ASMRtist

It's still a business, particularly for ASMRtists who hold to a strict programming schedule, solicit PayPal donations or offer one-on-one Skype sessions for a fee.

2014 December 15, Caitlin Gibson, “A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2017-11-14:

You might say [Bob] Ross was the first ASMRtist, as those who produce ASMR videos like to be called.

2015 April 21, Tanis Fowler, “Relax, you may have ASMR: YouTube videos sparking pleasurable, hypnotic-like sensation result in millions of views”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2017-06-29:

Some ASMRtists, such as Maria, report that they began producing videos after perceiving their own psychological benefits from viewing the videos of other producers […]

2016, Marisa A. del Campo, Thomas J. Kehle, “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and Frisson: Mindfully Induced Sensory Phenomena that Promote Happiness”, in International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, volume 4, number 2, →DOI, pages 99–105:

(informal, neologism) A person who creates ASMR audiovisual material.


Swedish torch

A fire made from a single log partially split and then set upright, with tinder and kindling placed inside the split.


triangulist

Mr. Church plays well enough for even his rebukes to sniggering children to be enjoyable: when it turns out that none of them will take over the vacant triangle in the school orchestra because the last triangulist's hair fell out, it is all faintly sinister.

1964, The Spectator, Volume 213, page 47:

So, those who wish to apply for the position of triangulist, hands up please.

1968, James Saunders, Neighbours: And Other Plays, page 175:

Of course, we know the difference between good and bad triangulists... but one refuses to see in the sporadic triangle tinkling the ultimate purpose of a human being's earthly existence.

1975, George Seltzer, The Professional symphony orchestra in the United States, page 171:

A rich and varied life, a good deal more interesting than that of Hindemith's classically-minded triangulist.

1977, Country Life, Volume 162, page 611:

Backstage after the concert, the maestro rewards the triumphant triangulist with his trademarked embrace.

1982, The Washingtonian, Volume 17, page 200:

In the 1964 Slovak film, The Case of Barnabas Kos (Solan 1964), the lead character is a rather ordinary, somewhat lazy or absent-minded triangulist for an orchestra whom the board promotes to business manager against his will.

2007, Jonathan L. Larson, Whose Critical Thinking? Political Processes and Regimes of Voice in Western Slovakia, 1948-2005, page 343:

Jerome was getting to be one feisty little triangulist.

2013, Chris Lynch, Scratch and the Sniffs, page 36:


triple time

(music) A rhythm or time with three beats per bar: one accented followed by two unaccented.


Perkin's mauve

Discovered in 1856 by William Henry Perkin, a chemistry student, during an attempted synthesis of quinine.


boom-boom

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The boom-boom bass out in the truck bay wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the whoops and the hollers of the ladies.

2015, Kate Meader, Flirting with Fire, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 60:


drumstep

A genre of music combining elements of drum and bass and dubstep.


moon pool

From moon + pool, from the fact that, on some nights, moonlight can be seen reflected by the surface of the sea through the opening, making it resemble a swimming pool.

(nautical, chiefly oil industry) An opening in the base of the hull of a vessel (especially a marine drilling platform), which is used for lowering equipment into the sea below.

moonpool

opening in the base of the hull of a vessel, which is used for lowering equipment into the sea below


full score

(music) a large book showing all the notes of a composition with many simultaneous parts (instruments or voices), with all the parts shown in lines underneath each other in a fixed order. Commonly used by conductors.


parhypate

(music) In ancient musical theory, the lower of the two movable notes between the hypate and mese, the upper being the lichanos.


lichanos

From Ancient Greek λιχανός (likhanós, “the forefinger”).

uder

(music) In ancient musical theory, the upper of the two movable notes between the hypate and mese, the lower being the parhypate.


power noise

(music) A predominantly European noisy genre of electronic music.


oldies goldies

A genre of music consisting of hit records from former eras, generally 30 or more years in the past.


gingerous

en-adj

gingerous (comparative more gingerous, superlative most gingerous)

more gingerous (comparative)
most gingerous (superlative)

Mrs. Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr. Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.

1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:


tear it up

en-verb

tear it up (third-person singular simple present tears it up, present participle tearing it up, simple past tore it up, past participle torn it up)

tears it up (present singular third-person)
tearing it up (participle present)
tore it up (past)
torn it up (participle past)

/ˈtɛəɹ ɪt ˈʌp/

Dad would see them watching me polishing the leather and he'd call me out on stage and the crowd went wild. Little twelve-year-old girl tearing it up.

2009, J. B. Kohl, Eric Beetner, One Too Many Blows to the Head, →ISBN, page 188:

His Double Trouble started tearing it up all over the world. Was just three guys—Stevie, Tommy Shannon on bass, and Chris Layton on drums—but man, they had a big sound.

2012, Buddy Guy, David Ritz, When I Left Home: My Story, →ISBN, page 242:

The Motor City Madman's albums hadn't been selling as well as Cat Scratch Fever a couple of years earlier, but he was still tearing it up Nugent style.

2015, Marky Ramone, Richard Herschlag, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone, →ISBN, page 210:

(music) To perform with great energy and flair.


blicant

en-adj

blicant (comparative more blicant, superlative most blicant)

more blicant (comparative)
most blicant (superlative)

From Middle English blycande, blykkande, blikande, variants of blikiende, blikinde (“shining”), equivalent to blike + -and.


filmi geet

en-noun

filmi geet (countable and uncountable, plural filmi geets)

Borrowed from Hindi फ़िल्मी गीत (filmī gīt).

Unlike most filmi geets this song is a continuous, seamless melody which dispenses with non-traditional musical devices.

2003, Ashraf Aziz, Light of the Universe: Essays on Hindustani Film Music, page 91:

(India, music) A type of music typically used in the soundtracks of films from Mumbai, or a particular song of this type.


atomic power

synonym of nuclear power (normally sense 1)


dulzaina

Borrowed from Spanish dulzaina. Doublet of doucine.

The dulzaina was a double-reed folk instrument, similar to the oboe, which comes from north-central Spain.

2010, Frank Koonce, Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World, page 112:

A Spanish double reed musical instrument in the oboe family.


microtiming

microtiming (usually uncountable, plural microtimings)

The appreciation of microtiming seems to be an exclusive pleasure for the music elite.

2015 August 20, Lorenz Kilchenmann, Olivier Senn, “Microtiming in Swing and Funk affects the body movement behavior of music expert listeners”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 6, →DOI:

(music) Very small differences in the timing (of beats etc) during a performance


glitch hop

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music) A subgenre of electronic dance music that combines elements of hip hop and glitch music


knife-coloured

en-adj

knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)

more knife-coloured (comparative)
most knife-coloured (superlative)

Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]

1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96:

There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.

Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.


coal cracker

Our first coal region poll, and what a great one it was! Coal Crackers sure do love their pizza.

1998 October, “Top Ten Lists: Pizza Parlors”, in CoalRegion.com, retrieved 2016-10-29:

Pawel Gobol is Joey's humble father, a coal cracker who worked in the mines since he was 15.

2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker's Son, Back cover (Google books)

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack . . . said his grandfather was a “coal cracker from Girardville.”

2016 March 20, Mark Gilger Jr., “Revelers celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Irish history at Girardville parade”, in The Republican-Herald, Pennsylvania, US, retrieved 2016-10-29:

(US, slang) A native or established resident of the traditional coal-mining area of northeastern Pennsylvania; a worker in the mines of this region.


radiofluorinate

en-verb

radiofluorinate (third-person singular simple present radiofluorinates, present participle radiofluorinating, simple past and past participle radiofluorinated)

radiofluorinates (present singular third-person)
radiofluorinating (participle present)
radiofluorinated (participle past)
radiofluorinated (past)

(chemistry) To fluorinate using a radiofluorine compound


radiofluorination

(chemistry) fluorination using radiofluorine


dayshield

From day + shield. Compare also Old English dæġsċeald (“dayshield, screen”) of identical formation.

cog

The lamps overhead were beginning to dim; in a few minutes, the dayshields would slide back, revealing the transparent canopy and allowing the remote suns to peer in—dispassionate observers hidden behind the veils of distance.

Caleb continued to hold his gaze until the familiar grating of the dayshields lowering diverted his attention back over to the terrace doors.

The shelter of the day-shield moved across the heavens; the wise Lord had covered over the path of the sun with a sail in such a way that men dwelling on earth could not detect the mast-ropes, […]

2013, Samantha Zacher, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse:

“They used it but they had better weapons. Sunblades, lightspears, dayshields, armour made from sungold. They picked up the knowledge from the Angels of the Sun when they warred against the Old Ones in the Dawn Ages of the World.”

(chiefly science fiction, fantasy) A protection from daylight; a screen


black as Newgate's knocker

en-adj

black as Newgate's knocker (not comparable)

(UK, simile) Completely black in colour.


sun-dry

en-verb

sun-dry (third-person singular simple present sun-dries, present participle sun-drying, simple past and past participle sun-dried)

sun-dries (present singular third-person)
sun-drying (participle present)
sun-dried (participle past)
sun-dried (past)

(transitive) To dry in the sun, especially food.


vonce

Uncertain; possibly from German Schwanz (“tail, slang for penis”) or Yiddish שוואַנץ (shvants, “penis”).

bor

Re-hearing the Curtis Mayfield-avant soul of "Judgment", the proto-acid jazz groove vonce of "Tune Up", the neo-soul slow drag prophecy of "Rosemary Blue" (penned by Neil Sedaka!) 25 years later, I know now that I totally slept on a most seminal pop vocal album.

1999, Jazz Times - Volume 29, Issues 6-10, page 38:

"Man, when I was with Basie," he'd say, "we'd come up on the vonce, and the man would put the ding-ding here."

2009, George Wein, Nate Chinen, Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, →ISBN, page 92:

Blowin' out here would be more like wailing into the heavenly vonce, rather then huffing and puffing changes in a dark cellar.

