heliochemistry

(chemistry) The study of the chemical elements present in the Sun.


rosso corsa

From Italian rosso corsa (“racing red”), from rosso (“red”), corsa (“racing”).

rosso corsa:

A bright red colour commonly used on sports cars.


Apache fiddle

(music) A bowed string instrument of the indigenous Apache people of the southwestern United States, made from a plant stalk with one or two strings, often of horse hair.


chop chord

(music) A clipped backbeat; a muted chord that marks the off-beats or upbeats.


proto-prog

(music) The earliest work associated with the first wave of progressive rock music.


shit-brown

en-noun

shit-brown (countable and uncountable, plural shit-browns)

But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.

1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 60:

shit-brown:

(vulgar, informal) A dark brown colour, as of excrement.


petrocurrency

The currency of an oil-producing nation which tends to vary in value against other currencies in line with changes in the price of oil.


Kimigayo

From Japanese 君が代 (Kimi-ga-yo), "His Imperial Majesty's Reign".


flortaucipir

positron emission tomography
positron emission tomography

(medicine) A radioactive agent used in positron emission tomography


popify

en-verb

popify (third-person singular simple present popifies, present participle popifying, simple past and past participle popified)

popifies (present singular third-person)
popifying (participle present)
popified (participle past)
popified (past)

(transitive) To convert into a popular form; to adapt to the norms of pop music; to make poppy.


sneng

Borrowed from Khmer ស្នែង (snaeng, “horn (of an animal)”), from Old Khmer sneṅ (“horn”).

bor

An ox horn or water buffalo horn used by the Khmer people as a musical instrument. It has been used to call for assembly, to summon elephants from the field and by hunters to communicate over great distances.


neutron emission

en-noun

neutron emission (countable and uncountable, plural neutron emissions)

A form of radioactive decay, where a nucleus with a severe excess of neutrons, emits a neutron.


acidcore

(music) A subgenre of both acid techno and hardcore which combines the two.


photoneutral

(biology, physics) Unaffected by the action of light


overdamper

Coordinate term: underdamper

(music) A damper located above the hammers in a piano.


underdamper

Coordinate term: overdamper

(music) A damper located beneath the hammers in a piano.


jazz-hop

(music) A fusion subgenre of hip-hop and jazz music; jazz rap.


con amore

/ˌkɒn aˈmɔːɹeɪ/

/ˌkɑn əˈmɔɹeɪ/

(music, usually as an instruction) played gently, with tenderness


beta ray

A stream of beta particles (fast-moving electrons propagating through a gas or vacuum), such as emitted by a radioactive substance.


signature song

See the main entries. Formed as a compound in the 1920s.

(music, usually in the singular) A song in which its artist or band is best associated with or known for.

chanson phare

the song a performer is primarily associated with


Schrammelmusik

From Austrian German Schrammelmusik. Named after the brothers Johann Schrammel (1850–1893) and Josef Schrammel (1852–1895), Austrian composers and violinists.

(music) A style of Viennese folk music originating in the late 19th century, influenced by Slovenian, Moravian, and Hungarian traditions and characterized by a melancholic but melodious sound.

Johann Schrammel
Josef Schrammel
Schrammelmusik


SKSK

Reduplication of SK (literally “stop keying”).

reduplication

Scary Kids Scaring Kids
w:Scary Kids Scaring Kids

(music) Initialism of Scary Kids Scaring Kids, an American posthardcore band.


breeder reactor

en-noun

breeder reactor (plural breeder reactors)

A nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes.


barbershoppy

en-adj

barbershoppy (comparative more barbershoppy, superlative most barbershoppy)

more barbershoppy (comparative)
most barbershoppy (superlative)

(informal) Resembling or characteristic of barbershop music.


Sea of Storms

Blend of sea + Ocean of Storms. Variation of Ocean of Storms; replacement of the rare "Ocean" with the common "Sea", where many features on the Moon are called 'seas' (the maria), and only this one feature is called 'ocean'.

Mare Procellarum
Mare Procellarum#Translingual

Oceanus Procellarum
Oceanus Procellarum#Translingual

(planetology) Mare Procellarum: Synonym of Ocean of Storms (“Oceanus Procellarum”); A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System


Ocean of Storms

Calque of Latin Oceanus Procellarum (literally “Ocean of Storms”), from Latin oceanus (“ocean”) + procella (“storm”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.

calque

(planetology) A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System

en:Francesco Maria Grimaldi
en:Giovanni Battista Riccioli
en:Ocean of Storms


Sea of Tranquility

Calque of Latin Mare Tranquilitātis (spelled with one L), from Latin mare (“sea”)+tranquilitātis (“tranquility”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.

(planetology) A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.

en:Almagestum Novum
en:Francesco Maria Grimaldi
en:Giovanni Battista Riccioli
en:Sea of Tranquility (disambiguation)


box boy

The moving staff (or “box boys” as they are called because they lift a lot of speaker boxes) are in charge of transporting and positioning the equipment.

1997, Chris Potash, Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music from Ska to Dub:

[…] we drank to get a nice level while nodding our heads to some sweet reggae music.
Pete, Ade, Dinford, Andy P and Derrick Green had been their box boys since their early school days, Tony 'Noddy' Macdonald, Dave 'Frisky' Macdonald, Basil Grant, Harry the Snake and Curvis Butler ran the sound under the Thornton Heath banner and the sound was transported in an old brown Hovis truck.

A man who assists a disc jockey by transporting and setting up the speakers, the collection of records, etc.


in-ear monitor

A device with earbud-like earpieces used to provide audio to someone while eliminating external noise. A primary usage is to let stage performers clearly hear their live performance or various instructions.


silver band

‘Thump! Thump! Thump!’ said the drum of the Bures Silver Band.

The Eastbourne silver band, in bright red jackets, played California Here I Come.

a brass band with silver-coloured instruments


metronomize

en-verb

metronomize (third-person singular simple present metronomizes, present participle metronomizing, simple past and past participle metronomized)

metronomizes (present singular third-person)
metronomizing (participle present)
metronomized (participle past)
metronomized (past)

(music) To indicate the tempo of a piece of music by means of a metronome setting


burn away

burn away (third-person singular simple present burns away, present participle burning away, simple past and past participle burned away or burnt away)

burns away (present singular third-person)
burning away (participle present)
burned away (participle past)
burned away (past)
burnt away (participle past)
burnt away (past)

The laser burned away the excess body hair.

(ergative) To remove or be removed by burning.

In fact, McChrystal's whole manner was that of someone who's burned away frivolity and distractions from his life.

2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown:

(figurative, by extension) to remove instantly and forcefully; to evaporate


slash chord

So called from being written with a slash, such as Em/G (E minor with a G bass).

(music) A chord which has a bass note that is not the root note.


war drum

"What is it, then?" I asked. "Drums," said Lord John, carelessly; "war drums. I have heard them before." "Yes, sir, war drums," said Gomez, the half-breed.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

2003, “Pet”, performed by A Perfect Circle:

A drum that is beaten to rally and encourage troops or to signify that war is approaching.


quaake

quaake (third-person singular simple present quaakes, present participle quaaking, simple past and past participle quaaked)

quaakes (present singular third-person)
quaaking (participle present)
quaaked (participle past)
quaaked (past)

The duck drinks, plays in the water with her bill, picks her feathers, and quaakes like a living one.

1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation:

Obsolete spelling of quack (“make a noise like a duck”).


quaake

Obsolete spelling of quack (“noise made by a duck”).


Melbourne shuffle

en-noun

Melbourne shuffle (plural Melbourne shuffles)

(music, dance) A style of dancing in the rave scene, with fast-paced steps and heel-and-toe movements, T-steps, the running man, etc.


art track

(Internet) A YouTube video automatically generated by Google, consisting of a track in the YouTube Music repertoire and a still of its associated album art.


CAGED

(music) The barre chords C, A, G, E, and D.


lavta

Borrowed from Turkish lavta, ultimately from Venetian lauto. Doublet of laouto, lute, and oud.

A plucked string music instrument from Constantinople.


sidefill

(informal, music) A monitor speaker (one of a set) placed at the sides of a stage


downtune

en-verb

downtune (third-person singular simple present downtunes, present participle downtuning, simple past and past participle downtuned)

downtunes (present singular third-person)
downtuning (participle present)
downtuned (participle past)
downtuned (past)

We all downtune for this song so it's easier on the singer.

He downtuned his guitar to play along with the recording.

(music) To tune (a musical instrument) to a lower pitch.


koauau

Piripi holds the koauau toward them and places his finger at the mouth of the flute.

2004, Cathie Dunsford, Ao Toa: Earth Warriors, page 137:

(music) A small Māori flute, ductless and notchless, with three to six fingerholes.


rhythm and grime

(music) A genre of music combining elements of grime and rhythm and blues.


