

en-noun

synth bass (countable and uncountable, plural synth basses)

(music) The use of a synthesizer for a bassline.


coon song

(US, music, historical) A song in a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people.


talkloid

Borrowed from Japanese トークロイド (tōkuroido); (analyzable as) blend of talk + VOCALOID.

bor+

(fandom slang) the art of producing speech using the VOCALOID singing voice synthesis software


vocaboomer

(fandom slang) someone who entered the VOCALOID fandom prior to ~2015


música cebolla

(music) A genre of Chilean music emphasising sentimentality and intimacy.


Cubatón

Borrowed from Spanish cubatón, a blend of Cuba + reggaetón.

(music) A variation of reggaeton from Cuba.


Venetian white

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Venetian ceruse.


harpejji

Blend of harp + arpeggio. Coined by American audio engineer Tim Meeks in 2007.

coinage

While playing the harpejji (a relatively new instrument that mashes up guitar and keyboard), he made a speech about equality and love and then sang Curtis Mayfield’s ”People Get Ready,“ segued into the instrumental lark “Tequila” and topped it off with a taste of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.”

2015 March 30, Jon Bream, “Concert review: Stevie Wonder at Target Center: Just a wonderful performance”, in Star Tribune, archived from the original on 2024-04-18:

The company has sold about 500 harpejjis since 2019, the same number sold in the previous 12 years combined — no doubt helped by ongoing exposure and public adoration from Wonder, as well as musicians like Harry Connick Jr., who played a harpejji at last year’s lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree,[…]

2022 June 7, Danny Freedman, “What it takes to invent a new musical instrument”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2024-04-05:

This was a turning point for Meeks, who has built and sold harpejjis from a workshop in Maryland since 2007. Initially, sales were slow. But a decade’s worth of harpejji performances by Wonder – plus support from Jacob Collier, Harry Connick Jr and jazz producer Cory Henry – have changed that.

2023 August 16, Alex Daniel, “‘If Stevie Wonder wants to play it, pay attention!’: how a bizarre new instrument found unusual success”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-08-23:

(music, neologism) An electrophonic string instrument.


Otamatone

ō-täʹmä-tōn′

/əʊˈtɑː.mɑːˌtəʊn/

ō-täʹmä-tōn′

Borrowed from Japanese オタマトーン (otamatōn, “Otamatone”), from a blend of オタマジャクシ (otamajakushi, “ladle, tadpole”) + トーン (tōn, “tone”).

blend

Tosa for example performed on his then newest item, the Otamatone.[…]Otamatone is a saxophone-shaped plastic instrument, 27 cm tall, and battery-powered.

2014 March 31, Sarah M. Schlachetzki, Fusing Lab and Gallery: Device Art in Japan and International Nano Art, Transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 35:

The humble Otamatone is a cute (or aggressively annoying... to each their own) instrument that makes digital synthesizer-like noises when you tap or slide your finger along the neck.

2018 May 29, Thuy Org, “This Kirby Otamatone is the musical instrument you need”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2018-03-29:

[…]long shelves filled with robot parts, circuit boards, audiovisual equipment, and Otamatones—small, tadpole-shaped synthesizers from Japan.

2021 April 20, Gregg Behr, Ryan Rydzewski, When You Wonder, You’re Learning: Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids, Hachette Books, →ISBN:

(music, neologism) An electronic musical synthesizer.


talking blues

en-noun

talking blues (countable and uncountable, plural talking blues)

From the song “Talking Blues”, recorded by Chris Bouchillon in Atlanta in 1926.

The talking blues were first recorded in 1926, performed by a mandolinist named Chris Bouchillon.

2005, Dick Weissman, edited by Richard Carlin, Blues, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 232:

If Guthrie's talking blues are comedic powerhouses, the same can surely be said of his singing blues.

2019, Will Kaufman, Mapping Woody Guthrie, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 26:

(music) A form of folk music characterized by rhythmic speech or near-speech where the melody is free, but the rhythm is strict.


dreamgaze

Can't say I agree with it, but it sure was well written and well informed. I guess everything depends on one's propensity for this new ethereal, atonal, industrial, dreamgaze style.