2009, Skoot Larson, The Dig You Later, Alligator Blues: A Lars Lindstrom Zen-Jazz Mystery, →ISBN:

Feeling his vonce before the soulfully enspirited Baltimore congregation, Gordon counts off the tempo for “Blues Up and Down,” the ritualistic set-closer, “roaring out the blocks hotter than a bowl of three-alarm chili, expatiating inventive verse after verse until the total rings up to an astounding 40,” in the words of Hollis.

2012, The Complete Prestige Recordings of Dexter Gordon (liner notes):

(slang, jazz) A state in which the musician produces great improvisation intuitively.


chillstep

A subgenre of dubstep music that is relatively slow and relaxed.


silver bromide

(inorganic chemistry) the silver salt of hydrobromic acid, AgBr, sometimes used in photographic papers


NORM

Radon in homes is one occurrence of NORM which may give rise to concern and action to control it, by ventilation.

2016, World Nuclear Association, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Initialism of naturally occurring radioactive materials.


energon

/ˈɛnəɹd͡ʒɒn/

At the natural next step the man is not there either, but has been replaced by his constituent electrons and, I suppose, some vitons, energons, and one personalitron.

1938, Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives:

But if almost all energy of a material photon is contained within the copulons between its energons rather than in the energons themselves, this means that it loses its structure: the energons are barely still anything more than hollow sacks […]

2007, Niels Vandamme, Tempest - the Transition, page 153:

(science fiction) A proposed form of energetic particle.


Planck star

The entire matter of the sun condensed into the space of an atom: a Planck star should be constituted by this extreme state of matter.

2015, Carlo Rovelli, translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Penguin, published 2016, page 44:

(astrophysics) A hypothetical astronomical object whose energy is around the Planck density (5.155 × 10⁹⁶ kg/m³).


mike sock

(sound engineering) A cover placed over a microphone to reduce external sounds


clamoursome

en-adj

clamoursome (comparative more clamoursome, superlative most clamoursome)

more clamoursome (comparative)
most clamoursome (superlative)

The fans were far too busy screaming and yawling their clamoursome recognition of the hit song.

Grace, who had never had children, said, “Well,you know Jillian's voice is rather clamoursome, love.”

2012, Kate Collins, Nightshade on Elm Street:

If this coming one was any standard, Valier was going to be a clamorsome town.

2013, Ivan Doig, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, page 253:

Characterised or marked by clamouring; clamorous


scance

In silk an' sattin ilk ane scances,
An gauze beside,
They've loupit o'er a' sort o' fences
Wi perfect pride.

1813, Ebenezer Picken, Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, Etc, page 128:

And look at the scance that comes frae his bonny een.

1897, George Stirling's Heritage: A Story of Chequered Love, page 34:

If you are still hovering on the outskirts of our charmed brotherhood, I wish I could describe for you the smoothness—the mildness—the benevolent after-glow on your skin—the incomparable luxury of a scance with Mennen's.

1910, Dominion Medical Monthly and Ontario Medical Journal:


rhythm pole

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

(music) A percussion instrument, consisting of small bells attached to a pole, used exclusively by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band


electro swing

A music genre combining vintage or modern swing and jazz influences with house music and hip-hop.


spit fire

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His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.

2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:

Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.

2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:

Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.

2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:


radiumizer

(historical) A device for treating water with radium, once believed to have health benefits.


radiumize

en-verb

radiumize (third-person singular simple present radiumizes, present participle radiumizing, simple past and past participle radiumized)

radiumizes (present singular third-person)
radiumizing (participle present)
radiumized (participle past)
radiumized (past)

(transitive, rare) To treat with radium.


wolf tone

This cello has a terrible wolf tone on the D string.

(music) An unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.


Coalgate

A small town in Selwyn District, Canterbury, New Zealand, where lignite was mined.

A small city, the county seat of Coal County, Oklahoma, United States.

A former unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.


olivescent

Becoming olive; approaching an olive colour.


YORP effect

From the first letters of the surnames Yarkovsky, O'Keefe, Radzievskii and Paddack + effect. Coined in 2000 by American geophysicist David Perry Rubincam.

(astrophysics) The effect of solar radiation on an asymmetric asteroid or other small body whereby its rate of rotation increases, potentially leading to the object's eventual disintegration.


mukbang

en-noun

mukbang (countable and uncountable, plural mukbangs)

Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).

bor

After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.

2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).

2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, →ISBN, page 57:

In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]

2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang

2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram:

(social media) An online video broadcast in which a person eats while interacting with their audience.


tropical house

Coined by Australian producer Thomas Jack.

A subgenre of deep house music with elements of dancehall and Balearic house.


radiothermoluminescence

en-noun

radiothermoluminescence (countable and uncountable, plural radiothermoluminescences)

For low-density polyethylene (LDPE), two radiothermoluminescence scintillations peaked at –120 and –40°C.

2002, Kenneth E. Bower, Yuri A. Barbanel, Yuri G. Shreter, Polymers, Phosphors, and Voltaics for Radioisotope Microbatteries, page 176:

(physics) Thermoluminescence; the release of previously absorbed radiation upon being heated.


zabumba

(music) A Brazilian bass drum that performers wear and is tapped with both hands.


E-sharp

(music) A tone one semitone higher than an E, denoted E♯.

eis

a tone one semitone higher than an E, denoted E♯


G-flat

(music) A tone one semitone lower than a G, denoted G♭.

ges

a tone one semitone lower than a G, denoted G♭


room tone

room tone (countable and uncountable, plural room tones)

(film, sound engineering) The ambient sounds in a room or on a set.


D-sharp

(music) A tone one semitone higher than a D, denoted D♯.

dis

a tone one semitone higher than a D, denoted D♯


D-flat

(music) A tone one semitone lower than a D, denoted D♭.

des

a tone one semitone lower than a D, denoted D♭


G-sharp

(music) A tone one semitone higher than a G, denoted G♯.

gis

a tone one semitone higher than a G, denoted G♯


B-sharp

(music) A tone one semitone higher than B, denoted B♯.

his

a tone one semitone higher than a B, denoted B♯


F-sharp

(music) A tone one semitone higher than an F, denoted F♯.

fis

a tone one semitone higher than an F, denoted F♯


F-flat

(music) A tone one semitone lower than an F, denoted F♭.

fes

a tone one semitone lower than an F, denoted F♭


C-flat

(music) A tone one semitone lower than a C, denoted C♭.

ces

a tone one semitone lower than a C, denoted C♭


nucleogenesis

(physics, astronomy) The formation of nuclei; nucleosynthesis.


spontaneous fission

(nuclear physics) A form of radioactive decay: nuclear fission that occurs spontaneously, instead of being induced by an external stimulus.


trans-copernicium

The IUPAC/IUPAP JWP performed a critical review of the various claims to discovery of the trans-copernicium elements Z = 113, 114, 115, 116, and 118. Evidence in the cases of elements Z = 113, 115, and 118 have not met the criteria for discovery.

2011 June, Robert C. Barber, Paul J. Karol, Hiromichi Nakahara, Emanuele Vardaci, Erich W. Vogt, “Discovery of the elements with atomic numbers greater than or equal to 113”, in Pure and Applied Chemistry, volume 83, number 7:

The α–α correlation technique will fail here for element identification as already became clear with the new trans-copernicium elements.

2016, Stefan Schramm, Mirko Schäfer, New Horizons in Fundamental Physics, →ISBN, page 86:

(chemistry) Lying beyond copernicium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 112.


enharmony

enharmony (countable and uncountable, plural enharmonies)

(music) The property of being enharmonic.

(music) The equivalence between two notes whose names are different.


onbeia

Four onbeia blowers walked in front, and, in turns, sounded the great elephant's tusk, while, headed by the dreaded sable standard and moving very slowly, came the Khalifa, stern, stately, statuesque, with drawn sword. Behind, followed the gaudily-attired mulazimin, or body-servants, riding, while his black guards, veritable giants in stature, formed a compact square around him.

1897, William Le Queux, The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return, page 8:


VST

Twitch uses Reason; synthesizer software Absynth and Reactor; Pluggo, to add special sound effects through VST plug-ins; Peak, an audio editor that lets you cut audio to the right length; and the sequencer software Ableton Live.

2005 March 10, Natalie Hanman, “Mix and match”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-07-21:

Virtual Studio Technology
w:Virtual Studio Technology

(music) Initialism of Virtual Studio Technology.


apostrophus

You find not the apostrophus, and so miss the accent. Let me supervise the canzonet.

1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:

In the early Graduals Benevento VI. 38 and 40, the apostrophus is common in syllabic passages in sequences, tropes and prosulae.

2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History, page 66:

In transcriptions from Ben 34, I have not distinguished the apostrophus from regular notes.

2010, Rebecca Maloy, Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission, page iv:

The early Beneventan apostrophus was optional, instructive and exemplary, suggesting low, quick, unaccented syllables at the start of a phrase (sometimes implying a preceding breath) in the Gregorian Mass Propers and short or quick syllables in tropes, prosulae and sequences.

2017, John Boe, Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300, page 66:

(music, historical) An open notehead ( ~ ) or an apostrophe ( ' ) used as a neume to mark a low, unaccented syllable at the beginning of a phrase or a short quick syllable


kecak

The kecak is performed as a spectacle rather than a ceremony and new versions are commissioned for festivals and TV.

2000, Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, World Music: The Rough Guide, page 125:

(anthropology, music) A type of ceremonial chant in Bali, based on the Ramayana story, where men sit in a circle and imitate the sounds of monkeys.


palm court orchestra

palm court orchestra (plural palm court orchestras)

A small orchestra playing light classical music.


chromelodeon

(music) A Partchian pump organ designed to conform to Partch's tonality system.


diamond marimba

diamond marimba (plural diamond marimbas)

(music) A Partchian marimba with keys arranged in a physical manifestation of the 11-limit tonality diamond.


zymo-xyl

(music) A Partchian xylophone augmented with everyday articles such as bottles and hubcaps.


sunlight is the best disinfectant

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant," said Puccio in explaining his decision to open the proceeding to reporters.