NSWR

(Australia, rail transport) Abbreviation of New South Wales Government Railways.


cancrizans

From Medieval Latin, present participle of cancrizāre (“to go backwards”), from Latin cancr-, cancer (“crab”) + Late Latin -izāre (“-ize”).

(music) A type of canon in which the imitating voice repeats the notes of the theme in reverse order


capriccietto

en-noun

capriccietto (plural capricciettos or capriccietti)

capricciettos (plural)
capriccietti (plural)


psalterion

Borrowed from Middle French psalterion, from Old French salterion, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), probably through Latin psalterium. Doublet of psalter, psalterium, and psaltery.

doublet

All ſubſtantiues endyng in on, hauyng i cõmyng next before on, be of tbe femyne gendre: Excepte Millyón a myllion⸝ eſcorpión a ſcorpyon a ſarpent⸝ ueſpilión a holy water ſpricle^([sic])⸝ eſtovrgión a ſturgion fiſhe⸝ psalterión a psaltrion […]

1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “To Know the Gendre of All Substantyues Endyng in N”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio vi, recto; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:

Notker, in the ninth century, says that the rotta (or chrotta) was derived from the psalterion — the ancient psalterion, as he even at that early time calls it.

1864, William Sandys, Simon Andrew Forster, chapter II, in The History of the Violin […] , London: William Reeves, →OCLC, page 21:

The interpretation of the kithara as the lower part of a human being and a psalterion as the higher appears to derive from Origen.

2017 October 19, Everett Ferguson, “The Active and Contemplative Lives: The Patristic Interpretation of Some Musical Terms”, in The Early Church at Work and Worship, volumes 3: Worship, Eucharist, Music, and Gregory of Nyssa, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 141:

(now historical, rare) Synonym of psaltery


carillonic

(music) Relating to, or characteristic of a carillon


chimesmaster

(music) A player of chimes, especially at Cornell University.


chromaticization

(music) The process, or the result of chromaticizing.


chromaticize

en-verb

chromaticize (third-person singular simple present chromaticizes, present participle chromaticizing, simple past and past participle chromaticized)

chromaticizes (present singular third-person)
chromaticizing (participle present)
chromaticized (participle past)
chromaticized (past)

(music) To make something chromatic or to use a chromatic scale


chromatist

(music) A person whose speciality is chromatics.


reverb plate

(sound recording, sound engineering) A metal plate used in a plate reverb device.

sound recording; sound engineering; sound recording; sound engineering


plate reverb

en-noun

plate reverb (countable and uncountable, plural plate reverbs)

(sound recording, sound engineering, countable) An electromechanical device used to produce a reverb sound effect, in which an electrical audio signal is made to vibrate a metal plate, and sensors attached to the plate pick up its reverberations.


potrack

en-verb

potrack (third-person singular simple present potracks, present participle potracking, simple past and past participle potracked)

potracks (present singular third-person)
potracking (participle present)
potracked (participle past)
potracked (past)

"Dem guineas potracked en waked me up, Son," whispered Neptune. "Now I aims to git whut 's been sneakin' off wid my fowls."

1920, Marie Conway Oernler, “IV: The Soul of Black Folks”, in The Purple Heights, New York: Century Co.:

Cocks crowed, guineas potracked, calves and goats bleated. A strain of music sang out above the confusion of sounds[…]

1932, Julia Mood Peterkin, chapter V, in Bright Skin: A Novel, University of Georgia Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 43:

Come de daybreak you hear de guinea fowls start potracking down at de edge of de woods lot, and den de roosters all start up 'round de barn and de ducks finally wake up and jine in.

1941, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, volume 13, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, →OCLC, page 334:

(archaic, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To make such a shrill, high-pitched noise.


acute radiation syndrome

en-noun

acute radiation syndrome (usually uncountable, plural acute radiation syndromes)

(pathology) An acute illness caused by irradiation of the entire body by a high dose of penetrating radiation in a very short period of time.


snozzle

A few minutes later, when the two RMFD vehicles arrived, the on-scene commander instructed one of them to take up a position on the left side of the airplane and to use its snozzle to apply firefighting agents in the airplane's main cargo compartment.

2005, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.15.3 Emergency Response”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Hard Landing, Gear Collapse, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003, archived from the original on 2020-10-18, page 24:

(aviation, firefighting) A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft to help extinguish a fire.


citharoedic

(music) Relating to a cithara or a citharist.


clavicymbal

(music, historical) An early form of harpsichord.


watchout

A change in wind direction is a watchout.

Being uninformed on firefighting strategy and tactics is a watchout.

(firefighting) Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.


cerulean blue

cerulean blue (usually uncountable, plural cerulean blues)

[…] the cars were painted in "Underground" colours with red and cream (later all red) exteriors, and cerulean blue and cream interiors.

1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:


MEGA

(orbital dynamics, space flight, astronautics) Abbreviation of Mars-Earth gravity assist.

orbital dynamics; space flight; orbital dynamics; space flight


bawu

A kind of free reed wind instrument from China that is shaped like a flute.


slightly enriched uranium

slightly-enriched uranium
slightly-enriched uranium#English

Alternative form of slightly-enriched uranium


slightly-enriched uranium

highly-enriched uranium
highly-enriched uranium

low-enriched uranium
low-enriched uranium

(nuclear physics) Enriched uranium with 0.9-2% uranium-235, requiring a special moderator with very low neutron absorption (such as heavy water or high-purity graphite) in order to be able to sustain a nuclear fission chain reaction. Used to increase power output and efficiency in a few types of nuclear reactors capable of running on natural uranium, and for downblending of highly-enriched uranium from decommissioned nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium suitable for use in commercial power reactors.


highly-enriched uranium

(nuclear physics, military) Enriched uranium containing at least 20% uranium-235 (some applications, such as fission weapons and naval reactors, use uranium enriched to as high as 80-95% uranium-235), and therefore capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction without needing a moderator; used in nuclear weapons and in a few types of nuclear reactors requiring very high power density or high neutron flux.


fast reactor

(nuclear physics, engineering) A nuclear reactor with no moderator, using fast neutrons directly in a controlled fission chain reaction without slowing them down, allowing for a much more compact reactor which uses fissile material much more efficiently and generates larger quantities of high-energy neutrons which can be used for breeding more fissile material or producing other useful radioactive nuclides, but requiring the use of highly-enriched uranium (at least 20% uranium-235) or other fuel containing a similarly high concentration of fissile material.


downblend

en-verb

downblend (third-person singular simple present downblends, present participle downblending, simple past and past participle downblended)

downblends (present singular third-person)
downblending (participle present)
downblended (participle past)
downblended (past)

The facility has the capacity to downblend 5 tonnes of bomb-grade uranium per year.

slightly-enriched uranium
slightly-enriched uranium

(usually transitive, nuclear physics) To blend highly-enriched uranium, typically from decommissioned nuclear weapons, with uranium containing a low concentration of fissile uranium-235 (slightly-enriched uranium, natural uranium, or depleted uranium) in order to convert it to low-enriched uranium suitable for use as fuel in standard power reactors but not usable for a fission bomb.


organoflerovium

Describing any organic derivative of flerovium, especially one that has a carbon-flerovium bond


MCM

en-noun

MCM (countable and uncountable, plural MCMs)

modern classical music
w:contemporary classical music

(music) Initialism of modern classical music.


arsonical

He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.

1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The History of Mr Polly, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 214:

1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393,
In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.

Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).


water fire

(Ocracoke Island) Light appearing on the body of swampy water at night due to gases released by decaying plant matter.


capriccetto

capriccetto (plural capriccettos or capriccetti)

capriccettos (plural)
capriccetti (plural)

(music) Alternative form of capriccietto


prompt neutron

(nuclear physics) A neutron produced immediately by the fission of an atomic nucleus, instead of being emitted by decaying fission products seconds to minutes later; over 99% of all fission neutrons are prompt neutrons (the exact proportion depends on the nuclide undergoing fission).


Handelian

en-adj

Handelian (comparative more Handelian, superlative most Handelian)

more Handelian (comparative)
most Handelian (superlative)

Of or relating to George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born Baroque composer.


bassanello

/ˌbæsəˈnɛləʊ/

From the name of Giovanni Bassano (Johann Bassanello), who may have been the inventor.

(music) A Renaissance double-reed woodwind instrument.


pianofortist

Mr. E[dward]. Knight completed his musical education in Germany, under the celebrated Ferdinand Ries, and was esteemed an excellent pianofortist and composer.

1834, United States Gazette, quotee, “Drama &c.”, in The Lady’s Magazine and Museum of the Belles-Lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume IV, number 8, London: […] J Page, […], section “Theatrical and Musical Intelligence”, paragraph “Death of Mr. E. Knight”, page 249, column 2:

“My love,” he answered, stopping and holding her still before him, “have you not yet perceived how your great-grandmother’s marriage will affect us? When the Countess of Halston marries her butler, no one will even think twice about her great-grand-daughter wedding a pianofortist.”