2000 October 5, FRED of LA, “Kid a.”, in alt.music.alternative (Usenet):

2018 March 6, Jude Noel, “Amidst work with her Dreamgaze band Soften, Cincinnati’s Brianna Kelly releases new Ambient Folk project”, in CityBeat, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

Living Hour first came together in a Winnipeg basement in 2015. An appearance on a British compilation that year and a limited cassette release of the group’s debut album led to Portland, Oregon indie label Lefse re-releasing the LP, which helped attract the attention of Dreamgaze fans worldwide fairly quickly.

2019 March 1, Mike Breen, “Dazzling Canadian Indie Rock/Dreamgaze Band Living Hour to Play Free Concert in Cincinnati on Heels of Stellar New LP's Release”, in CityBeat, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

No Swoon is a dreamgaze band based in Brooklyn, New York.

2020 February 19, “Interview: No Swoon”, in Good Album Friday, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

Ash of the Womb is a dreamgaze beauty that is darkly elegant. Shantel Amundson’s vocals are haunting and perfectly encapsulates the themes of the album which center on our impact on the environment and the 2021 devastating fires in California where she resides.

2022 January 14, Angela, “Best of 2021: Angela’s List”, in Nine Circles, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

Close to be Close to Me is a 2016 song by Swedish self-described showgaze^([sic])/dreamgaze band, Echo Ladies, taken from their self-titled EP.

2022, Louise Harris, Composing Audiovisually: Perspectives on audiovisual practices and relationships, Routledge, page 173:

The four-member "dreamgaze" band Tierpark has two final shows in Seoul this weekend and Busan next weekend, before two of its core members move away.

2023 July 18, Jon Dunbar, “Tierpark plans final Korea tour before going on hiatus again”, in The Korea Times, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

(music) A mixture of dream pop and shoegaze.


B-reel

B-reel (usually uncountable, plural B-reels)

The separate reels of a multiple-chain story are given letter designations: A-reel, B-reel, C-reel.

[1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 120:

The story usually (but by no means always) opens with an A-reel shot of the reporter who by narration establishes the shot. Then picture and sound move to the second chain (B-reel) to show actuality, the actuality picture sometimes being bridged at some points by the sound of narration on the A-reel.

1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 135:

Begin matching the original with the work print by placing the first shot of the original on one reel (the “A” reel) and the second shot on another reel (the “B” reel). Continue alternating from the A reel to the B reel as you conform.

1974, George Glenn, Super 8 Handbook, page 176:

When the timing goes from a B reel to an A reel, the composer should be aware of how to write for this situation. The music in the outgoing reel should end at the end of the reel.

1980, Milton Lustig, Music Editing for Motion Pictures, page 38:

(television, film, music) The second piece of film or audio or video tape in a situation (as editing or broadcasting) where multiple inputs are used.


handpan

Blend of hand + steelpan, coined as a generic alternative to Hang, late 2000s.

While I grew up playing brass musical instruments, I gravitated to percussion as a side music hobby as a teen and later began to collect and play African drums and other interesting percussion instruments, such as steel handpans.

2016, Jeff Grant, Flow State Runner: Activate a Powerful Inner Coach's Voice, Hillseeker Publishing, →ISBN, pages 53–54:

(music) A type of steelpan that is played with the hands, typically resting on the player's lap.


fade time

fade time (countable and uncountable, plural fade times)

Omitting this parameter invokes a default fade time, which is 1,000 milliseconds.

2015, Michelle M. Fernandez, Corona SDK Mobile Game Development, page 183:

The time is used to assign a fade time to a cue.

2019, J. Michael Gillette, Michael McNamara, Designing with Light: An Introduction to Stage Lighting:

If the fade time is set to ten seconds, then they will fade up their intensity over a ten second crossfade. Changing the fade time of the cue will adjust the fade time for all parameters stored within that cue.

2021, Brad Schiller, The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook:

(light engineering, sound engineering) The amount of time for light or sound from a specified source to fade in from nothingness to the maximum that one is using, or to fade out from the maximum to nothingness.

light engineering; sound engineering; light engineering; sound engineering


compound common time

(music, music theory) The occurrence of two bars of triple time joined as one, followed by a bar of six-eight, and containing a dotted minim.


kindie

(music) A style of children's music that melds the sensibility of the singer-songwriter with themes aimed at children under 10 years old.


piano-violin

(historical, music) A keyed musical instrument resembling a piano, having a moving cylinder that causes the strings to vibrate.