1989 January 5, Phil Berger, “Lawyers Slug It Out In Tyson-Cayton Case”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-01-08:

The basic premise of a scoop is that you're bringing important facts to public attention. Your philosophical touchstone is Justice Louis Brandeis' bromide that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

1999 March 15, Michael Kinsley, “The Trouble with Scoops”, in Time, retrieved 2016-01-08:

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant," he said. "We must change our practices and our mindset, moving from a culture of secrecy to one of complete openness and accountability."

2009 June 21, Catherine Bennett, “No one gains from blowing the cover of this secret policeman”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2016-01-08:

(usually public policy or management) Transparency about the workings of an organization prevents corruption.

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It


light minute

Rick: We got some business to attend to a few light minutes south of here.

2015, "Mortynight Run", season 2, episode 2 of Rick and Morty [Rick and Morty are travelling in a spaceship]

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one minute.


bluesification

bluesification (usually uncountable, plural bluesifications)

The process or result of bluesifying the music.


bluesify

en-verb

bluesify (third-person singular simple present bluesifies, present participle bluesifying, simple past and past participle bluesified)

bluesifies (present singular third-person)
bluesifying (participle present)
bluesified (participle past)
bluesified (past)

2000, Tracy Johnson, ncounters with Bob Dylan: If You See Him, Say Hello
Most harpists back then played cross harp, sucking in on the notes to bend and bluesify them.

(transitive, music) To adapt to sound like blues.


polarizance

en-noun

polarizance (countable and uncountable, plural polarizances)

Am A 13, 1106 (1996)] any depolarizing Mueller matrix can be transformed into a reduced form which accumulates the depolarization and polarizance properties into a set of seven parameters.

2015, Jose J. Gil, Ignacio San Jose, “Reduced form of a Mueller matrix”, in arXiv:

(physics) The ability to produce polarized light


qinpu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琴譜／琴谱 (qínpǔ).

In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous.

1993, Experimental Musical Instruments, volume 9, page 17:

A qin handbook is called qinpu in Chinese, which means literally qin tablature. Beginning from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many qinpu were printed after prince Zhu Chuan edited and printed the first qinpu, Shenqi Mipu (The Wonderful Esoteric Tablature).

1994, Yip Mingmei, “Review (L'art du qin by Georges Goormaghtigh)”, in Journal of the Society for Asian Music, volume 25, University of Texas Press, page 243:

As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.

1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144:

Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.


doo-wopper

A street-corner group of doo-woppers caught his hear.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 166:


Daydreamer

After Adele's song “Daydreamer” (2008). See more at daydream and daydreamer.

Adele’s fans – many of whom call themselves ‘Daydreamers’ – found they had to wait for the dream of a third album to come true. Not only that, as they waited they were subjected to several delays and disappointments.

[2015, Chas Newkey-Burden, Adele: The Biography, updated edition, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:

This story was told by fans around the world, especially Daydreamers, the fandom of Adele.

2021 November 16, Pat Phoompuang, “Adele's New Album Release: 30”, in The Brewster Browser, volume 44, number 2, Wolfeboro, NH: Brewster Academy, page 8, column 3:

Eagle-eyed Daydreamers were quick to notice the similarities between “Easy On Me” and her longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 “Hello,” which were both shot in black and white (though the latter is sepia-toned) and feature the same house, Sony Music confirmed.

2022 January 13, Danielle Pascual, “Adele Easter Eggs: Fan-Spotted References to Past Music Videos In Her ’30’ Era”, in Billboard, archived from the original on 2022-01-13:

Her shows, called “A Weekend with Adele,” scheduled to run weekends through April, were expected to be the most lucrative residency in Las Vegas history. They’ve been indefinitely postponed, the singer announced in a Twitter video Thursday. The cancellation has fueled skepticism and disappointment among Adele’s Daydreamers, her fandom.

2022 January 25, Linda Hasco, “Adele’s postponed Las Vegas residency: She’s apologized, but do we really know what’s behind it?”, in PennLive, archived from the original on 2022-01-26:

(music) A fan of British singer-songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 1988), simply known as Adele.


Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival (plural Lantern Festivals)

From the carrying and displaying of lanterns during such festivals.

A festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese calendar when the first full moon of the year is seen (in February or early March).


isoperiodic

The majority of the surviving English motets of the fourteenth century are isoperiodic.

2000, Ross W. Duffin, A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music, →ISBN, page 60:

(music) In which the phrases of two or more voices are the same length.


hot cell

A shielded chamber built to store highly radioactive substances.


microformal

For example, the note values and tonality of a phrase cannot be chosen independently of those of the other phrases; and similar restirctions apply also for many other microformal characteristics.

1984, Mario Baroni, Laura Callegari Hill, Musical grammars and computer analysis, page 209:

However, the results of the research do implicitly show how musical form reflects and implies some of these mental devices. In the first two repertories examined, the rules have been divided into two categories: macroformal and microformal rules.

1989, Stephen McAdams, Irène Deliège, Music and the Cognitive Sciences, →ISBN:

General similarities and symmetries, broad tonal relationships, compass of parts, and so forth belong to the macroformal plane, while internal phrase structure, pitch contour, rhythmic peculiarities, and the like belong to the microformal plane (Baroni and Callegari 1989).

1993, Goffredo Haus, Music Processing, page 7:

Each section harbours a ternary microformal pattern based upon its own thematic content.

2009, Paul-André Bempéchat, Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters, →ISBN, page 242:

(music) Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.


top forty

top forty (countable and uncountable, plural top forties)


semigrand

An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.

1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 64:

Both companies make the upright, grand, semigrand, and baby-grand pianos, and in such styles as colonial, empire, antique, etc.

1910, The Oriental Economic Review, volume 1, page 394:

(music) Of a piano: having a size intermediate between grand and baby grand.


zurla

It cannot be doubted that for hundreds of years zurla and tapan ensembles have played professionally for many ethnic groups in southern Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, the Macedonian province of Greece, the Pirin region of Bulgaria (southwest), and some parts of Balkan Thrace.

2012, Carol Silverman, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora:


dvojnice

Tone pitch depends on the dimensions of the dvojnice tubes and upon the position of the first hole in relation to the lower opening of the pipe.

2014, Jasmina Talam, Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, page 172:


gajda

Many of them are one-time pupils of Pece Atanasovski, until his recent untimely death the finest gajda player in the country, and leader of the very fine Radio Skopje (now Macedonian TV-Ratio) ensemble, the Ansambl na Narodni Instrumenti, with which he recorded frequently.

1999, Simon Broughton, World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, page 203:


alipta

Alipta is said to be of two types, ragalipta and rupalipta. The former is a combination of nada with svara and raga, while the latter is a combination of nada with raga and svara.

1992, Mandayam Bharati Vedavalli, Mysore as a Seat of Music, page 137:

(music) One of the four margas (traditional techniques for playing percussive intruments), which combines strokes of the vamaka and urdhavaka drums.


Eminem

Of her husband, now a successful attorney, she says: "He's no Eminem, but he's not a buck-toothed, tractor-driving white boy either. He's a cool, worldly dude.

2002 February, Hyun Kim, “Head of the Class”, in Vibe, volume 10, number 2:

In an early song that did not end up on his album, I Don't Know, he responded to critics who compared him to the white rapper Eminem. I'm no Eminem / but I'm not wack either / The only reason you compare me to him / Is because I'm not black either.

2007, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, →ISBN, page 56:

This is the entry point for all the Eminems, and for all the Eminems to come

2011, Morris Berman, Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline, →ISBN:

Rocky was no Eminem.

2015, Narinder Dhami, Bhangra Babes, →ISBN:

All I know is: I'm no Eminem, and I want nothing to do with a cypher, even though all of these guys (and one chick) are looking at me expectantly like, Why wouldn't dude want to join in?

2016, Allison Glock-Cooper, T. Cooper, Changers, Book Two: Oryon, →ISBN:

(colloquial) A talented rapper, on the same level as the rapper Eminem.


darkside

darkside (countable and uncountable, plural darksides)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

From dark + side. Sense 2.1 (“side that is evil”) was popularized by the film Star Wars (1977; later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) where the term was used to describe the aspect of a metaphysical power called the Force which could be used to act aggressively and perpetrate evil.

The label closely observed the shifts in techno during the 90s, being a staple source of ‘darkside’ hardcore in 1992.

1994, “Reinforced Records”, in Colin Larkin, editor, The Guinness Who’s Who of Rap, Dance & Techno, Enfield, Middlesex [London]: Guinness Publishing, →ISBN, page 304, column 1:

1993 was the year that hardcore began to get more varied with different styles being made. One style known as "darkness" or "darkside" used less pianos and more darker sounding chords.

2003 May 6, Alex Nikolaenko Jr., “What is a Jungle?”, in fido7.ru.music.drum-bass (Usenet):

After some atonal washes and twitchy breakbeats, the track lurched to a sudden halt and – in a moment that still takes my breath away when I listen to it now – a brief snatch of the spidery, abstract electronics instantly recognisable from the Japan record leapt into the chasm, before being immediately consumed by viscous bass ooze and the synthetic screeches that were the sonic signatures of darkside Jungle.

2007 December, Mark Fisher, “Epiphanies”, in The Wire, number 286, London: The Wire Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-17, page 106, columns 1–2:

(uncountable, music) A style of electronic music, being a form of hardcore characterized by discordant sounds.


Orion drive

en:Orion drive
en:Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

From Orion + drive, since it originated from Project Orion, a U.S. government study from the 1950s.