1976, Fiona Hill [pen name; Ellen Pall], Love in a Major Key, New York, N.Y.: Diversion Books, published 2014, →ISBN:

Miss Keele performed first and played exceptionally well, which was not surprising. She was by far a superior pianofortist.

2002, Valerie King [pen name; Caris Roane], A Rogue’s Embrace (Zebra Regency Romances), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, page 181:

(music) A person who plays the pianoforte.


coking coal

All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.

1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:

Among the numerous types of vehicles required are special 33½-ton vacuum-braked hopper wagons for iron ore imported at Newport docks, 21-ton vacuum-braked wagons for coking-coal and 56-ton vehicles for slabs and coils.

1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410:

Bituminous coal which is suitable for making into coke, for example for use in steel manufacture.


suncolored

When his head nodded, the fire blazed in the blackness of his dreams and sent suncolored streaks racing back and forth between his mind and soul.

2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 158:

Having a dazingly bright, yellow-orange color.


acocotl

(music) A Mexican musical instrument made from a gourd.


decadation

(music) The modification of a decad, typically to obtain a new series of consonant triads


rackboard

(music) A long board drilled with holes to support the pipes as part of an organ.


radiumtherapy

(medicine, dated) The therapeutic use of radium.


polymetre

(music) The use of different metres or time signatures either simultaneously or in succession


polyphonal

From Ancient Greek πολύφωνος (polúphōnos) + -al.


polytonalist

(music) A person who composes or plays polytonal music


polymeter

en-noun

polymeter (countable and uncountable, plural polymeters)


hexatone

(music) A derivative of an octave in which two notes are missing


heptadecad

(music) A group of seven decads arranged to produce twenty-four tones


misfinger

en-verb

misfinger (third-person singular simple present misfingers, present participle misfingering, simple past and past participle misfingered)

misfingers (present singular third-person)
misfingering (participle present)
misfingered (participle past)
misfingered (past)

The pupil comes for his lesson and possibly has not thoroughly learned some part of it; he does not keep the time true, misfingers, strikes wrong notes, or, to take a milder illustration, does not feel the balance of the parts, does not divine the meaning of the composer, does not appreciate the beauty of the unity of the work as a whole, has not, in fact, "finished" it;

1893 June, Herbert J. Krew, “A Music Teacher's Duty From the Standpoint of an Intelligent Pupil”, in Theodore Presser, editor, Etude: The Music Magazine, volume 11, number 6, page 129:

If Holmes misfingers a note on one of the violin strings, that is merely some small fault within the unified organisation of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Incorporated.

2000, Patricia Fanthorpe, Death: The Final Mystery, page 119:

The dancers had started on a third pass when Lady Lucianne piped a sour note. She blushed and laughed at her own mistake, interrupting her playing and causing Victor to misfinger his part as well.

2001, Teresa DesJardien, The Marriage Masquerade, page 49:

This means that if he misfingers and is thrown a distance from his intended note, he can continue from where he is, even if the note results in a modulation that takes him into another key.

2009, Stanley Crouch, Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz:

(music) To make a mistake in the finger positions when playing an instrument, resulting in a wrong note.


dodecuplet

(music) A group of twelve notes, typically to be played in place of eight.


szopelka

(music) A Russian double-reed wind instrument, similar in form to the zurna.


viola d'amore

en-noun

viola d'amore (plural viola d'amores or viole d'amore)

viola d'amores (plural)
viole d'amore (plural)

Borrowed from Italian viola d'amore (“viol of love”).

(music) A 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument similar to the treble viol, used chiefly in the Baroque period.


moonlighty

en-adj

moonlighty (comparative more moonlighty, superlative most moonlighty)

more moonlighty (comparative)
most moonlighty (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of moonlight.


omnitonic

(music, of an instrument) That can be played in any key


quinton

(music) A type of violin that had five strings


luminaphone

(music, historical) A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.


change a word, get a third

(music industry, colloquial) Making very minor alterations to a song's lyrics can entitle a person to one third of the royalty payments.


khyal

From Hindi ख़याल (xayāl)/Urdu خیال (xyāl).

(music) A form of Indian song composed of two matras.


kermesic acid

(organic chemistry) A red chemical pigment from the insect kermes dye named 1-methyl-2-carboxy-3,5,6,8-tetrahydroxyanthraquinone.


vastrap

(South Africa) A type of folk dance; the music of this dance


whamola

(music) A bass musical instrument played in the United States; a descendant of the washtub bass.


dolewave

(music, Australia) An Australian music genre which emerged in the early 2010s, typically laid-back, lo-fi and guitar-driven.


pyramid piano

From the shape of the instrument, which is roughly triangular, like a projection of a pyramid.

The return of the pyramid piano dates from 1804 from the workshops of Wachtl and Bleyer, in Vienna. .

1968, Franz Josef Hirt, Stringed Keyboard Instruments, 1440-1880, page 146:

His known pieces include a pyramid piano in Vienna in the “Sammlung alter Musikinstrument", two grand pianos and this giraffe piano; they were all made in Bohemia.

2001, Jiri Rak, Guido Lagomarsino, Biedermeier: Art and Culture in Central Europe, 1815-1848, page 178:

Upstairs there was a pyramid piano — an instrument of peculiar shape and height, like a concert piano turned up against the wall.

2020, Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, page 87:

A piano that has its strings slanting upward from left to right in a case that is shaped like a tall isosceles triangle.


slide trumpet

(music) A trumpet fitted with a slide (an early form of a slide trombone)


word painting

en-noun

word painting (countable and uncountable, plural word paintings)

(music) Program music, or the process of composing it.


glassophone

(music) A set of glasses filled with differing amounts of liquid so that they produce different musical notes when struck.


singing girl

She was a stranger in Palembang: she had fled from some one in in the interior, and had lately entered the house of Tumunggung Nora Wangsa; who was patron, also, of another singing girl present, called Sahdeeah.

1856, Walter M. Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden: And a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, Sampson Low Son & Company, page 213:

The Guide to the Yoshiwara gives a list of fifty-five singing-girls, besides a host of minor stars. These women are not to be confounded with the courtesans.

1870, “Tales of Old Japan, No. II—The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 14:

A girl is not considered disgraced if, for her parent's sake, she sells herself into the life of a "singing girl", geisha, or plain prostitute.

1943, Clyde B. Camerer, Peter E. Huth, “The Social Evil in Japan”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 41:

One was a revolt of the people of Medina, who had publicly withdrawn their allegiance to Yazid, in spite of his attempts to conciliate their leaders, in reaction, we are told, to the caliph's personal unsuitability for his office—charges such as enjoyment of singing girls and playing with a pet monkey are brought against him in the tradition.

2000 July 13, G. R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate, AD 661-750, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

A young woman of low social status (often enslaved) who performs as a musician and entertainer, especially in Asian societies.


burn barrel

A large metal container in which waste materials are disposed of by burning.


bitcrush

en-verb

bitcrush (third-person singular simple present bitcrushes, present participle bitcrushing, simple past and past participle bitcrushed)

bitcrushes (present singular third-person)
bitcrushing (participle present)
bitcrushed (participle past)
bitcrushed (past)

(music, transitive) To drastically distort the audio of sounds or music, usually using a bit crusher.


Bitcrusher

(music) Alternative spelling of bit crusher.


pentatonicism

(music) The condition of being pentatonic


pentatonically

(music) In a pentatonic manner; using a pentatonic scale


carbon detonation

en-noun

carbon detonation (countable and uncountable, plural carbon detonations)

(astronomy, nuclear physics) The explosive ignition of thermonuclear fusion within a carbon-oxygen white dwarf star that occurs when its mass exceeds approximately 1.4 times that of the Sun (due to accretion of material or merger with another star), producing a supernova which completely destroys the star.


depletalloy

(nuclear physics, historical) Depleted uranium.


hyperfractionation

International scientific vocabulary, from hyper- + fractionation = hyper- + fraction + -ation.

Treatment with several doses per day offers the prospect of a significant therapeutic gain using readily available low LET beams. These regimens can be classified as either accelerated fractionation or hyperfractionation according to their rationales. With accelerated fractionation a conventional number of dose fractions is delivered in a significantly shortened overall treatment time in order to reduce the opportunity for tumor cell regeneration during treatment. With hyperfractionation, on the other hand, a large number of significantly reduced dose fractions is used to give a greater total dose in a conventional overall treatment time.