Time Unit Box System

(music, music theory) A system for notating events that happen over a period, mostly used for notating rhythms in music.


time-span reduction

(music, music theory) A subset of the generative theory of tonal music, based on information gleaned from metrical and grouping structures, in which tree structure-style hierarchical organizations are established, uniting timespans at all temporal levels of a work.


waltz time

waltz time (countable and uncountable, plural waltz times)

three-quarter time
three-quarter time#English


confinement time

confinement time (countable and uncountable, plural confinement times)

autoignition temperature
autoignition temperature

(nuclear physics) The amount of time the plasma is maintained at a temperature above the critical autoignition temperature; in this case the temperature needed to start a fusion.


Hypoionian

(music) Being or relating to the plagal mode on C, which uses the diatonic octave species from G to the G an octave higher, divided at its final, C.


nares-jux

Borrowed from Northern Khanty нарс йўх (nars jŭh).

bor+

string musical instrument
string instrument

Khanty and Mansi national string musical instrument — “Siberian lyre”


quintuple meter

en-noun

quintuple meter (countable and uncountable, plural quintuple meters)

(music) A musical meter characterized by five beats in a measure.


mensural notation

mensural notation (countable and uncountable, plural mensural notations)

(music, historical) A musical notation system used for polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th century until the early 17th century.


three-four time

three-four time (countable and uncountable, plural three-four times)


two-four time

two-four time (countable and uncountable, plural two-four times)

(music) A time signature indicating that each measure is equal to two quarter notes.


reverberation time

reverberation time (countable and uncountable, plural reverberation times)

(acoustics) The amount of time required for a sound to dissipate or decay in a closed space.


H-pop

From H (“Hindutva”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.

On another occasion, H-pop singer Kanhiya Mittal sang a duet with a BJP lawmaker whose lyrics read “the saffron is getting deeper”, a reference to the colour of Hinduism and the BJP's own party colours, […]

2024 May 4, John Reed, “How to interpret India?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

(music) Hindutva pop music; Indian nationalist pop music.


whispering-gallery wave

whispering-gallery wave (plural whispering-gallery waves)

(acoustics) A type of wave that can travel around a concave surface.


thorium dioxide

(inorganic chemistry) An oxide compound of thorium with the chemical formula ThO₂.


uranium trioxide

(inorganic chemistry) An oxide compound of uranium with the chemical formula UO₃.


uranium dioxide

(inorganic chemistry) An oxide compound of uranium with the chemical formula UO₂.


uranium nitrate

(inorganic chemistry) A nitrate salt of uranium with the chemical formula UO₂(NO₃)₂.


time-delay spectrometry

(engineering, acoustics) A method of measurement used to measure the system response of an electroacoustic system.


thorium chloride

(inorganic chemistry) An inorganic chloride compound of thorium with the chemical formula ShCl₄.


Forbush effect

Named after American physicist Scott E. Forbush.

coronal mass ejection
coronal mass ejection

(astrophysics) A rapid decrease in the observed galactic cosmic ray intensity following a coronal mass ejection.


Malter effect

Named after American physicist Louis Malter.

(uncommon, physics) The establishment of a positive charge on the surface of a thin insulating layer due to the secondary emission of electrons following the exposure to ionizing radiation.


murder ballad

(music) A subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death.


precedence effect

precedence effect (plural precedence effects)

(acoustics) The psychoacoustical phenomenon in which two versions of the same sound are presented separated by a sufficiently short time delay (below the listener's echo threshold), listeners perceive a single auditory event; its perceived spatial location is dominated by the location of the first-arriving sound (the first wavefront).


Petkau effect

(uncommon) An early counterexample to linear-effect assumptions usually made about radiation exposure.


kobicha

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kobicha.

A dark, orangish or grayish brown color historically used in Japan.


ars antiqua

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ars antīqua (literally “old art”).

ubor

Coordinate term: ars nova

The medieval music of Europe during the High Middle Ages, between approximately 1170 and 1310.


Wigner effect

Named after Eugene Wigner who discovered the effect.

(physics) The displacement of atoms in a solid caused by neutron radiation.


pkhachich

Transliteration of Russian пхачич (pxačič).

transliteration

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

(music) A Circassian percussion instrument. Similar to a Russian treshchotka.


melodism

(music) An approach to musical composition that focuses on melody.


self-composed

en-adj

self-composed (comparative more self-composed, superlative most self-composed)

more self-composed (comparative)
most self-composed (superlative)

a self-composed soundtrack

(music, not comparable) Composed by the person playing it.


lostwave

Just like “EKT”, “The Most Mysterious Song” features elements that could now be called hallmarks of the lostwave genre: an 80s sound, a singer with an undiscernible accent (many associate it with Germany or Eastern Europe) and blurry lyrics that spark debate (is it “like the wind”, or “blind the wind”?)