(astronautics, science fiction) A theoretical means to propel spacecraft through space, by detonating nuclear bombs behind the spaceship and riding the nuclear explosions that push against the rear mounted pusher plate.


nuclear plasma

(physics) A plasma undergoing nuclear fusion


fire triangle

The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).


ear rape

Compound of ear + rape, metaphorically referring to an unwanted assault on the listener's ears.

An act of deliberately increasing the volume of the audio of music, often for humorous effect.


burninate

en-verb

burninate (third-person singular simple present burninates, present participle burninating, simple past and past participle burninated)

burninates (present singular third-person)
burninating (participle present)
burninated (participle past)
burninated (past)

Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.

Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!

2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.

2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:

These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.

2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:

(slang, humorous) To destroy by fire; to burn.


combination tone

en-noun

combination tone (plural combination tones)

(music) The psychoacoustic phenomenon of an additional tone or tones being perceived when two real tones are sounded at the same time.


wolf-grey

His coat was the true wolf-grey, and to all appearances he was a true wolf himself.

1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter 6, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 171:

wolf-grey:

A grey colour, as that of the fur of a wolf.


hulusi

The hulusi, also known as a poleweng, baihongliao or bilangdao, is a two or three pipe free reed from southern China played by the Dai, A'chang, De'ang and Wa people.

2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play the World: The 101 World Instrument Primer, page 68:

A wind instrument from China and the Shan State.


rain fire and brimstone

en-verb

rain fire and brimstone (third-person singular simple present rains fire and brimstone, present participle raining fire and brimstone, simple past and past participle rained fire and brimstone)

rains fire and brimstone (present singular third-person)
raining fire and brimstone (participle present)
rained fire and brimstone (participle past)
rained fire and brimstone (past)

A reference to the The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Psalms 11:6: “Upon the wicked hee [God] shall raine snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.”

That day I raised my hand and swore obedience and loyalty to God, country and the Marine Corps, not necessarily in that order, and promised to rain fire and brimstone upon all enemies happened to be only two weeks after the buildup of troops began in Vietnam with the landing of the Ninth Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Da Nang on 9 March 1965.

2003, Ray Hildreth, Charles W. Sasser, chapter 1, in Hill 488, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 20–21:

"After punching him, and making a report, how do I go back and with a ridiculous question like that?" / "Unless you think I am lying you have to. You have no choice." / "What if I don't?" / "I will rain fire and brimstone on you."

2012 March 26, William deGraftColeman, chapter 19, in The Gods Declare, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 206:

Even before the global financial crisis flared up, various critics and interested parties rained fire and brimstone upon globalization on several counts. Globalization hampered efforts to shield the environment and lift the living standards of workers. In developed countries cheap foreign imports seemingly turned domestic workers out of doors.

2013, Larry Allen, “Overview”, in The Global Economic Crisis: A Chronology, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, pages 9–10:

Cyrus Barron straightened to his full height and looked for all the world like some old revival preacher raining fire and brimstone on his congregation.

2015, Silver James, chapter 17, in Cowgirls Don’t Cry (Harlequin Desire), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 178:

Yet, if [Chris] Colabello is clean and this really was an accident, then he’d better fight the results with all his might. He’d better rain fire and brimstone down on supplement companies.

2016 April 23, Dirk Hayhurst, “Colabello’s entire fairy tale now under suspicion”, in The Sports Network, archived from the original on 2016-07-25:

(transitive, idiomatic) To send horror or destruction.


phasey

en-adj

phasey (comparative more phasey, superlative most phasey)

more phasey (comparative)
most phasey (superlative)

Tone all phasey, woozy, wicky-wacky.

2009 October 11, Ben Ratliff, “Doom Metal, Melodic Jazz, Boiled-Down Funk”, in New York Times:


kargyraa

Mastery of throat-singing techniques like sygyt and kargyraa, the first an overtone-saturated whistling style, the second a deep, droning growl, are no longer the exclusive province of Mongolian tribesmen.

2015 October 15, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, “What’s That Sound? It’s Tough to Tell”, in New York Times:

(music) A deep form of Tuvan overtone singing


scetavajasse

/ˌʃeɪtəvaɪˈɑːseɪ/

Borrowed from Neapolitan scetavajasse (literally “maid-waker”), from sceta (“wake up”, imperative of scetà) + vajasse (“maids, female servants”, plural of vajassa).

affix

imperative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nap">scetà</i>

plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nap">vajassa</i>

(music) A Neapolitan percussion instrument composed of two wooden sticks, a serrated one and a smooth one, played by rubbing the former on the latter.


overtone singing

fundamental frequency
fundamental frequency

(music) A type of singing in which the individual singer manipulates the resonances of the voice to produce notes independent of the fundamental frequency


contrapunctus

The ambitus of the metrical weight profile increases towards the middle of the contrapunctus; minimal local meter length is 2.

2018, Guerino Mazzola, The Topos of Music II: Performance: Theory, Software, and Case Studies:


art song

Although effective rendition of an art song requires great skill on the part of the singer, virtuosity for its own sake is generally eschewed. Hence one seldom finds florid passages or excessive ornamentation. This is especially true of the French […]

1980, Barbara Meister, An introduction to the art song, Crescendo:

"Art song" is our answer to the German Lied or the French mélodie, which implies a through-written recital song as distinct from a chanson. A definition is required, and especially so for American song, because when all is said and done […]

1986, Alan Blyth, Song on Record:, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 246:

While their worth is unquestionable, these arias do not equate in form or intention with the classically defined art song. Yet, art song does exist in Italy in a large body of works known as liriche da camera — compositions for solo voice and piano […]

1989, Ruth C. Lakeway, Robert Charles White, Italian Art Song:

(music) A vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment.


chap-hop

Never wear plimsolls if not doing sport
Unless you're a chap-hop superstar sort

2010, Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer (lyrics and music), “Hail the Chap”, in I Say!, performed by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer:

Any style of music can become steampunk if the story is right. Thus the rise of a seemingly incongruous pairing: steampunk rap, or chap-hop.

2013, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller, Steaming into a Victorian Future, page 90:

[…] the compliment has now been returned, with the rise of a style known as chap-hop, in which people in tweeds such as Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer freestyle over a banjulele accompaniment barbed songs of political comment such as 'They Don't Allow Rappers in the Bullingdon' (2012).

2016, Max Décharné, Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang:

(music) A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English stereotypes.


lolicore

From loli + -core.
Last.fm claims it was coined by Loli Ripe in 2006 and their RYM artist profile says they were an anonymous 4chan poster - which doesn't seem unrealistic as the place of its origin, at least as far as the more western scene (which seems to be where the term "lolicore" came from).

(music) A subgenre of breakcore that is characterised by heavily distorted and pitch-shifted samples, typically taken from anime, and often inspired by Japanese otaku culture.


bituminosulfonate

ammonium bituminosulfonate
ammonium bituminosulfonate

(organic chemistry, petrochemistry) An anion found in ammonium bituminosulfonate (ichthammol), obtained by dry distillation of oil shale and subsequent sulfonation.


2 Tone

Coined by Jerry Dammers, keyboard player for The Specials, as an allusion to multiraciality.

A British ska revival genre of the late 1970s, fusing traditional ska music with punk rock elements.


C&W

country and western
country and western#English

(music) Initialism of country and western.


ISRC

International Standard Recording Code
w:International Standard Recording Code

(music industry) Initialism of International Standard Recording Code: a code for uniquely identifying sound recordings and music videos.


alfabetto

This book contains a compilation of songs for the Guitar with Alfabetto notation.

the standard method of notating strummed guitar chords in Italy during the 17th and early 18th centuries


one-woman band

(music) A woman who plays multiple instruments at once.


Radithor

(historical) A quack medicine consisting of distilled water and radium, claimed to cure impotence and other conditions, but actually causing radiation poisoning.


Radium Girl

(US, historical) A female factory worker who contracted radiation poisoning from luminous paint (containing radium) used in watch dials in the early 20th century.


Traylor

(slang) The celebrity couple of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.


dark cabaret

A music genre with elements of goth and punk, drawing on the decadent, risqué aesthetics of German Weimar-era cabaret shows.


nuclear meltdown

en-noun

nuclear meltdown (plural nuclear meltdowns)

A severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating


Eurometal

2004, November 8, Molley Case, interviewed in "Final Say", CMJ Alert, issue 889, page 23.
My significant others don't understand why I want to make love while listening to the masters of the Eurometal scene sing about dragons and evil games.


Euro-metal

(music) Relatively melodic European metal music, in particular used of European power metal.


bee purple

bee purple (countable and uncountable, plural bee purples)

Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.

2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?:

A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the visual spectrum of the bee, analogous to the way purple for humans is a mixture of red and violet, the two extremes of the human visual spectrum).


doom/death

2007, Keith Kahn-Harris, Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, Berg, →ISBN, page 133.
The Gathering from the Netherlands also previously a doom/death metal band, now play a form of psychedelic/gothic rock.

2010, Jeff Wagner, Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal, Bazillion Points, →ISBN, page 245.
The only other notable band incorporating violin into metal at taht time was U.K. avant-garde doom/death act My Dying Bride.

2015, "Myraeth", in Brian Giffin (comp.), Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal, Lulu (3rd revised ed.), →ISBN, page 2194.
Myraeth is a doom/death band from the Blue Mountains, formed by Samantha Kempster from Lycanthia, Ryan Casey and Max Vandyke in 2009.

(music) A hybrid genre derived from doom metal and death metal.


Vo

(music) Abbreviation of vocals (of a rock band).


positive organ

(music) A small pipe organ designed for portability, common in sacred and secular music between the 10th and 18th centuries.


extratone

Borrowed from German extrahieren (“to extract”) + Tone (“notes”).

(music) A variation of speedcore with a bpm exceeding 1000.


clavicymbalum

(music) An early keyboard instrument and ancestor of the harpsichord.