1983, H.D. Thames Jr, L.J. Peters, H.R. Withers, G.H. Fletcher, “Accelerated fractionation vs hyperfractionation: rationales for several treatments per day”, in International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, →PMID, pages 127–138:

(radiotherapy) An especially highly divided form of fractionation: the division of a total dose of radiation into many small fractions.


multikeyboard

(music, of an instrument) Having two or more keyboards


overnite

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Everyone wanted to go to Randy's when done eating & I knew J planned on staying there overnite & spending Sunday there so I asked to be taken back to Sam's, saying I just didn't feel like crashing yet.


overnite

The latest facilities include a new C. B. & Q. westbound express, called the Overnite Denverite, covering the distance in 17 hr. 20 min., and an acceleration of the C. & N. W.-U. P. westbound Columbine to the same figure.

1939 September, “Overseas Railways: More American Accelerations”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:


hyperpop

Liz is the missing link between 90s R&B-tinged teen pop of the Britney/Xtina variety, and the hyperpop of the PC Music stable.

2016 January 1, Paul Lester, “Shake it up: the future female pop stars of 2016”, in The Guardian:

SOPHIE, a hyperpop genre pioneer, is known for their signature use of an Elektron Monomachine, which they compared to bubbles popping and metal clanging during their 2014 interview with Billboard.

2018 May 4, Sam Taylor, “Intro to: Hyperpop”, in WPTS Radio:

Back in July, Charli XCX tweeted the question: “what is hyperpop?” […] A few minutes after her glib inquiry about the burgeoning pop descriptor, she rejected the label entirely, tweeting: “I do not identify with music genres.” That brief exchange is as good a definition as any for the sound and ethos of hyperpop: a genre tag for distinctly genre-less music.

2020 October 27, Eli Enis, “This is Hyperpop: A Genre Tag for Genre-less Music”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

SOPHIE’s ascension beyond genre was incredibly impactful on hyperpop, and the musician’s impact on the expansion of music collectively is perpetuated through collaborations with a wide variety of modern musicians.

2021 February 7, Jocelyn Brossia, “Remembering SOPHIE: The Transformational Pioneer of Hyperpop”, in The University of California, San Diego Guardian:

Freelance music writer Shaad D’Souza speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about the rise of hyperpop and what it tells us about the influence of big corporations such as Spotify.

2021 June 10, Shaad D’Souza, “Behind the rise of hyperpop”, in The Guardian:

Glitches—sounds that intentionally evoke malfunctioning machines—are everywhere these days: in the chaotic loops of TikTok, in the choppy samples of Hot 100 rap, in the aggressive bustle of hyperpop.

2021 December 3, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Rare Experimental Musician to Embrace the Spotlight”, in The Atlantic:

A microgenre of music that exaggerates common traits from pop music, originated in the 2010s.


chenda

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

A type of percussion instrument used in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.


HALEU

HALEU (countable and uncountable, plural HALEUs)

low-enriched uranium
low-enriched uranium#English

Abbreviation of high-assay low-enriched uranium.; enriched uranium of 5%-20% enrichment


keraulophon

Derived from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”).

der+

(music) A particular flue organ stop of 8' pitch which produces a reedy tone.


drawknob

(music) A knob used to control the stop of an organ.


Dyson-Harrop satellite

en-noun

Dyson-Harrop satellite (plural Dyson-Harrop satellites)

From Dyson + Harrop + satellite. Coined by Brooks Harrop in 2010. From Freeman Dyson, who proposed the Dyson sphere; and Brooks Harrop, who proposed this power satellite design as the basis of the elements of the Dyson swarm.

A type of power satellite that derives energy from stellar wind through betavoltaics, by capturing free electrons (beta particles) in the wind; instead of through sunlight and photovolatics.

en:Dyson-Harrop satellite
en:Freeman Dyson


power satellite

power satellite (plural power satellites)

A type of artificial satellite that is a power station, which generates power that is beamed to consumers.


(music) A meter of five eighth notes per measure.


starbeam

(astronomy, very rare) An intense and visible ray of starlight; a ray or rays emitted from the star.


carboxyrhodamine

(organic chemistry) Any of a range of rhodamine dyes that have one or two carboxylic acid substituents


Prussian red

Prussian red (countable and uncountable, plural Prussian reds)

Discovered by Prussian chemist Leopold Gmelin.

(chemistry) Potassium ferricyanide, K₃[Fe(CN)₆], a highly poisonous ferric crystal salt of potassium cyanide used as a pigment.

The colour of this compound: a hue of semi-dark brownish red


Prussian red

en-adj

Prussian red (comparative more Prussian red, superlative most Prussian red)

more Prussian red (comparative)
most Prussian red (superlative)

Prussian red:


cutting contest

en-noun

cutting contest (plural cutting contests)

(music, historical) A musical contest between pianists in the stride jazz genre.


Muzaked

Of a piece of music: rearranged or otherwise converted into Muzak.


avcat

From aviation, aviation carrier (aircraft carrier), and aviation turbine fuel (avtur).

(US, military, aviation, nautical) Synonym of JP-5, the U.S. Navy jet fuel.


Initialism of jet propellant 8.; the lower-freezing point jet fuel used by the U.S. Air Force


Initialism of jet propellant 5.; the higher-flashpoint jet fuel used by the U.S. Navy


text painting

text painting (countable and uncountable, plural text paintings)

(music) Program music, or the process of composing it.


tone painting

tone painting (countable and uncountable, plural tone paintings)


crack the flags

en-verb

crack the flags (third-person singular simple present cracks the flags, present participle cracking the flags, simple past and past participle cracked the flags)

cracks the flags (present singular third-person)
cracking the flags (participle present)
cracked the flags (participle past)
cracked the flags (past)

See flag (“a flagstone”); the idea is that the extreme heat might cause paving-stones to split.

Early summer sunshine threatened to crack the flags outside.

1998, Julia Wild, Blue Silk Promise, page 80:

I was apprehensive, feeling butterflies, pissed, the sun cracking the flags.

2005, Andrew Porter, Suicide Squad: The Inside Story of a Football Firm:

[…] plus the sun was still cracking the flags as we headed back to Geneva.

2008, Dave Spencer, A Smudge on My Lens, page 276:

The sun's hot enough to crack the flags and there's not a cloud in sight.

2010, Maureen Lee, The House By Princes Park:

'Tis fit to crack the flags so you'll not be wantin' your brolly.

2012, Audrey Howard, There is No Parting:

(northern England, colloquial) Of the sun or sunshine: to beat down very strongly; to be extremely hot.


water drum

(music) Any membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a resonant sound.

A barrel or cylindrical container for holding water.


Hatikvah

Borrowed from Hebrew הַתִּקְוָה (“The Hope”).

bor+

The national anthem of Israel, based on a 19th-century Jewish poem.


Beethovenesque

en-adj

Beethovenesque (comparative more Beethovenesque, superlative most Beethovenesque)

more Beethovenesque (comparative)
most Beethovenesque (superlative)

Characteristic of the compositional style of Ludwig van Beethoven.


burnover

The situation in which a fire overtakes the firefighters who are attempting to deal with it.


bunkerman

(historical) A man in charge of an industrial coal storage bunker.


aeolsklavier

(music, historical) A modification of the aeolodicon, having wooden reeds or springs, and a pedal which triggered a set of bellows (one for each note) and produced a soft and ethereal sound.


Vaseline glass

From the resemblance in colour to Vaseline petroleum jelly.

(informal) A pale yellowish-green form of uranium glass.


uranium glass

Coordinate term: lead glass

A form of decorative glass with a fluorescent effect, achieved by adding uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to the glass before melting.


mint green

en-noun

mint green (countable and uncountable, plural mint greens)


superconflagration

/suːpəɹˈkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/

Over there, in the direction of Bainbridge, the sunset glowed like a superconflagration.

1917, Perley Poore Sheehan, Those who walk in darkness, New York G.H. Doran Co, →ISBN, page 205:

Governments and common stocks is embodied in the philosophy that, with large common stock commitments, all the risk of the portfolio should be concentrated in this category while the rest of the portfolio should be riskless - a kind of superconflagration reserve.

1953, Shelby Cullom Davis, Insurance Companies and the Interest Rate, Taylor & Francis:

In the mid-nineties was, physically, barely quarter-century old, almost all of it having been burned to the ground in October in 1871 in a superconflagration.

1983, Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: The world teacher, Advaita Ashrama, page 122:

Fires following these earthquakes would be a much bigger and broader issue than shown in the movie. In the much smaller M7.8 “ShakeOut Scenario” earthquake scenario for southern California, more than 1600 fires are projected to start, some becoming superconflagrations.

2015, Disaster Digest (Hollywood Fantasy Not California Reality), page 6:

(rare) A very severe, blazing conflagration.


preaching band

Musicians who identify as being part of a “Christian band,” also referred to as a “preaching band,” argue that “Christians in a band,” Christian musicians who do not call themselves a “Christian band,” are insincere because they keep quiet about their Christianity.