2024 February 27, “Everyone Knows That: how the internet became obsessed with lostwave”, in Dazed:


landfill indie

These have focused variously on the abysmal quality of its 'landfill indie' variant, its alleged takeover by privately-educated nu-folkers, and its almost total failure to respond to an increasingly harsh rightwards turn in British politics

2013 March 11, Rhian E. Jones, Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 1994:

For example, Robinson writes that the 'Godfathers of landfill Indie', like Razorlight, the Pigeon Detectives and the Wombats, are doing for the new generation of indie-guitar bands what Menswear and Sleeper did for Britpop.

2013 January 28, Professor Andy Bennett, Professor Jon Stratton, Britpop and the English Music Tradition, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 165:

The View were a Libertines-adjacent landfill indie band from Dundee with a few hit singles. Although music buffs will no doubt recoil in horror here, their hit single, “Superstar Tradesman”, really resonated with me.

2023 February 14, Dan Evans, A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:

(derogatory) A genre of British indie rock music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, typically defined by high-energy guitars, realist lyrics and use of regional accents; indie rock music perceived as unambitious, stale and commercial.


slowfox

During the 1920s it developed into two distinct styles, a slow dance in the English style (later called simply the ‘foxtrot’ in English-speaking countries and France and the ‘slowfox’ in German-speaking countries) and the ‘quickstep’ (in German-speaking countries called the ‘foxtrott’).

1980, Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900. Dictionary of music and musicians, Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians:

When the music changed to a slowfox, she threw me a strange glance, then went cheek to cheek, whispering into the guy’s ear.

Suddenly the tempo changes to that of a "Slowfox," as the score says — that is, the current dance rage, the fox-trot — and a light-textured central passage begins to swing more and more intensely, finally breaking out again in the fast opening material that brings the concerto to its invigorating close.

1995, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, 1994-1995, Subscription, Volume 02, Season 114:

I asked him if he would teach me how to dance a slowfox.

2017, Grøndahl, Jens Christian, 1959- author, Often I am happy : a novel:


pointing mark

From pointing (“placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note”) + mark.

com

(music, Anglicanism) In Anglican chant, a mark in the text which corresponds to a barline in the chant, which indicates the syllables on which the chant changes note; typically a vertical line ( | ) or apostrophe ( ' ).


Anglican chant

(music, Anglicanism) A form of chant in which unmetrical text (chiefly psalms) are sung, in which a short, harmonized melody is sung by a choir, with the chant usually corresponding to a single verse.


M-pop

From M (“Malay”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.


Q-pop

From Q (“Qazaq; Kazakh”) + pop, by analogy with K-pop, itself formed by analogy with J-pop.


P-pop

From P (“Pinoy”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.


L-pop

From L (“Lao”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.


unnie line

Calque of Korean 언니 라인 (eonni rain), composed of 언니 (eonni, “unnie; elder sister of a woman”) and 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”), ultimately from English line. By surface analysis, unnie + line.
Refer to 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”) for more information.

(South Korean idol fandom) The elder members of a female K-pop group as a collective.


songwrite

en-verb

songwrite (third-person singular simple present songwrites, present participle songwriting, simple past songwrote, past participle songwritten)

songwrites (present singular third-person)
songwriting (participle present)
songwrote (past)
songwritten (participle past)

“I can’t not songwrite, be singing, performing. I have friends who have been in it and left it on purpose, but I think I’ll never know unless I try.”

2020 November 2, Clementine Daniel, “Students who Songwrite”, in The Urban Legend:

Want to songwrite but I don’t know where to start.


Lowrey organ

/ˈləʊ.ɹiː ˈɔː(ɹ).ɡən/

/ˈloʊ.ɹi ˈɔɹ.ɡən/

Named after American industrialist and entrepreneur Frederick C. Lowrey (1871–1955).

named-after

He told his boss, Maurice Berlin, that he was tired of travelling so much between CMI’s factories, including plants for Lowrey organs and Olds brass as well as Gibson.