Gaylor

There are two major fan theories at play in the lead-up to Midnights. The first we're going to call the Karma theory. The second is the Gaylor theory. One of them has been nearly confirmed, and the other nearly dashed.

2022 October 19, Constance Grady, “Let's go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Anti-Gaylor fans, also known by the derisive term Hetlors, are a subculture of Swift followers who believe the harmless Gaylor fan theory is disrespectful to the pop star. The theory, which originated on the blogging site Tumblr in the mid-2010s, became a renewed topic of interest online when Swift abruptly announced her tenth studio album Midnights in 2022 — and began releasing coded messages about the contents and meanings behind her new songs.

2023 April 12, CT Jones, “Why Some Taylor Swift Stans Are Ganging Up On 'Gaylors': Report”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:

(fandom slang) A fan theory that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is secretly gay.


clavicytherium

clavicytherium (plural clavicytheriums or clavicytheria)

clavicytheriums (plural)
clavicytheria (plural)

From Late Latin clavicytherium, from Medieval Latin clāvis (“key”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“crook, hook, peg”)) + cithara (“cithara, guitar, lute, lyre”) + -ium (“suffix forming nouns”).

der

[T]he harpſichord is an improvement of the Clavicitherium, an inſtrument known in England in Gower's time by the name of the Citole, from Cistella, a little cheſt.

1776, John Hawkins, “Preliminary Discourse”, in A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, … In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Payne and Son, at the Mews-Gate, →OCLC, page xiv:

When we consider the state of imperfection in which all keyed instruments, the organ excepted, remained till within these few years past, we can scarcely bring ourselves to believe tha instruments analogous to them were in use as far back as 1530. Yet such was the case: four instruments of this kind were then employed, the compass of which was three octaves and a half. They were—1st, the Clavicitherium, which was mounted with catgut-strings, and sounded by means of a jack put in motion by the touch: […]

1827 January, Fetis [i.e., François-Joseph Fétis], “Improvement in the Construction of Pianos. From the Revue Musicale”, in The Harmonicon, a Journal of Music, volume V, London: Printed for the proprietors, published by Samuel Leigh, No. 18, Strand, →OCLC, page 158, column 1:

The first stringed instrument to which the key-board was applied, was probably the clavicytherium, or keyed-cithara. In its early stage, it was a small oblong box, with the strings arranged in the form of a half-triangle. The strings, which were of catgut, were sounded by means of quill-plectra, attached in a rude way to the ends of the keys.

1860, Edward F[rancis] Rimbault, “The First Instruments of the Pianoforte Class”, in The Pianoforte, Its Origin, Progress, and Construction; with Some Account of Instruments of the Same Class which Preceded It; viz. the Clavichord, the Virginal, the Spinet, the Harpsichord, etc. To which is Added a Selection of Interesting Specimens of Music Composed for Keyed-stringed Instruments. …, London: Robert Cocks and Co. New Burlington Street, Regent Street, W. music publishers to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and His Imperial Majesty Napoleon III, →OCLC, page 28:

[W]e find indications of a keyed instrument after the year 1300, called the Clavicytherium, or keyed cithara. The invention of keys permitted the strings to be covered over, and therefore the strings of the clavicytherium were enclosed in a box, instead of being stretched on a box. […] The clavicytherium was usually a very small instrument,—an oblong box, three or four feet in length, that could be lifted by a girl of fourteen. The clavichord and manichord, which we read of in [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart's letters, were only improved and better-made clavicytheria.

1867 July, “The Piano in the United States”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XX, number CXVII, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 124 Tremont Street, →OCLC, page 86, column 1:

The writer referred to [Edward Francis Rimbault] traces the instrument from the ancient lyre, through various mechanical phases, the harp, psaltery, dulcimer, etc. to the clavicitherium—a name compounded from the Latin clavis, a key, and cithera, the name of an ancient instrument of music, which consisted of strings drawn over a sounding wooden surface or bottom, and not unlike the modern guitar. The clavicytherium was an oblong box, containing a number of strings arranged in a triangular form, and which were struck by a plectrum—a little mallet, commonly made of ivory, with which the ancients beat the strings of the lyre.

1872, Horace Greeley et al., “Piano-fortes”, in The Great Industries of the United States: Being an Historical Summary of the Origin, Growth, and Perfection of the Chief Industrial Arts of This Country, Hartford, Conn.: J. B. Burr & Hyde; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Oh.: J. B. Burr, Hyde & Co., →OCLC, page 275:

Clavicytheria, or upright harpsichords, were also made in Italy. Although they probably were built almost everywhere, the evidence of the extant instruments indicates that they were more common here than elsewhere. Playing a clavicytherium is a sensual experience: the soundboard is directly in front and the sound is projected right at the player.

1978, Edward L[eon] Kottick, “A Short History of the Harpsichord”, in The Harpsichord Owner’s Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 34, column 3:

However, [Albert] Delin's originality is manifested from the start through his building of clavicytheriums, in which the mechanism is an innovation; it appears that he was trying to distinguish himself from the other makers of the eighteenth century in the Low Countries.

2007, Frederick Hammond, “Delin, Albert (1712–1771)”, in Igor Kipnis, editor, The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments; 2), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 147, column 1:

(music) A harpsichord in which the soundboard and strings are mounted vertically facing the player.


Bieber fever

(informal) Enthusiasm for the Canadian singer Justin Bieber.


Bourdon

(music) A flute stop on an organ of 8', 16' or 32', generally characterized by a low, dark tone.


blue fire

en-noun

blue fire (usually uncountable, plural blue fires)

(UK, slang, dated) Sensational romanticism.


Gibby

The reviews I read to day were just product brochures. I'd like to know how that $4,000 Gibby is different and better than a $1,200 Gibby and a $400 Epi. Teach me something!

2006 October 22, Mark Nahra, “Re: Most magazine guitar reviews suck”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):


oil tanker

(nautical) A ship that transports oil (petroleum), such as crude oil or bunker oil.


pantonality

(music) Twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key).

(music) Non-functional tonality or pandiatonicism.


doskpop

Said to be from Swedish disco och synth-kombinerad pop (disco and synth combined pop). http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=5058

look for the doskpop collection, it's a chiptune doskpop collection with tracks by Lizardking (naturally) and others. Look on aminet, it's there somewhere, probably named "doskpop" something or other.. (try looking in /pub/aminet/mods/INDEX).

1995, Andrew Fort, “Chiptunes...”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

No, I still like doskpop lots, don't get me wrong. :) I'm just saying that I think perhaps there's too many synth-pop wannabees who are getting highly rated.

1996, S M Carless, “DemoNews 124”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

The studio-oriented music would typically sound like jazz funk or techno, a unique style of the demoscene that became known as 'doskpop'. Swedish artist Lizardking was the father of doskpop, which can be described as soft digital disco music, somewhere in between 1980s electronic disco music such as Laserdance and Vangelis.

2013, Karen Collins, From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media:

(demoscene, rare) A style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.


ma non troppo

The opening section is clearly written in the French overture style, leading into a lively Allegro ma non troppo where imitative, fanfare-like entries abound.

1992, Albert R. Rice, The Baroque Clarinet, →ISBN, page 106:

There is some confusion over the metronome mark of the slow movement. The violin and piano reduction gives ♪=69, which is wholly inconsistent with the tempo indication 'Lento ma non troppo'.

2013, Norman Del Mar, Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works, →ISBN:


Nahavand

(music) Synonym of maqam, a modal structure.


song-craft

The purpose of the anecdote is to show the bold recklessness of the warrior, who could amuse himself with his song-craft in the very face of the enemy.

1846, Thomas Wright, “Essay III. The Chansons de Geste, or Historical Romances of the Middle Ages”, in Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages. […] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 94:

Pause by some neglected graveyard, / For a while to muse, and ponder / On a half-effaced inscription, / Written with little skill of song-craft, / Homely phrases, but each letter / Full of hope, and yet of heart-break, / Full of all the tender pathos / Of the Here and Hereafter;— / Stay and read this rude inscription, / Read this Song of Hiawatha!

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 8–9:


The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.


Like 911, 119, etc., selected as a number both fast and easy to call from rotary or touch-tone phones and less likely to be mistakenly dialed.

The telephone number for emergency services in Iran.

110 handles police emergencies in Japan and Korea but fires and medical emergencies have a separate number, 119.

The telephone number for law enforcement in China, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, Bolivia, Guatamala, Andorra, Nauru, and the Ivory Coast and on Taiwan.

The telephone number for ambulance services in Jamaica, Syria, and Sri Lanka.

The telephone number for firefighting assistance in Norway, Jamaica, Suriname, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Papua New Guinea.


luminar

Those who are familiar with the laws of interference, of the polarization of light, &c, know, that, according to the wave theory, the luminar vibrations are not longitudinal, like the vibrations of sound […]

1848, John Bernhard Stallo, General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature:


Vegas mode

Named after Las Vegas, because the city is known for having signs and slot machines with flashing lights.

I was in Vegas mode. My mind was on girls and gambling.

2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Vegas, mode.


yacht rock

A retronym, suggesting the stereotype of a yuppie listening to the music while out sailing.

Yacht rock from the 1970s floated over the aisles like a bad storm cloud, dumping torrents of Christopher Cross and of the band that gave me sweaty nightmares, Steely Dan.

2012, Jenn Bennett, Summoning the Night: An Arcadia Bell Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(music) A smooth, melodic form of soft rock music of the late 1970s and early 1980s.


tubelight

From tube + light. The "dim-witted person" sense arises from their flickering as well as the length of time it takes for one to light up completely after being switched on.

And Modiji, also being Snarkyji, described Rahulji as a tubelight because Rahulji had interjected only a good 40 minutes after Modiji had launched into his Parliamentary speech.