[2020, Ibrahim Abraham, Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


producer tag

(music) A short soundbite used by a producer, inserted into songs as an aural signature.


superenergy

"Slowly the glow and bliss faded and that superenergy drained away. Now that I've read your book and come to this workshop, I know the importance of zazen. But will zazen bring back that wonderful joy?"

1989, Philip Kapleau, Zen: Merging of East and West, Anchor Books, →ISBN:

Only a few days remained before the freeze, and they spent this period in a burst of superenergy, stripping bark and storing it for their their winter's food.

1995, James A. Michener, Creatures of the Kingdom: Stories of Animals and Nature, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 140:

In any local energy situation the centres and controllers exert near-supremacy, but they are always conscious of the superenergy presence and the unrecognizable performance of the Unqualified Absolute.

2011, Tigran Aivazian, The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers Book, Tigran Aivazian, →ISBN, pages 1211, 1212:

(physics, rare) Highly superior energy (in any sense).


upbrighten

en-verb

upbrighten (third-person singular simple present upbrightens, present participle upbrightening, simple past and past participle upbrightened)

upbrightens (present singular third-person)
upbrightening (participle present)
upbrightened (participle past)
upbrightened (past)

I looked on thee, at first, as looks the sun / Upon the earth upbrightening in his glance, […]

1904, Louis Kaufman Anspacher, Tristan and Isolde: A Tragedy, page 69:

(transitive, intransitive, poetic) To make or become brighter.


sonizance

(obsolete, music) The sound produced by a musical instrument


octavina

(music) A Filipino musical instrument resembling the guitar.


tone hole

(music) an opening in the body of a wind instrument which, when alternately closed and opened, changes the pitch of the sound produced.


progressive house

(music) A house music genre originating from the late 1990s.


ravanahatha

(music) An ancient bowed stringed instrument of India, Sri Lanka, and surrounding areas, possibly an ancestor of the violin.


Brill Building

After the Brill Building in New York City, where some (though not most) of the songs were written. The building acquired its name from a haberdasher who operated a store there and subsequently purchased the building.

But when a list of Brill Building songs was attached to the proposal, it seemed to go on forever and read like a history of pop music.

2001 August 25, Jim Bessman, quoting Carol Anne Dolan, “TV's ‘Hitmakers’ Spotlights Home of Brilliant Songwriting”, in Billboard, →ISSN, page 44:

As importantly, Brill Building music tended to utilize elements of African American music, often making use of vocal stylings characteristic of rhythm and blues—and, indeed, many songs typical of the Brill Building sound were sung by African American artists […]

2008, Jack R. Fischel, Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture, page 33:

Located at Broadway and 51st St. in Manhattan, Aldon and Nevins-Kirshner were part of the famous Brill Building music scene.

2016, Mark A. Moore, The Jan & Dean Record, page 74:

(music, historical, attributive) A style of pop music of the early 1960s, written by teams of professional songwriters to be performed by girl groups and teen idols.


cat organ

A hypothetical musical instrument consisting of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when keys are pressed.


bocedization

From the first three sung syllables ("bo, ce, di") + -ization.

(historical, music) A Flemish system of singing, similar to sol-fa, but employing the syllables "bo, ce, di, ga, lo, ma, ni".


wake loss

The space behind a wind turbine where there the wind power decreases after passing through the turbine due to the wind energy conversion to move the turbine blades.


demisemihemidemisemiquaver

From demi- + semi- + hemi- + demi- + semi- + quaver.

prefix

two hundred fifty-sixth note
two hundred fifty-sixth note

(music) A note having a time value half as long as a quasihemidemisemiquaver or 128th note; a two hundred fifty-sixth note.


sophisti-pop

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

The fact that the intellectual Green [Gartside] was also a friend and protégé of leading post-structuralist scholar, Jacques Derrida, served further to hype the postmodern playfulness of his sophisti-pop.

2012, Iain Ellis, Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 102:

(music) A subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.


Tuscan red

en-noun

Tuscan red (countable and uncountable, plural Tuscan reds)

The C.P.R. favours that old favourite of American railways, Tuscan red.

1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 552:

Tuscan red:

A dark shade of red, once popularly used for railcars.


rotary table

(oil industry) A mechanical device that provides clockwise rotational force to the drill string to facilitate the drilling of a borehole.


wetline

In cheatgrass the wetline technique has proven to be successful and is equally useful in other light to moderate grass fuels on relatively smooth terrain.

1982, Henry A. Wright, Fire Ecology: United States and Southern Canada, page 398:

We have used this method in the evening when strip headfires would burn into the wetline, but the backfire would go out.

1977, Robert E. Martin, Wetline Technique for Prescribed Burning Firelines in Rangeland:

(firefighting) A line that has been doused with water in order to stop the advance of a fire.


relative pitch

relative pitch (plural relative pitches)

Coordinate term: absolute pitch

(music, uncountable) The ability to identify or create a given note by comparing it with a reference note and discerning the interval between those two notes.

relativní sluch

the ability to identify or create a given note by comparing it with a reference note and discerning the interval between those two notes

(music, countable or uncountable) The interval between two notes.


jubilus

(music) The long melisma placed on the final syllable of the alleluia as it is sung in the Gregorian chant.


vamphorn

If we want to hear the full symphony of English church music, we have to include in our imaginings the sound of a Christmas anthem, sung through a vamphorn, accompanied by instruments strung with whipcord and twine.

2017, Andrew Gant, O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music, page 252:

(music, historical) A horn without holes or keys, used to amplify the voice in singing.


surpeti

Other Indian drone instruments include the surpeti. This is a small reed-free organ with no keys that has small bellows pumped by hand to produce the drone sound.

2010, Deborah Lock, editor, Children's Book of Music, Dorling Kindersley Limited, →ISBN, page 33:


UV radiation

ultraviolet radiation
ultraviolet radiation#English

Alternative form of ultraviolet radiation


naphthalide

(organic chemistry) a derivative of naphthalene; specifically a compound containing the monovalent naphthalene radical or the naphthalenide anion


naphthol blue

dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone


JMT

Journal of Music Theory
w:Journal of Music Theory

(music) Initialism of Journal of Music Theory.


amarevole

/ˌɑːməˈɹɛvəleɪ/


politicore

Blend of politico- + -core, or political + -core.

F.U.A.L. / ($7) truely^([sic]) great politicore from North Ireland

1990, Profane Existence, number 3, unnumbered page:

As far as I’m concerned, faster-than-you politicore like this is a hell of a lot more dangerous to individual thought than George Bush or a handful of Nazi skinheads will ever be.

1991, Jersey Beat, number 41, unnumbered page:

Politicore from Pennsylvania. Philosophically, this is pretty right on, calling for a “socialist/collectivist world-state.”

1997, Punk Planet, number 20, unnumbered page:

You will be billed later, shading within a garment may occur, shamelessly hamhanded politicore, sharp as a stick but not small in stature, […]

Austin politicore thrasher Beyond Gods and Empires

2013 August 9, The Austin Chronicle, page 60:

(music, uncommon) A subgenre of punk with overtly political themes.


fluviol

They are danced to the music of a curious orchestra of eleven instruments. The uppermost of these instruments is the fluviol, which is the melodic agent in the primitive combination of two instruments performed upon by the same player.

1929 August 11, Olin Downes, “As to the Sardanas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Sardanas begin with an improvised fluviol solo introduction of ten measures.

2008, Robert Francis Waters, Déodat de Séverac: Musical Identity in Fin de Siècle France, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 177:

(music) A small piccolo-like wooden flute used to accompany the sardana.


big oil

Eight years after Kyoto, Big Oil and Big Coal remain in complete and unchallenged power.

2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones:

It follows an inquiry launched by House Democrats in 2021, which focused on big oil’s alleged efforts to mislead the public about the climate crisis.

2023 June 21, Dharna Noor, “Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(business, derogatory) The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.


sprinkler head

A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.


neoperreo

Probably borrowed from Spanish neoperreo.


Boston Six

Second New England School
Second New England School

(music, historical, US) Six specific influential classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in Boston, considered part of the Second New England School: John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), Arthur Foote (1853–1937), George Chadwick (1854–1931), Amy Beach (1867–1944), Edward MacDowell (1861–1908), and Horatio Parker (1863–1919).


First New England School

(music, historical, US) A group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810; the Yankee tunesmiths collectively.


New England Classicists

Second New England School
Second New England School#English

(music, historical, US) Synonym of Second New England School


Yankee tunesmith

Yankee tunesmith (plural Yankee tunesmiths)

(music, historical, US) One of a group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810.