2002 April 26, Tony Bacon, 50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul: Half a Century of the Greatest Electric Guitars, Backbeat, →ISBN, page 48:

He continued to study and develop his musical abilities for the piano and the organ and was the proud owner of two Lowery organs.

2008 November 6, National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes, volume 12, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 137:

On ‘The Prettiest Star’, a Lowrey organ, named after the American who designed it, can be clearly heard.

2023 September 5, Jérôme Soligny, David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980, Hachette Livre, →ISBN, page 95:


bunker out

en-verb

bunker out (third-person singular simple present bunkers out, present participle bunkering out, simple past and past participle bunkered out)

bunkers out (present singular third-person)
bunkering out (participle present)
bunkered out (participle past)
bunkered out (past)

(slang, firefighting, intransitive) To suit up in firefighting gear.


nose whistle

A whistle played by blowing through the nose


MLTR

Michael Learns to Rock
w:Michael Learns to Rock

(music) Initialism of Michael Learns to Rock.


ABWH

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
w:Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

(music) Initialism of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.


yellow-orange

en-adj

yellow-orange (comparative more yellow-orange, superlative most yellow-orange)

more yellow-orange (comparative)
most yellow-orange (superlative)

yellow-orange:

web yellow-orange:


disco-style

(music, fashion) Of or pertaining to a style in music or fashion reminiscent of the 1970s disco period.


Deezer

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2007 in Paris by Daniel Marhely and Jonathan Benassaya.


arrest-me-red

arrest-me-red (comparative more arrest-me-red, superlative most arrest-me-red)

more arrest-me-red (comparative)
most arrest-me-red (superlative)

Suggesting that vehicles painted bright red are more likely to attract the attention of law enforcement.

Since buying the town house on the other side of the clinic, he had enjoyed that rarest of New York rarities, an honest-to-goodness private garage, and he had celebrated by buying a brand-new arrest-me-red Ferrari.

1990, Judith Gould, Never Too Rich, New York, N. Y.: Penguin Group, published 1991 November, →ISBN, page 235:

(humorous, chiefly of a motor vehicle) Of a bright red colour.


tänzelcore

A genre of rave music related to keller synth


chromatization

In Composing for Film Adorno argues that the break he identifies between the bourgeois public and genuine Bourgeois art-music 'can be dated back to Tristan' (GS 15: 59-60/CF 57), while in the Mahler book he insists that what he terms 'chromatization as the dequalifying of material' has been 'driving music along one-dimensionally since Tristan' (M 167/MMP 19).

2018, Josh Robinson, Adorno's Poetics of Form, page 68:

(music) A transition toward chromatic atonality.


apple red

en-noun

apple red (countable and uncountable, plural apple reds)

apple red:

bright apple red:

A dark red color with a light tint of purplish-red, like that of a Red Delicious apple.


CAMUS

Acronym of Corps of Army Music, which is the erstwhile name of the corps.

(military, music) Royal Corps of Army Music (a corps of the British Army).


RMSM

Royal Military School of Music
w:Royal Military School of Music

(military, music) Initialism of Royal Military School of Music (British Army musical school).


RCAM

Royal Corps of Army Music
w:Royal Corps of Army Music

(military, music) Initialism of Royal Corps of Army Music (a corps of the British Army).


basic timing

basic timing (countable and uncountable, plural basic timings)

(music) The ability of a musician to maintain a beat, especially when playing with other musicians.


optic yellow

optic yellow (countable and uncountable, plural optic yellows)

optic yellow:

A greenish-yellow color similar to a very bright chartreuse; the standard color for tennis balls in televised matches.


fog out

en-verb

fog out (third-person singular simple present fogs out, present participle fogging out, simple past and past participle fogged out)

fogs out (present singular third-person)
fogging out (participle present)
fogged out (participle past)
fogged out (past)

(transitive, firefighting) To ventilate a space by breaking open a window to let smoke out.


regional Mexican

(music, collective) A collective name encompassing types of Mexican country music, such as mariachi, norteño, sierreño, corridos, etc.


foodcore

W.T.G. EP: A self-avowed "foodcore" release, these eight songs dwell on the ridiculous, dealing with burgers, being too hot, beer quests, bugs, and other important topics.

(music) A humorous genre of music focused on songs about food, particularly parody songs.


theatre organ

(music) A large pipe organ, usually also containing percussion and sound effect elements, of the style found in silent film theatres.


pump organ

(music) A keyboard musical instrument that generates sound by pumping air through a system of free reeds.