2020 February 7, “Tubelight and other insults”, in Deccan Herald:

(chiefly India, slang) a dim-witted person; someone who is slow to understand or reply.


fireman's flap

(slang) The flap for defecation in a union suit.


guitar pop

The term saw increased usage in the 1980s in journals like NME.

(music) Guitar-based pop/rock music, such as pop rock, jangle pop, or indie pop.


radiodating

Determining the age of artefacts by means of radiometry.


scrunge

[…] Sun to Sun sure gives the current crop of jingle-jangle scrunge bands the kick in the ass they deserve.

1996, SPIN, volume 11, number 11, page 24:

(music, slang, derogatory) An inauthentic form of grunge music.


mutant disco

From the name of an early compilation album from ZE Records.

(music) An avant-garde subgenre of disco music.


acousticky

en-adj

acousticky (comparative more acousticky, superlative most acousticky)

more acousticky (comparative)
most acousticky (superlative)

(music, informal) More or less acoustic in nature.


kerolox

(astronautics) A type of binary rocket fuel composed of liquid oxygen (lox) oxidizer and liquid kerosene combustible.

Rocket Propellant 1; a specialized formulation of kerosene

Jet Propellant 1; a specialized formulation of kerosene

Jet Propellant 8; a specialized formulation of kerosene

Jet A

Jet Fuel A; a specialized formulation of kerosene


brostep

In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.

2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, new and revised edition, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers:

(music, originally derogatory) A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.


afterstroke

From Middle English after-stroke, equivalent to after- + stroke.

(music) A type of grace note that appears after the subject note rather than before


barrel piano

(music) An early pianola or player piano.


crunkmeister

From crunk + -meister (suffix indicating an expert on a specified subject).

suffix

In the South, where folks often walk straight off the corner into the congregation, people expect rap to touch on the sacred as well as the profane, though it handles the latter much more convincingly than the former. Pastor Troy flips this equation. On his uneven but occasionally stirring new release, the ATL crunkmeister is at his best when dropping lyrics about the rapture […]

2002, Vibe, volume 10, number 11, [Miamisburg, Oh.?]: Vibe Media Group, Miller Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162:

The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards returns to South Florida Oct. 10, the magazine officially announced at a news conference in New York Thursday. […] Chicago newcomer Kanye West tops the list of nominees with seven nods. Atlanta rapper Ludacris follows with six; crunkmeister Lil Jon was nominated for four awards.

2004 September 10, Evelyn McDonnell, “Source Awards hop to Miami”, in The Miami Herald, number 362, Miami, Fla.: Miami Herald Media Company, The McClatchy Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4A, column 1:

Lil Jon, Petey, T.I., Trick Daddy, all you thuggin' crunkmeisters, I apologize. A while back, I started listening to Power 92, where crunk currently reigns supreme, and now I'm fucking hooked.

2005 January 6, Brendan Joel Kelley, “Crunk junkie”, in Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, Ariz.: New Times, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-16:

[A] couple of reggae-flavored tracks [from In My Mind by Heather Headley], including the Shaggy-assisted "Rain," and the sweetly nostalgic doo-wop throwback "Back When It Was," which, in a marked stylistic departure, was produced by crunkmeister Lil Jon.

2006, People, volume 65, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:

And though his [Juicy J's] sound has definitely diverged from the gritty gangsta rap style he perfected while in Three 6 Mafia, the rubbery-voiced emcee, who now makes upbeat, bouncy party jams, is still every bit the crunkmeister.

2017 February 2, Jessie Schiewe, “Chronicles of the Juice Man: Three 6 Mafia co-founder Juicy J is killing it as a solo artist”, in SF Weekly, San Francisco, Calif.: Clint Reilly Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-16:

(music, slang, rare) A performer of crunk music.


museme

Brought to popularity by Philip Tagg, derived from the work of Charles Seeger.

Having established extramusical 'meaning' at the micro level, one should proceed to the explanation of the ways musemes are combined, simultaneously and successively.

2000, Richard Middleton, Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music:

(music) A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics.


spring reverb

en-noun

spring reverb (countable and uncountable, plural spring reverbs)

(music, countable) A system with a transducer at one end of a metal spring and a pickup at the other, used to create a reverb sound effect.


bisrock

(music) Rock and pop music with lyrics primarily in Cebuano.


lime green

lime green (countable and uncountable, plural lime greens)

A bright, light-green colour, like that of a lime.


gqom

Derived from an onomatopoeic combination of click consonants from the Zulu language, representing the sound of a drum.

South African artists include rapper Sho Madjozi, gqom acts Rude Boyz, Dominowe and Phatstoki, and sgubhu producer Sleeping Buddah.

2018 September 4, “Lokodo: This ugly thing called Nyege Nyege not happening this year”, in Daily Monitor:

Although gqom's early history is blurry, its originators generally agree that it first emerged from Durban around the start of the 2010s, recorded using pirated software, shared on social media and by mobile phone, and popularised by minibus-taxi drivers who blasted the sound to attract young passengers to ride with them.

2018, Matthew Collin, Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 202:

(music) A minimalistic style of house music from South Africa.


Thai stick

Thai stick (countable and uncountable, plural Thai sticks)

Each model also has a rubber cap over the butt end of the bundle, so if you want a totally "click-free" sound for certain sections of a song, you can flip the Thai stick over and use the back end.

2002, Modern Drummer: MD. - Volume 26, Issues 7-12, page 56:

Instruments used in the songs include drumset, djun-djun, Udu drums, metal guiro, Thai sticks, bata drums, cajon, surdo, shekere, klong yaw (a drum from Thailand, like a djembe), doumbek, asonga (hybrid standing drum by Remo), tubano (another drum by Remo), and various exotic cymbals.

2004, Percussive Arts Society, Percussive notes - Volume 42, page 64:

. Intense trap-set drumming with mega 'rim shots' proved that our Thai Sticks made from bundled bamboo were tougher than wood sticks commonly used by drummers.

2007, Ken Albertsen, Farmsteading in Thailand, →ISBN, page 60:

(countable, music, usually in the plural) A bundle of thin bamboo sticks used for percussion.


gunmetal-gray

(US) Alternative spelling of gunmetal-grey.


gunmetal grey

gunmetal grey (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetal greys)

gunmetal grey:

A dark grey colour with a tint of blue; gunmetal.


zendrum

(music) An electronic percussion instrument plated somewhat like a guitar


keywork

The fingering challenges that arise are similar to those above, involving unorthodox key usage, half- and sometimes quarter-holing, and unusual configurations of keywork.

2017, Eric F. Clarke, editor, Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music:

(music) Collectively, the mechanisms of a woodwind musical instrument such as a flute or clarinet that support the operation of its keys.

koneisto

collectively, the mechanisms of a woodwind musical instrument such as a flute or clarinet that support the operation of its keys


Ajam

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَم (ʕajam, “non-Arabs; Persians”), or via Persian عجم ('ajam). Doublet of Ayam.


bass drop

Based around a wailing diva and a bass drop that had the emotional weight of a Detroit synth wash, "Remember the Roller" proved that you could be just as expressive with rhythmic elements as you could with keyboards.

1999, Peter Shapiro, Drum 'n' Bass: The Rough Guide, →ISBN:

There's no way to build to a peak except to get quiet first, and after each breakdown comes another bass drop.

2013, Chuk Moran, Superactually: Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life, →ISBN:

In metalcore subgenres, bass drops are often utilized under the first chord of a breakdown, to emphasize the breakdown and give it a presence. A bass drop in this genre can be created by the bass, mostly known by a slide, or the drums, with an electronic pad.

2016, CTI Reviews, Photography, A Cultural History, →ISBN:

The bass drop—like the tonic cadence in tonal music—has become a convention of the style.

2017, Tom Perchard, From Soul to Hip Hop, →ISBN:

(music) A pause in the percussion, followed by a reintroduction of drums accompanied by a heavy bass line.


alt-rocker

Echoing the rhapsodic prog-rock vibes of Pink Floyd circa ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, the new track marks an ambitious step into uncharted territory for Coldplay, though not eschewing too far from the alt-rockers’ standard fare.

2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, in NME:

(music, informal) A performer of alternative rock music.


tahrir

Borrowed from Persian تحریر (tahrir), from Arabic تَحْرِير (taḥrīr, “liberation; release”).

der

Karimi includes an extensive tahrir within the final syllable of the verse ...

2009, Owen Wright, Touraj Kiaras, Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective, page 103:

But it should be emphasized that Iran and Azerbāijān, which partake of the same musical culture, have the most intricate and highly elaborate form of tahrir in the world.

2012, Lloyd Miller, Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B): The Art of Avaz, page 109:

(music) a type of vocal ornamentation; especially the variant used in the Near and Middle East


imbongi

en-noun

imbongi (plural izimbongi or iimbongi or imbongis)

izimbongi (plural)
iimbongi (plural)
imbongis (plural)

Borrowed from Zulu imbongi and Xhosa imbongi. The plural izimbongi is derived from Zulu, while iimbongi is from Xhosa.

Let us consider the contemporary oral poetry of the Xhosa Bantu[…], and its highest form, the praise-poetry of male tradents, who were attached until recently to tribal chiefs. The tradents are imbongi ‘praise poets’ and the genre of their work is the izibongo ‘praise poem.’ “The lines of the imbongi’s oral izibongo do not display either syllabic or quantitative meter … though there is some reason to believe that one may be able to determine certain recurrent intonational patterns that function as meter” ([Jeff] Opland 1975: 194).

1980, M. O'Connor, “Hebrew Verse Structure”, in Hebrew Verse Structure, Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, published 1997, →ISBN, section 1.7.2 (Constriction in Other Languages), page 157:

[…] Mbutuma and Manisi are both "traditional" iimbongi, but Manisi's oral poetry is more historical than Mbutuma's – so that the bearer of a tradition is an individual creative artist even though he shares attributes with other participants in the tradition. […] Few Xhosa iimbongi today are untouched by urbanization, literacy, and exposure to mass media. How have these forces affected the tradition? To what extent can modern iimbongi be considered traditional?