Second New England School

(music, historical, US) A group of classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in New England, based in and around Boston, Massachusetts.


trve

en-adj

trve (comparative more trve, superlative most trve)

more trve (comparative)
most trve (superlative)

(music, slang, humorous) True to the ideology or stereotypical manifestation of a given subculture, particularly among fans of heavy metal.


xenochronous

All the guitar solos (apart from “Watermelon In Easter Hay”) were xenochronous, creating a spacious, free-floating sonic universe.

2005, Katherine Norman, editor, Poetry of Reality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 132:

The effect creates a xenochronous composition out of a peculiar matching of quite disparate pieces.

2007, Kevin Courrier, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(music, uncommon) Recorded or processed using xenochrony.


xenochrony

From xeno- (“alien”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), coined by Frank Zappa.

af

Still, xenochrony was new: he had to fight his own engineers to allow him to do it, and it resulted in some extraordinary music.

1997, Andre Kostelanetz, The Frank Zappa Companion: Four Decades of Commentary, Schirmer Books, →ISBN, page 183:

Xenochrony is the technical term for this, and you can hear it when several shamans participate in one ritual, each with a personal tempo of drumming, each addressing personal spirits. Xenochrony became, in fact, an important strand in the story of K-Space, the trio that Ken Hyder and I put together with Tuvan singer and instrumentalist Gendos Chamzyryn.

2016, Tim Hodgkinson, Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 148:

(music, uncommon) A studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.


burn pit

burn pit exposure in Iraq

(US, military) An open-air pit where waste is burned. Long-term exposure to its smoke is associated with health problems.


Divje Babe flute

A cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes, dating from the Late Pleistocene era, that was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. It has been suggested that it was made by Neanderthals as a form of musical instrument, and as such it is possibly the world's oldest known musical instrument.


blonde bombshell

en-noun

blonde bombshell (plural blonde bombshells)

Derived from bombshell (“a very attractive woman”).

(slang) A very attractive woman with blonde or yellow hair.

(slang) A stereotypical blonde woman who is very assertive and sensual but unintelligent.


Day the Music Died

American Pie (song)
Don McLean
The Day the Music Died

Coined in 1971 by singer-songwriter Don McLean, in his song "American Pie".

(historical) February 3rd, 1959, the day when American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.


He too is filling the pocket, darting in the space between the 808 and the glittering melody, closing the distance with his short lines and ad libs.

2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, Viking, page 129:

A synthesized drum or bass sound that emulates the sound of a Roland TR-808.

(music, chiefly hip-hop) A bassline or sub-bassline, or the sound used for such.


tongue drum

(music) A drum made from an otherwise closed steel container with cuts made into the top in the shape of tongues. Striking a "tongue" produces tones.


harsh noise

(music) A subgenre of noise music characterized by extreme levels of distortion, abrasive textures and a lack of harmonics.


floating wind turbine

floating wind turbine (plural floating wind turbines)

An offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where fixed-foundation turbines are not feasible.


home key

(music) The tonic or keynote of a piece.


blorange

/ˈblɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈblɒɹənd͡ʒ/

Coordinate term: bronde

I couldn't afford to have anybody else color my hair anymore, so I started doing it myself and it became various shades of blond and orange. Blorange, as they call it. It was pretty bad.

(informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color.


bitcrusher

(music) Alternative spelling of bit crusher


coal merchant

It would seem that the Speedwell was built during the first half of 1830, for the Monmouthshire Merlin of June 12, 1830, said: "Mr. Prothero, one of the most extensive coal merchants in that district, intends hauling his coal to Newport with two engines, preparing for him at the Neath Abbey Iron Works."

1941 June, “Some Early Welsh-Built Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 247:

Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.

1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

(dated) A person who deals in coal, either on a large scale or in a particular locality, where coal was weighed and bagged by the merchant, delivered to households and tipped into a coal bunker.


green hydrogen

renewable energy
renewable energy#English

hydrogen that is generated entirely with power from renewable energy and the electrolysis of water; which generates no carbon pollution.


light trespass

The encroachment of unwanted or unneeded light from a neighboring property or structure.


bro-country

In short, “Cruise” is bro-country: music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude.

2013 August 11, Jody Rosen, “Jody Rosen on the Rise of Bro-Country”, in New York Magazine:

Instead, bro country songs string together a formulaic subset of tropes about beer sipping, truck driving, sunglasses wearing, unpaved roads, and tanned girls in shorts, typically building to a predictable catchphrase singsong chorus.

2018, Bill C. Malone, Tracey E. W. Laird, Country Music USA, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 547:

(music) A subgenre of mainstream country music originating in the 2010s, influenced by hip hop, hard rock and electronica.


sepian

en-adjective

sepian (comparative more sepian, superlative most sepian)

more sepian (comparative)
most sepian (superlative)

He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness...

(archaic) Of the sepia, i.e. the cuttlefish.


oriental blue

oriental blue:


federal yellow

(dated, US) A shade of yellow used in US government vehicles and school buses, intended to be noticed quickly.


narrow-cut

(aviation, petrochemistry, of jet fuel) Composed of moderately-heavy hydrocarbons with boiling points in the kerosene range, without a significant proportion of lighter, gasoline-type hydrocarbons; Jet A is an example of a fuel of this type.


wide-cut

(aviation, petrochemistry, of jet fuel) Composed of a mixture of hydrocarbons with a wide range of boiling points, including both moderately-heavy, higher-boiling kerosene-type molecules and lighter, lower-boiling, more-volatile gasoline-type molecules; Jet B or JP-4 is a fuel of this type.


Pyrocene

From pyro- + -cene, coined by American academic Stephen J. Pyne in 2016.

coin

Those images of fire on fire are the raw footage of a planetary phase change, what might end up as a geologic era we could call the Pyrocene. They will continue until, as Shakespeare put it, they “consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

[2016 May 16, Stephen J. Pyne, “Welcome to the Pyrocene”, in Slate, →ISSN:

Instead of ice sheets, glaciers and periglacial environments adjacent to the ice, a Pyrocene manifests itself with fire-informed biotas, fire-starved biotas, hot spots where fire is the dominant energy source, peripyric landscapes where humans equipped with pyrotechnologies have reshaped the scene, and of course a warming atmosphere and unhinged climate that passes over the planet.

2019 November 20, Stephen J. Pyne, “The planet is burning”, in Aeon:

The supercharged blazes of the Pyrocene are putting millions upon millions of people around the world directly at risk, and even larger populations indirectly at risk with smoke.

2020 January 3, Matt Simon, “Australia Is Blazing Into the Pyrocene—the Age of Fire”, in Wired:

But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive.

2021 August 28, Graham Lawton, “The dawn of the pyrocene”, in New Scientist, page 24:

The insights gained by such research will be essential to manage animal populations in the Pyrocene.

2021 November, Dale G. Nimmo, Alexandra J. R. Carthey, Chris J. Jolly, Daniel T. Blumstein, “Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of the megafire”, in Global Change Biology, volume 27, number 22:

The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.


pocket symphony

en-noun

pocket symphony (plural pocket symphonies)

Popularized by English journalist Derek Taylor, meaning “miniature version” of a symphony.

The changes of orchestration and acoustic space from section to section serve to take the listener into new sonic realms every thirty seconds or so, which may be one reason Wilson dubbed this song [Good Vibrations] his “pocket symphony”:[…]

2010, Virgil Moorefield, The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(music) A song with some characteristics of a symphony.


leek-green

en-adj

leek-green (comparative more leek-green, superlative most leek-green)

more leek-green (comparative)
most leek-green (superlative)

Oat crops are for the most part leek-green and promising well; some of the brown oats are whitening to harvest, and on some farms (outlying) are in stook.

1927, The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, page 4, column 3:

leek-green:

Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek.


cowpiss

Inherited from Middle English cowpisse; equivalent to cow + piss.

Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail.

1964, William Humphrey, “Sam Ordway’s Revenge”, in The Ordways, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1965, →LCCN, page 249:

‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t. I would have told you what it was. We took it from a sick cow to give to the veterinarian for urinalysis.’ Brendan, gasping ‘cowpiss’, ran outraged at full speed the few hundred yards outside and down the side of the mountain to throw himself in the freezing waters of Loch Dan.

1982, Stan Davies, “Shed a Tear for Brendan”, in E. H. Mikhail, editor, Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, volume 2, →ISBN, page 294:

Smell like every barn in the world. Hay, mud, cowpiss.

1982, John Olive, Clara’s Play, Samuel French, Inc., published 1984, page 38:

And when the hopeful women came near, the farmers raised up crop-sprayers, and covered them in cowpiss.

1983 July 30, Alex Hamilton, “The stamp of individuality”, in The Guardian, page 6:

cows rub shoulders against their stalls / chains rattling the night / there’s wheezing everywhere, the swish of tails / the devil, riding cowpiss manure, keeps watch

1985, Daniël Daen, “The Prodigal Son”, in Rod Jellema, transl., Country Fair: Poems from Friesland since 1945, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Kampen: Catalogus Uitgeversmaatschappij J. H. Kok, →ISBN, page 173:

Petey was pretty sure it was mostly straw with a little grass plus maybe oregano and cowpiss mixed in or something.