(music) A meter of six quarter notes per measure.


sub-bassline

Blend of sub-bass + bassline. By surface analysis, sub- + bassline, or sub-bass + line.

(music) The lowest-pitched instrumental part of a piece of popular music.


darkstep

Another area where I suspect there's some crossover, but I haven't poked around in much, is within death/black metal. Certainly some of what I've heard has the dark techy feel of techstep / darkstep like Technical Itch and whatnot, but it's not something I've had the time to look into properly.

2004 May 10, Phil Evans, “breaks / Drum and base / thrash metal”, in alt.music.drum-n-bass (Usenet):

This record is a standout in the records of Six Finger Satellite as it takes a dance tone. Some darkstep dances fer sure, but think Chrome, Deutsch Amerikan Friendschaft and you might start to get the idea.

2005 November 3, Alessandro Lendaro, quoting Load Records, “Ultimamente si parlava dei legendary pink dots”, in it.arti.musica.rock (Usenet):

on 10.10.10 the new DREAM ITO DUST song "counterfeit" was released online in 6 different mixes plus a video. besides the original, there is a darkstep mix, a breakcore mix [bryin dall], an EBM mix [angztek industries], a cold wave mix [prequel], and a powernoise mix [theologian].

2010 October 16, chth...@chthonicstreams.com, “DREAM INTO DUST : COUNTERFEIT (digital release)”, in rec.music.industrial (Usenet):

A subgenre of dubstep with a fast tempo that incorporates ambient and industrial samples.


hatzotzrah

An instrument similar to a trumpet used by the ancient Israelites.


cantu a tenore

Borrowed from Sardinian cantu a tenòre (literally “singing a tenore”).

bor+

Cantu a tenore (Canto a tenore in Italian) is a type of localized, multipart singing based on chords that is found in areas of the island of Sardinia (Macchiarella 2008).[…]The Sardinian term cantu a tenore describes the local variants practised in some 80 villages of the centre-north of the island;[…]On 25 November 2005 Unesco included the Canto a tenore in the Third ‘Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity’.

2017 October 5, David Horn, John Shepherd, Paolo Prato, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, volume 11, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 741:

If ever music could encapsulate the spirit of Sardinia’s rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes, it is canto a tenore. It is performed by a four-part male choir, the tenores, made up of sa oghe (the soloist and lead voice), su bassu (bass), sa contra (contralto) and sa mesu oghe (countertenor).[…]Canto a tenore is most popular in the centre and north of the island, with the best-known groups coming from the Barbagia region.

2022 July 7, Alexis Averbuck, Duncan Garwood, Gregor Clark, Lonely Planet Sardinia, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 418:

Zappa had been “astonished” by the recordings of the cantu a tenore, the chilling polyphonic singing quartets fashioned traditionally by shepherds. UNESCO enshrined the vocal skills and ancient songs as part of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity.”

2023 May 23, Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy, Melville House, →ISBN, page 25:

A style of a capella vocal music native to Sardinia featuring a quartet of men singing a four-part harmony, and is characteristic for its use of throat singing.


surface noise

(music) A type of background noise that is caused by physical flaws or wear on a phonograph record or in a pickup system.


thermonuclear war

en-noun

thermonuclear war (countable and uncountable, plural thermonuclear wars)

A nuclear war, assuming at least some of the bombs are thermonuclear.


theory of musical equilibration

theory of musical equilibration (uncountable)

(music, psychology) theory that music does not directly convey emotions but rather abstract volitional content that is emotionally perceived


kleisma

From Ancient Greek κλεισμένος (kleisménos, “closed”).

der

(music) A very small interval that is the difference between 6 just minor thirds and a perfect twelfth.


drafting site

(firefighting) A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.

Saugstelle

designated location for a firefighter to draw water out of a natural source


perfect twelfth

en-noun

perfect twelfth (plural perfect twelfths)

(music) The interval between the first and third harmonics of the harmonic series. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it spans nineteen semitones or twelve degrees of the diatonic scale.


microrhythm

(music) Minute, barely-perceptible variation in timing of musical events that contribute to expressivity.


LOG

(music) Lamb of God, an American groove metal band.


SOAD

(music) System of a Down, an Armenian-American alternative metal band.


first shift

Near-synonym: day shift (often synonymous)

A regularly scheduled period of work, being the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; often the first of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; sometimes the first of two, and sometimes with other time values.