1983, Jeff Opland, “Change in the Tradition”, in Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture; 7), Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:

In the national figures this bawdy laughter seems hardly ever to be present; it is only slyly winked at once in the King's praises in the "pillow" reference, but on the whole it is suppressed or censored out by successive izimbongi.

1991, Liz Gunner and Mafika [Pascal] Gwala, translators and editors, “Introduction: Izibongo, Power, and the Popular Voice”, in Musho!: Zulu Popular Praises (African Historical Sources; no. 3), East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN:

Sunday Times Managing Editor, Ray Hartley – a former political correspondent – is brutal about the state of political journalism. He questions the lack of analysis and debate about government policy and dismisses a lot of the writing about President [Thabo] Mbeki and the government as 'hagiography'. While the government may have its media imbongis (praise singers), much of the problem lies with inexperienced political reports and poor newsroom leadership.

2005, Angela Quintal, “Political Reporting”, in Adrian Hadland, editor, Essays on South African Journalism, Cape Town: HSRC Press, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 55–56:

Modern South African film directors and performers as bards, izimbongi or storytellers have only residues of existing 'traditional societies' to bring to the surface. Where primarily oral cultures elaborate their stories within the epic form, fables and extraordinary heroes and fantasies, the izimbongi in The People's Poet and Songololo are more concerned with cultural loss, oppression, colonisation and emancipation.

2006, Keyan G[ray] Tomaselli, “Orality in African Cinema: Reasoning, Representation and Relativism”, in Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas (SAVUSA Series; 4), Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers; South Africa: UNISA Press, →ISBN, page 92:

Mandhlakazi provided a description of the dress and actions of izimbongi (praise singers) as they recited and performed praises and told Stuart, / I, Mandhlakazi, once asked a son of Magolwana how it was that the Zulu izimbongi were able to remember the praises of kings to so extraordinary a degree[…]. He said it was because they were given always tripe to eat. Moreover, they used to eat the drug umklele, […]

2015, Elizabeth A. Eldredge, “Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of South African History”, in Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa: Oral Traditions and History, 1400–1830 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; 64), Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press; Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 46:

An interesting exception to the generally formal, apprenticeship-based training assumed for the professions is that of the imbongi, or praise-poet, among groups such as the Zulu and Xhosa in southern Africa. The imbongi is in many ways a unique figure in traditional society; his role is part historian, part counselor, part social and political critic. The imbongi fulfills a role similar to that played by the medieval bard, relying both on the established oral tradition and his own ability to improvise in creating the appropriate izibongo (praise-poem) for the occasion.

2018, Timothy Reagan, “‘A Wise Child is Talked to in Proverbs’: Indigenous Educational Thought and Practice in Africa”, in Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches to Thought and Practice, 4th edition, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 83:

(chiefly South Africa) A praise singer, a traditional bard in Zulu culture.


viola pomposa

(music) An 18th-century five-stringed form of viola


gambang

(music) A xylophone-like instrument with wooden bars, used in Indonesian gamelan and kulintang music.


palatinate purple

palatinate purple:


ultra pink

ultra pink (Crayola shocking pink):

A very bright pink color, related to shocking pink.


Hollywood cerise

From the series of color pencils named Venus Paradise.

Hollywood cerise:


Schubertian

en-adj

Schubertian (comparative more Schubertian, superlative most Schubertian)

more Schubertian (comparative)
most Schubertian (superlative)

Of or relating to Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Austrian composer.


khim

a stringed musical instrument from South East Asia, played with bamboo sticks.


roneat ek

A xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia.


roneat thung

A low-pitched xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia.


alamoth

Borrowed from Hebrew עֲלָמוֹת (‘ălāmōṯ, “women of childbearing age”), feminine plural of עֶלֶם (èlem, “man of marriageable age”).

bor

1 Chronicles 15:20 Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth ...

(biblical, music) soprano or, possibly, virgin


schalmei

From German Schalmei, from Middle High German schalmīe, from Old French chalemie. Compare Middle English shalemye.

Viols, bassoons, schalmeis (ancestors of the clarinet), horns, trumpets, kettle-drums, and other instruments afterward used in the orchestra were known in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, but there were no organizations of them.

In 1689 it was ordered in Chemnitz that schalmeis were to be played only by town musicians.

1980, Journal, International Double Reed Society, page 4:

This instrument, also called the pommer, is a forerunner of the oboe. it has a narrow, conical bore and a double reed that is held between the lips of the player, as in older schalmeis that had no wind-cap.

2003, Bert Oling, Heinz Wallisch, The Complete Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, Chartwell Books, →ISBN, page 97:


barococo

Blend of baroque + rococo, coined by musicologist H.C. Robbins-Landon.

(music, derogatory) Of or relating to a style of easy listening music that originated in the Baroque and pre-Classic periods, associated with the emergence of LP records and the ability to listen repeatedly to recordings without paying attention to structure etc.


co-sounding

(music, acoustics, physics) sounding together


nightcore

From night + core (“key part of a thing”). from Nightcore, the name of the Norwegian duo who created the genre, who said their name meant "we are the core of the night, so you'll dance all night long."
Around 2008, others started making their own songs in the same style and used the term nightcore not to refer music made by the duo, but to the new genre of music as a whole. As this usage spread and knowledge of the original duo faded, the term was reanalyzed as night + -core in the same style as other music genres like metalcore, rapcore, etc.

Mofo's [motherfucker's] tagging nearly everything Nightcore : it's not Nightcore! Maybe if you knew about hardcore you'd know that in the first place. <_<

2009 May 2, @StatusMessage, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-08:

It's all in the title. Anyone know of good original Nightcore songs? Original being the key word here. And I guess any other really good Nightcore song too.

2011 December 1, Zephyranth [username], “Any original Nightcore songs?”, in Narkive [originally posted on Yahoo! Answers], archived from the original on 2023-06-21:

Grimes has shared a new remix of her recent single “We Appreciate Power.” Billed as a “Nightcore Remix” and produced by HANA, the track sees the original song (also featuring HANA) sped up and pitch-shifted.

2019 January, Noah Yoo, “Grimes Shares New Nightcore Remix of ‘We Appreciate Power’: Listen”, in Pitchfork:

A plunderphonic style of music based on taking an original track and speeding it up, increasing its pitch. Usually associated with visuals of anime-style artwork.


coresonant

(music, acoustics, physics) resounding or echoing together


salmon-coloured

en-adj

salmon-coloured (comparative more salmon-coloured, superlative most salmon-coloured)

more salmon-coloured (comparative)
most salmon-coloured (superlative)

salmon:

Having a pale pinkish colour, as of cooked salmon.


fashwave

Blend of fascist + vaporwave. Compare synthwave, darkwave, new wave.

“The Jew-owned Buzzfeed^([sic]) blog has done an article about how fashwave has become the musical soundtrack of the alt-right,” the piece said.

2016 December 14, Michael Hann, quoting Reggie Ugwu, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian:

In fashwave, as in all fascist art (yes, that’s what the “fash” part stands for), the far right’s insecurities and apocalyptic death wish are chiefly on display.

2018 January 13, Jack Smith IV, “This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right”, in Mic:

Vaporwave music and art with fascist themes.


actinate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of actinium, or salt containing such an oxyanion


americate

(inorganic chemistry) An oxyanion of americium; a salt containing this anion


berkelate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of berkelium; any salt containing such an anion


californate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of californium; any salt containing such an ion


pump attendant

Someone who works at a petrol station filling up vehicles with petrol


hair metal

Referring to the typically long hair of the performers.

(informal, derogatory, music) Glam metal.


protest song

A song that is associated with a movement for social change.


Skobeloff green

Skobeloff green:

There is one very bright empire green, and those shades of bluish green to which new names have been affixed, i.e., Troika, Strogoif and Skobeloff; also two series of bright pinks and reds.

1904, “Color card notice”, in Millinery Trade Review, volume 29, page 18:

The colors that dominated were black, brown and Skobeloff green, giving the space a calm, natural vibe.


Eddington limit

en-noun

Eddington limit (plural Eddington limits)

Named after British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington

named-after

Eddington luminosity
Eddington luminosity#English

(physics) Synonym of Eddington luminosity


claviharp

(music) A 19th-century musical instrument combining a harp with a keyboard.

Klavierharfe

A musical instrument combining a harp with a keyboard


dumbek

From Modern Turkish dümbek, from Ottoman Turkish دنبك (dümbek), from Persian دنبک (donbak). Doublet of tombak.

The Middle Eastern jar shaped drum generally referred to as the dumbek is gaining enormous popularity among today's hand percussionists.

2000, John Marshall, Hand Drums for Beginners: An Easy Beginning Method, →ISBN, page 33:

Dumbek are used in a wide range of ensembles in both classical and folk music.

2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, →ISBN:

Behind her, a band of drummers hesitated in mid-beat over now-silent dumbeks.

2014, Robin Wayne Bailey, Swords Against the Shadowland, →ISBN:


neptunate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of neptunium; any salt containing such an ion


Evans blue

Named after Herbert McLean Evans, an American chemist.

(organic chemistry) An azo dye with very high affinity for serum albumin.


plutonous

(inorganic chemistry) Containing plutonium in a low oxidation state


plutonate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of plutonium; any salt containing such an anion


polonate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of polonium; any salt containing such an anion


promethate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of promethium; any salt containing such an anion


protactinate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of protactinium; any salt containing such an anion


radate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of radium; any salt containing such an anion


subdominance

(music) The quality or state of being subdominant.


hypermese

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑπερμέση (hupermésē, “lying over the μέση (mésē) string”).

bor

lying over the <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">μέση</i> (mésē) string


semi-harmonic

(jazz) A stressed note, deliberately incorrect.


repinique

A two-headed Brazilian drum used in samba ensembles.


tiller truck

From tiller + truck. From having rear-wheel steering similar to a boat's tiller, on the truck.