1986, Frederick Busch, Sometimes I Live in the Country, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, →ISBN, page 5:

Grab yourself a cold Lone Star longneck. Pop the top, take a swig, swish it around your mouth, savor the unique flavor. You’re enjoying the National Beer of Texas. Tastes like cowpiss cause it is cowpiss.

1986 October 10, “Naked Texan Meets Benito Mussolini”, in Catalyst, volume 20, number 4, Colorado Springs, Colo., page 18:

Rusi, nodding, was eating the froglegs happily enough — but he, of course, had drunk cowpiss just as willingly during our navjote.

1988, Boman Desai, “Froglegs”, in The Memory of Elephants, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 178:

[…]the virtues of drinking ‘cowpiss’ as an expurgative[…]

1990, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, page 153:

“Hang onto the boat,” Joe called back, and ran up the steep, stony path to where he’d parked, and there it was, clean as cowpiss, his red Chevy pickup hunkered down on four flats, with the valve stems lying around on the ground where someone’d dropped them.

1990, Vance Bourjaily, Old Soldier, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, Inc., →ISBN, page 148:

He picked up Vince’s abandoned Guinness and took a swig. “Jesus, that’s real cowpiss, isn’t it?[…]”

1992 July, Bridget McKenna, “A Little Night Music”, in Amazing Stories, volume LXVII, number 4 (whole 572), page 36:

“Esoteric? Don’t be talking, man. It’s plain as cowpiss. Half the world’s problems would go away if we all accepted God and, having accepted Him, admitted that we’d been looking for Him all along.”

1997, Roger Boylan, Killoyle, Dalkey Archive Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66:

They flipped through a Penthouse that Brandon had been carrying in his backpack as the mosquitoes buzzed around the muddy herd of cattle. Bugs skimmed across the murky water. They watched the sun set over the distant treeline in shining streaks of orange as cowpiss splashes sounded from behind them, and in the calming air of the dusk they relaxed silently as their sweat evaporated into the fading light.

2000, John McManus, “June 1989”, in Stop Breakin Down, New York, N.Y.: Picador USA, →ISBN, page 85:

Shadow-flit, / Ink-gleam and quill-shine, late now in the day / I need their likes, freshets and rivulets / Starting from nowhere, capillaries of joy / Frittered and flittering like the scimitar / Of cowpiss in the wind that David Thomson / Flashed on my inner eye from the murky byre / Where he imagined himself a cow let out in spring / Smelling green weed, up to his hips in grass.

2001, Seamus Heaney, “Late in the Day”, in Electric Light, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 85:

“Hey—how about a snort of something good. Take a break from that cowpiss.” He brought a bottle of dark liquor from the cabin.

2003, Stuart Sheppard, Spindrift, Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 204:

The water had been warm as cowpiss in the shallows but as the line squished forward the chill made me want to either get in or get out.

2010, Roger Alan Skipper, Bone Dogs, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 48:

But we signed that cowpiss agreement and now the bastard’s suing me.

2014, George Szanto, Whatever Lola Wants, Brindle & Glass, →ISBN, page 221:

He himself felt rough / (Because this lady had a cowpiss scent)

2018, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, translation of original by Bertolt Brecht:


Cher effect

Named after the American singer Cher, who pioneered the effect in her 1998 hit Believe.

(music) A vocal effect produced when the entire lyrics of a song are processed through an auto-tune system.


radio edit

From radio + edit. First use appears c. 1982 in Billboard. See cite below.

The contest calls for a 15 to 17 minute mixed program (on cassette or 7½ ips quarter-track tape reel) of West End material only, and a five minute radio edit, marked with the DJ's name and address on the box.

July 3, 1982, Brian Chin, Billboard, page 40:

(music, radio) A modified version of a song, typically truncated or censored, intended to make it more suitable for airplay.


blue hydrogen

hydrogen generated from methane feedstock, typically from natural gas/petroleum gas, whose carbon residue, typically carbon dioxide, is captured, resulting in a low-carbon process.


kengirge

Borrowed from Tuvan кеңгирге (keñgirge). Compare Mongolian хэнгэрэг (xengereg) and several other cognates.

(music) A large, double-sided Tuvan drum, often made of goatskin and adorned with bells, introduced by Tibetan Buddhists.


amapiano

Borrowed from Zulu [Term?] (literally “the pianos”).

Coordinate term: kwaito

A new generation of amapiano artists reference kwaito not only in terms of its style but for what it meant to the culture, as the soundtrack to a generation breaking free from the oppression of Apartheid.

2021 September 22, Nkgopoleng Moloi, “Amapiano: inside South Africa’s sound of freedom”, in Dazed:

(music, South Africa) A house music subgenre that emerged in South Africa, often incorporating jazz piano and lounge music.


SoundCloud rap

After the audio streaming platform SoundCloud, where this genre initially spread.

It was just another unpredictable, bruising night in the world of SoundCloud rap — a swelling subgenre that takes its name from its creators’ preferred streaming service — which in the last year has become the most vital and disruptive new movement in hip-hop thanks to rebellious music, volcanic energy and occasional acts of malevolence.

2017 June 22, Jon Caramanica, “The Rowdy World of Rap’s New Underground”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

SoundCloud rap is characterized by its distinct sound, which is typically a mix of trap, lo-fi, electronic, and hip-hop music. Artists of this genre are also known for the short length of their songs, their popular social media presences, and sometimes their dangerous drug use, especially Xanax.

2018, Vanessa Oswald, Hip-Hop: A Cultural and Musical Revolution, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 80:

SoundCloud rap moved from the more hidden corners of the internet into mainstream consciousness in June 2017.

2018 December 6, Lauren Levy, “The Gatekeepers of SoundCloud Rap”, in Vulture:

More than a year on from when we actively began the research into SoundCloud rap, nearly four years on from my first impulse to make a programme about the subject, we've finally embarked on a wholly new project, […]

2021, Louis Theroux, Theroux The Keyhole: Diaries of a grounded documentary maker, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 67:

(music) A short-lived subgenre of hip hop mixing trap, lo-fi, and electronic music.


emo rap

There was an exciting proliferation of punk rap, mumble rap, emo rap and trap-influenced SoundCloud artists.

2020, Adrian Besley, Billie Eilish: From e-girl to Icon, Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:

Last fall, Bring Me the Horizon kicked off a new era of their band with a standalone single called "DiE4u", which sounded like a a heavy, metallic take on My Chemical Romance-style pop-punk mixed with the electronic flair of modern emo-rap.

2022 July 6, Eli Enis, “See Bring Me the Horizon's Horrifying, NSFW Video for New Song "sTraNgeRs"”, in Revolver:

(music) A fusion genre of hip hop and emo.


raeb

The sound of a male mallard's call, or a similar call of other duck species.


coal gap

(geology) The time period with few coal deposits from the Permian to middle Jurassic.


Uranium Club

(historical) A German project during World War II to research nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors.


EWE

en-noun

EWE (countable and uncountable, plural EWEs)

A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows.

2009, Peggy Lin Duthie, “The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings”, in Giselle Liza Anatol, editor, Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays, pages 45–46:

'EWE' (Epilogue-What Epilogue?) fics are similar to some AU stories in that they ignore the often-disliked epilogue of Rowling's Deathly Hallows, and instead create their own future of the Wizarding World.

2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 280:

Bringing beloved characters back to life is one of the most recurrent elements of EWE fics, […]

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 120

(Harry Potter fandom slang) Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.


unspoken water

Of the virtues of south-running water, and 'onspoken water' it is unnecessary to speak. It may be mentioned, however, that in this part of the country the use of unspoken water is not altogether discontinued, and that a south-running stream is still held in some reverence.

1839, The Book of Bon-accord: Or, a Guide to the City of Aberdeen, page 364:

What you do when anyone who is dying has to be cured, is to go and fetch unspoken water. You tak'a pitcher, and get some water that flows under a bridge ovver which living folk walk, and dead folk are borne.

If the shilling stuck to the bottom of the cog, the animal was under the spell of a witch, but the unspoken water had taken effect, and a cure would follow. My informant has been sent on an errand of this kind.

1898, Helen Wheeler Bassett, Frederick Starr, The International Folk-lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 ..., page 58:

When the young couple return from the spring, they fill their mouths with the unspoken water and try to spirt it on each other inside the door of the house.

1922, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: pt. IV, … 3d ed., rev. and enl. 1914, page 246:

It is in connection with unspoken water. This name was given to "water from under a bridge over which the living pass and the dead are carried , brought in the dawn or twilight to the house of a sick person without the bearers speaking either in going or returning."