A group of workers who work during this time slot.


third shift

Near-synonyms: graveyard shift (often synonymous), night shift (often synonymous)

A regularly scheduled period of work, being the third one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually the third of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), usually at night, and usually from midnight to 8:00 a.m.


Jablochkoff candle

Yablochkov candle
Yablochkov candle#English


type beat

An often overlooked undercurrent of contemporary rap production is around a singular phrase: “Type Beat.” Aspiring producers self-consciously emulate the styles of a singular rapper or producer in the hopes that the artist’s fans like it, and more importantly the artist themselves might enjoy it. Then they upload it to YouTube with that simple tag “type beat.”

2017 February 10, David Turner, “How Making “Type Beat” Rap Productions Became a Legit Career Path”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2024-08-08:

“Type beats” have become more prevalent than ever. In December, Post Malone announced that he hopes to have a “Post Malone-type beat contest” at some point in the future. MJ Nichols landed a placement on 6ix9ine’s Day69 after the rapper’s team searched for “6ix9ine type beat” on YouTube.

2018 May 9, Elias Leight, Jacques Morel Jr., lesleysteele, “How “Type Beats” Have Changed Hip-Hop Production”, in Genius, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

This video introduced him to type beats, instrumentals that attempt to replicate the sound of a scene that are labeled to grab the attention of aspiring rappers trying to catch the wave. Eight years after his initial exposure to the type beats community Cash has become one of rap’s most prolific producers and savviest businessmen,[…]

2018 September 4, Alphonse Pierre, “How Selling and Leasing ‘Type Beats’ Is Making Unknown Producers Rich”, in Pitchfork, archived from the original on 2024-01-24:

(informal, music, neologism) An instrumental made with the intention of emulating the style and sound of a particular musical artist or producer.


coworker music

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(Internet slang, derogatory) Music that is popular, generic, mainstream, formulaic and usually inoffensive or boring; pop music.


Initialism of jet propellant 7: a type of jet fuel for supersonic jet aircraft.


raga rock

(music) Indian-influenced rock music genre.


walkdown

(music, especially bass) A sequence of notes that lowers in pitch stepwise, connecting two or more chords.


hardvapour

(music) An Internet-based microgenre of electronic music, emerged in 2015 as a reimagination of vaporwave with darker themes, faster tempos, and heavier sounds.


straight cover

(music, informal) A cover version (a new performance of an existing song) which has none or very few differences from the original version.


Gyallu

Borrowed from Tibetan རྒྱལ་གླུ། (rgyal glu, literally “Victorious Anthem”).

bor+

China’s state-controlled television and radio in Tibet is surprising visitors to a newly launched website with a music video of the banned Tibetan national anthem. The song, called ‘Gyalu’^([sic]) in Tibetan, is sung by exile Tibetans across the world but has been banned in Tibet for more than 50 years.

2013 November 6, VOA News, “Oops: China State Media Website Plays Banned Tibetan National Anthem”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

The second Tibetan national anthem was composed in 1950 by Trijan Rinpoche. This anthem is known as ‘Gyallu’ and is strictly banned by the Chinese, especially in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The anthem sung that night was Gyallu.

2021 December 1, Kalman Dubov, His Holiness, The Dalai Lama: My time with the Tibetan community, Los Angeles, California, June 2001, page 53:

A Tibetan patriotic song which serves as the de facto national anthem of the Tibetan government-in-exile.


arbajo

A kind of traditional four-stringed lute originating from Nepal.


bandolin

A kind of fifteen-stringed musical instrument related to the bandola and mandolin originating from Ecuador.


note-bash

en-verb

note-bash (third-person singular simple present note-bashes, present participle note-bashing, simple past and past participle note-bashed)

note-bashes (present singular third-person)
note-bashing (participle present)
note-bashed (participle past)
note-bashed (past)

From note + bash, as an allusion to bashing the keys of a piano in an unmusical fashion when first learning a piece.

I hate note-bashing - we've been doing it all afternoon!

(chiefly intransitive, UK, music, informal) To learn the most basic aspects of a piece of music (such as the notes and rhythm) via rote repetition, without regard for tempo, dynamics, style or musicality; typically done when first learning a new piece, as a way to understand it and build muscle memory.


crate-dig

crate-dig (third-person singular simple present crate-digs, present participle crate-digging, simple past and past participle crate-dug)

crate-digs (present singular third-person)
crate-digging (participle present)
crate-dug (participle past)
crate-dug (past)

From crate + dig, first attested in 2005.