A type of firetruck, an aerial ladder truck that is articulated with a tillerman's position to steer the rear of the trailer into tight spaces.


Baryton

(music) A reed stop on an organ of 16' or 8' that is imitative of a baryton.


unimetric

(music) Having a single metre throughout.


unitemporal

(music) Having a single tempo throughout.


spirit blue

A blue aniline dye used as an indicator in agar for detection of lipase activity in bacteria.


bainin

en-noun

bainin (countable and uncountable, plural bainins)

Borrowed from Irish báinín, from bán (“white”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

By the time it had some of the dirt and grease removed (part scouring) it had become the creamy natural colour (bainin) with which we are all familiar, and although the patterns are worked in other fashion colours and yarns, the true Aran is only made from the thickish bainin woolen yarn.

2012, Shelagh Hollingworth, Traditional Aran Knitting, page 14:

(Ireland) the creamy white colour of such yarn or cloth


twankle

en-verb

twankle (third-person singular simple present twankles, present participle twankling, simple past and past participle twankled)

twankles (present singular third-person)
twankling (participle present)
twankled (participle past)
twankled (past)

(UK, dialect) To twang with the fingers on a music instrument.


gobble-pipe

1937, liner notes to the album The Camel Caravan by Benny Goodman


agony-pipe

This was that same agony-pipe, which, in the German rhapsody, wails its way into the most exciting of all symphonic expressions of the jazz idiom...


vespering

“O vespering bird, how do you know”

1910, Thomas Hardy, The Year’s Awakening:

(poetic) westward; moving toward the setting sun.


jazz rap

(music) A fusion subgenre of hip-hop and jazz music, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.


paraphonia

From Ancient Greek παραφωνία (paraphōnía).

(music) In Byzantine music, a melodic progression by consonances (fourths and fifths).


pyromachy

The general-in-chief of pyromachy was holding in readiness a detail outfitted with supplies of tinder and torches for emergency incendiary action.

1950, Paul Frischauer, So great a queen: the story of Esther, Queen of Persia, page 313:


houngenikon

The houngenikon thereupon starts off the song, the drums and the chorus join in and when it is ended the houngan inquires: “Are you satisfied?”

1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 51:

The drums changed and the Houngenikon came dancing on to the floor, holding a vessel filled with some burning liquid from which sprang blue and yellow flames.

Sometimes Bienaimé nods in the direction of a particularly noisy racket, and the houngenikon flicks at those kids with his whip.

I was told that the Vodou priest Cesar had had a serious fight with Nicole, the ounjenikon, mistress of song, of his temple.

1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 211

(voodoo) The leader of singing in a voodoo ceremony.


footlighted

a footlighted stage


dysphuistic

en-adj

dysphuistic (comparative more dysphuistic, superlative most dysphuistic)

more dysphuistic (comparative)
most dysphuistic (superlative)


drant

en-verb

drant (third-person singular simple present drants, present participle dranting, simple past and past participle dranted)

drants (present singular third-person)
dranting (participle present)
dranted (participle past)
dranted (past)

From Scots drant, draunt (“droning or drawling tone”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic dranndan, draundan (“hum, buzzing, complaint, growl, snarl”), akin to Irish dranntan (“hum, buzzing, growl”).

(Scotland, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To drawl; to drone.


bambuco

(music) A traditional music genre from Colombia, formed in the 19th and 20th centuries as a blend of Basque folk music and the European waltz.


witch house

Inspired by early rave and dream-pop, witch house also takes its cue from the "chopped and screwed" remix technique so prevalent in early 90s hip-hop.

2010 September 25, Tim Jonze, “Witch house and the musicians taking us back to the future”, in The Guardian:

(music, neologism) A style of music characterized by chopped and screwed hip-hop soundscapes, industrial and noise experimentation, and the use of synthesizers, drum machines, obscure samples, droning repetition and heavily altered, ethereal, indiscernible vocals.


scrumpy and western

(UK, humorous, music) A genre of comical folk songs from England's West Country.


Italo house

(music) A fusion genre of house music and Italo disco.


topshur

Borrowing from Russian топшу́р (topšúr), from Southern Altai топшуур (topšuur).

Favorite instruments of the Mongolians of Xinjiang are the matouqin, the sihu, the sanxian or three-stringed lute and the topshur.

1989, Ping Cheng, Xinjiang: The Land and the People, page 127:

In these services, traditional instruments like the komus (mouth harp) and topshur (a two-stringed instrument), as well as well-established throat singing techniques, are often used.

2009, L. Broz, “Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai.”, in Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union:

(music) A plucked two-string lute traditionally used by the Altai people.


cloud rap

(music) A subgenre of hip-hop music characterised by airy or atmospheric production.


ngoma drum

Any of a set of drums used in Bantu music, traditionally made of wood covered with cow skin.


harmoniphone

A free-reed musical instrument played with a keyboard, in which the sounds are produced by reeds set in a tube, and vibrating under pressure from the breath; a precursor of the modern melodica.


sidereal month

The time in which the moon passes round the ecliptic to the same star: 27.3217 days.


dust-colored

en-adj

dust-colored (comparative more dust-colored, superlative most dust-colored)

more dust-colored (comparative)
most dust-colored (superlative)

In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-colored hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked distrust of Wegg and an alertness to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion.

1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend:


Star of Bethlehem

(biblical) The bright star in the Gospel of Matthew that lead the "wise men from the East" to travel to Bethlehem.


Elfmanesque

Elfmanesque (comparative more Elfmanesque, superlative most Elfmanesque)

more Elfmanesque (comparative)
most Elfmanesque (superlative)

Reminiscent of the music of Danny Elfman (born 1953), American composer best known for his orchestral scores that suggest a comic or playful atmosphere of horror.


dichord

This in turn may lead to splitting the final note of the song into a dichord without the necessary existence of overlapping, but the dichord may be an interval of any kind, since it is melodically formed.

1981, Robert Fink, The Origin of Music: A Theory of the Universal Development of Music:


gatra

(music) A unit of melody in Javanese gamelan music, analogous to a measure.


kebyar

A style of gamelan music based on a five-tone scale, with marked changes in tempo.


home note

(music) The first note of a diatonic scale.


dotted note

A notation used in music that increases the duration of the basic note by half of its original value.


give tongue

en-verb

give tongue (third-person singular simple present gives tongue, present participle giving tongue, simple past gave tongue, past participle given tongue)

gives tongue (present singular third-person)
giving tongue (participle present)
gave tongue (past)
given tongue (participle past)

The hounds gave tongue as they scented the fox nearby.

He never goes by my Kennel but the Dogs give tongue;

1778, Gregory Lewis Way, Learning at a Loss, or The Amours of Mr. Pedant and Miss Hartley, volume 2, London, page 150:

The black-muzzled, tawny dog, a glimpse of which was seen in the chapter which first introduced its mistress to the reader, here gave tongue in the hall, amidst whose hollow space the deep bark resounded formidably.

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 15, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

About two o’clock in the morning the moon came out; from somewhere in the distance a coyote gave tongue, and The Worst Bad Man shivered a little.

1913, Peter B. Kyne, The Three Godfathers, New York: George H. Doran, page 68:

The strange, implacable heart-broken music of hounds giving tongue as they break from cover; […]

1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 4, in The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede Publishers, October 1932, →OCLC, book 1, section 3, page 40:

(of a dog or other canine) To bark; to howl, bay.

To vocalize loudly.
To bark; to howl, bay.

As the boat drew near the guillemots gave tongue. The sound came against the wind fierce and complaining, antagonistic like the voice of loneliness crying out against them and telling them to be gone—be gone—be gone!

1919, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Beach of Dreams, Toronto: S. B. Gundy, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 65:

(of an animal) To vocalize loudly.
(of a bird) To cry.

[…] the bugles gave tongue jubilantly:

1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Drums of the Fore and Aft”, in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, page 88:

There was a hoarse, rusty little bell on the gate that gave querulous tongue as she pushed it open.

1899, Alice Dunbar Nelson, “The Goodness of Saint Rocque”, in The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories:

From the belfry of the little church a bell suddenly gave tongue upon a frantic, hurried note that spoke unmistakably of alarm.

1917, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 1, in The Snare, page 20:

[…] guns gave tongue and breech-blocks swung
And palms rammed home the shell.

1918, Gilbert Frankau, “The Song of the Gunner-Dead”, in The Judgement of Valhalla, London: Chatto & Windus, page 16:

(of an object that makes a loud noise) To ring out, sound.


solifugal

From Latin sōl (“sun”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.

(astronomy, rare) Moving away from the sun.


skolion

(historical) A song sung by invited guests at banquets in Ancient Greece, often extolling the virtues of the gods or heroes.


Han purple

From Han + purple.
From being a purple pigment last used during the Han Dynasty.

barium copper disilicate
barium copper disilicate#English

A pigment made from barium copper disilicate (“BaCuSi₂O₆”), the first artificial purple pigment, used by Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty.

Egyptian blue

the first artificial pigment, and of chemical similarity to Han purple


Egyptian blue

en-noun

Egyptian blue (countable and uncountable, plural Egyptian blues)

From Egyptian + blue, from being a blue invented by Ancient Egyptians.

calcium copper tetrasilicate
calcium copper tetrasilicate#English

A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi₄O₁₀”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.

Chinese purple

the first artificial purple, one of the first artificial pigments

Prussian blue

the first artificial pigment widely used in the modern world; not an ancient pigment


non troppo

andante non troppo: slow, but not too slow


tumbi

A traditional North Indian musical instrument from Punjab with a single string.


reed organ

(music) A keyboard musical instrument of which the harmonium and the American organ are the principal types.