Earlier this year, German crate-digging label Analog Africa released a retrospective of Mayorga’s more exploratory electronic works, while a new album of original compositions titled Cumbia Pishcodélica is slated for release in the coming months via Musicoteca Ecuador.

2023 February 10, Richard Villegas, “Three Latin American Music Legends Protecting the Past To Secure the Future”, in Rolling Stone:

There’s definitely a nonzero chance that samples from this record might be found in ’90s releases from DJ Shadow and his fellow crate-digging beat miners.

2023 June 11, Phillip Sherburne, “Croaking Frogs, Buzzing Hornets, Squealing Dolphins: A Guide to Smithsonian Folkways’ Best Science and Nature Recordings”, in Pitchfork:

(transitive, intransitive, music, slang) To shop for vintage, rare, or otherwise obscure recordings, especially by looking through crates containing secondhand merchandise.


Selenian

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


phee-call

Hence, we have found age-dependent differences in phee-call production and a consistent change in the response received across the adult life-span.

2009 February 20, H-C Chen, G Kaplan, L J Rogers, “Contact calls of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): influence of age of caller on antiphonal calling and other vocal responses”, in American Journal of Primatology, volume 71, number 2, →DOI:

The phee-call production rates of each infant's parents during development are shown in Fig. 4G

2015 August 14, D. Y. Takahashi, A. R. Fenley, Y. Teramoto, D. Z. Narayanan, J. I. Borjon, P. Holmes, A. A. Ghazanfar, “The developmental dynamics of marmoset monkey vocal production”, in Science, volume 349, number 6249, →DOI, pages 734–738:

Their analysis showed that marmosets use these phee-calls to address specific individuals within their social groups. Moreover, the monkeys demonstrated an ability to discern when a call was directed at them and responded more accurately to such targeted communication.

2024 August 29, “Marmoset Monkeys Use ‘Names’: A Leap in Primate Communication”, in ScienceBlog, retrieved 2024-08-31:

A specialized vocalization from marmosets that identifies them individually.


flying cymbal

(music) A style of rapid hi-hat drumming associated with reggae music.


brat green

en-noun

brat green (countable and uncountable, plural brat greens)

Named after Brat (2024), a studio album by English singer Charli XCX. The album's cover art features a lime green square with the title in lowercase imposed in Arial font (see image). Compare brat (“characteristic of a confident and assertive woman”).

brat green:

Brat green is taking the world by storm. The trend was set in motion by the singer Charli xcx—whose new album brat is brought to life by a specific shade of slime green—it was always going to be just a matter of time before the mood reached our fingertips.

2024 June 27, Hannah Coates, “brat Green is the Mani Shade of The Moment”, in Vogue:

As her brother stood and cheered and shouted and wept, Hope Walz sat teary-eyed beside him, making a Taylor Swift–like heart with her hands. Her nails, I saw, were painted a very specific shade: brat green.

2024 August 22, Stephanie McNeal, “A Moment for Hope Walz and Her Brat-Green Nails at the DNC”, in Glamour:

There would be no BRAT without brat green. The color heard 'round the world this summer will undoubtedly be the biggest theme of dress at the SWEAT Tour. My biggest piece of advice for nailing this look: Get the shade right.

2024 September 14, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Charli xcx & Troye Sivan's Tour If You Wanna 'SWEAT'”, in Cosmopolitan:


brat green

en-adj

brat green (comparative more brat green, superlative most brat green)

more brat green (comparative)
most brat green (superlative)

Manicurist Eri Narita was behind the brat-green French tips seen at Vogue World, and revealed that her initial inspiration was the greens found in and around a tennis court, from the grass to the balls.

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Having a dark, vibrant lime green colour.


record sleeve

(music) A close-fitting, protective outer covering of a vinyl record.


superduo

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[Article title:] How Paul Simon and Sting Became Rock's New Superduo

2014 February 5, David Browne, “How Paul Simon and Sting Became Rock’s New Superduo”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-05:

(music) A duo in which each member is a superstar in their own right.


shruti

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-
Sanskrit श्रु (śru)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Sanskrit -ति (-ti)
Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti)translit.
English shrutiTransliteration of Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti).

etymon

(music) The smallest interval of pitch that can be detected or produced.