1924, Charles Stewart Black, The Scots Magazine, page 175:

The old lady also claimed to be the last woman in Torry to have cured a child using 'unspoken water'. The infant was wasting away and the mother was convinced it was a fairy changeling or had been otherwise cursed by the fairies.

2010, Geoff Holder, Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen, The History Press, →ISBN:

Those would be the bottles of unspoken water he had heard about, water taken from beneath a bridge over which the living walk and the dead are carried, brought to the house at twilight or dawn without the bringer ever saying a word ...

2013, Robert Crichton, The Camerons: A Novel, Sarah Crichton Books, →ISBN:

Water collected by someone who remains silent, particularly from under a bridge which leads to a cemetery (though in some folkloric practices, from a well or spring instead), believed to have magical curative properties.


atomic gardening

The exposure of plants to radioactive sources, typically cobalt-60, in order to generate mutations that may prove to have useful properties.


radiogenome

The genome of genes affected by radiation


in the pocket

Throughout The Late, Late Show, Staton is right on the money (or right in the pocket, as musicians say)...

2010, Will Friedwald, “Dakota Staton”, in A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, page 448:

I've never thought that the groove was the beat; I always saw it as the space between the beats. I believe that's where the phrase "in the pocket" originated.

2013, Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business, page 229:

Musicians who play funk and Latin tunes refer to the groove as the sense of being "in the pocket," while jazz players refer to the groove as the sense that a song is really "cooking" or "swinging"... Historically speaking, the term pocket originated in the middle of the previous century, when a strong backbeat (the snare drum striking on beats 2 and 4) became predominant in popular music... Many people feel that the question is not so much what the pocket is as much as how you know when you're in it; I guarantee that you'll know it when you feel it, because the music feels as though it's playing itself. It feels as though everything has merged together, with all the rhythmic parts being played by one instrument.

2016, Bobby Owsinski, The Music Producer's Handbook, 2nd edition:

Use his approach for both songs to keep your rhythms in the pocket. You needn't be rigid; some stretching of the phrase is absolutely allowable for the sake of meaning. For the most part, however, ride the driving pulsations of the accompaniment with an equally grooving vocal approach.

2019, Joseph Church, Rock in the Musical Theatre, page 173:

...Iyer argues that the backbeat in much postwar African-American popular music is seldom precisely on the beat: it is slightly delayed, lending it a more 'laid back' feel. Again, as with swing, playing the backbeat 'in the pocket'—just slightly behind the beat—does not disrupt the regularity of the beat so much as demand that we hear (and feel) the rhythm in a more subtle and integrated way...

2020, Paul Thberge, “Click/Beat/Body: Thoughts on the Materiality of Time and Tempo”, in The Auditory Culture Reader, page 344:

Most musicians who play classical music usually play too "stiff" (rigidly) to perform on popular music recordings. All forms of popular music require musicians to feel the groove and to play in the pocket (playing within the feel of the rhythm section).

2021, Michael Zager, Music Production, page 97:

Hell yes, use that take. She was in the pocket.

(music slang) Alternative form of in the zone, playing perfectly in time, perfectly in sync with others, or with a perfect groove.


Cemb.

Borrowed from Italian cembalo (“harpsichord”).

Abbreviation of harpsichord.

(music, always capitalized, used in musical notation to indicate staffs to be played with harpsichord)


hard-driving

en-adj

hard-driving (comparative more hard-driving, superlative most hard-driving)

more hard-driving (comparative)
most hard-driving (superlative)

The heavy metal band Gods of Fire struggled trying to write a hard-driving song about potato pancakes for their 2009 album "Hanukkah Gone Metal."

(Can we date this quote?), Stephanie Simon, Ann Zimmerman, The Wall Street Journal, volume Hanukkah Boosters Light a Fire Under Holiday:

(music) Having a strong, fast-paced beat.


unsingably

an unsingably high note


blackened crust

crust punk music with black metal influences


guitalele

(music) A musical instrument that is a hybrid between a small guitar and a ukulele.


guitarmony

The best thing to do is this: get a variable speed tape recorder. Slow down your favorite solos. Play along with them slowly. The pitch will be lower but don't worry about that - match the pace and the rhythm and think of it as a Guitarmony.

2003 November 21, Todd LaRoc, “The need for speed”, in alt.guitar.beginner (Usenet):

Grooved-out guitarmonies, blustering syncopations from two of indie rock's better drummers, and a subtle sense of humor on tracks like "Doing Research For An Autobiography" are the main attraction, and fans of either band should be able to spot their heroes under the surface.

Starting in the late '60s as the Sweetshop, they nicked from Jeff Lynne-era Move (whose "Do Ya" was a template), but their layered vocals, clever guitarmonies, and feathered hairstyles influenced Queen and Def Leppard, among many others.

(music) A harmonised melody played on guitar.


sul tasto

Borrowed from Italian sul tasto (“on the fingerboard”).

bor+

(music, chiefly violin) Bowed near the fingerboard for the duration of a passage


wax point

(petrochemistry) The temperature below which a hydrocarbon fuel such as kerosene ceases to flow freely due to components of the fuel freezing into solid waxes.


tetratonic

The two Creek Indian "Duck Dance Songs" from the north- eastern United States illustrate the use of a tetratonic scale, A, C, D, E ( Example 5a ), and a pentatonic scale, A, C, D, E, G ( Example 5b ).

1976, Bruno Nettl, Helen Myers, Folk Music in the United States, page 38:

Pentatony can also come about through the simple complement and melodic development of the tetratonic melodic nucleus.

1994, János Kárpáti, Bartók's Chamber Music, page 111:

This four-note pattern is called a tetratonic, or also sometimes referred to as a melodic structures (by saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, and others). […] This is powerful because applying this tetratonic formula R235 or R345, you have something that works(!) to play on every chord change and on every beat.

2015, Andy McWain, Jazz Practice Ideas with Your Real Book:

(music) Made of four different musical notes.

Of course such tetratonic music is capable of powerful expression in its own particular mood but there has apparently been no attempt to evolve form as such.

1974, I. E. N. Chauhan, Ethnomusicology-tribal Music: The Music of Kinnaur, page 20:

Beyond these areas Sasak music largely diverges from pélog and slendro tonality, and there are a number of tetratonic forms — in compositions for gamelan beleq and kamput, for example.

2006, David D. Harnish, Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, And Cultural Politics, page 232:

Tetratonic music was noted as common in Polynesia and Melanesia.

2020, Zhengbing Hu, Sergey Petoukhov, Matthew He, Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education III, page 197:

(music) Pertaining to or using a tetratonic scale.


black MIDI

So called because of the black (note-heavy) appearance of such compositions when displayed in staff notation.


candy pink

en-noun

candy pink (countable and uncountable, plural candy pinks)

candy pink:


alboka

From Basque alboka, from Arabic الْبُوق (al-būq, “the trumpet”).

(music) A Basque single-reed woodwind instrument having two small-diameter melody pipes with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn.


dark night

dark night of the soul
dark night of the soul#English

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, night.


bomb material

Material that is good for making nuclear bombs: e.g., certain isotopes of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.


cobalt bomb

A nuclear bomb that includes cobalt, which will absorb neutrons and become radioactive cobalt-60.


mini hi-fi system

mini hi-fi system (plural mini hi-fi systems)

An electronic equipment that generally include a CD player, AM/FM radio and an integrated amplifier and two identical speakers. Used to play recorded sound, especially music.


utai

Borrowed from Japanese 謡 (うたい, utai), eventually related to うたう (utau, “to sing”) and うた (uta, “song”).

The singing that accompanies noh (classical Japanese drama).


sansula

A musical instrument consisting of a kalimba mounted on the head of a drum.


bunker fuel

bunker fuel (usually uncountable, plural bunker fuels)

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering, petrochemistry, maritime) A type of extremely viscous, heavy fuel oil primarily used by large oceangoing ships.


bunker oil

bunker oil (usually uncountable, plural bunker oils)

(mechanical engineering, petrochemistry, maritime) Synonym of bunker fuel.


gigalightyear

(astronomy) A unit of a billion light years.


kilolightyear

(astronomy, physics) A unit of a thousand light years.


megalight-year

(astronomy, physics) A unit of a million lightyears.


autoparody

This was exactly why, for him, the autoparody became her inescapable prison. Above all, this EuroBrazilian artist had, and continued to have, a defining impact within Brazil's mainstream sense of selfhood, so much so that by the late[…]

2015 August 26, Cristina F. Rosa, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation, Springer, →ISBN:

1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody. Consciously or not, Bruckner reuses an imitative sequence from the Kyrie of Palestrina's Mass in his wellknown setting (ca. 1886) of the Gradual Christus[…]

2015 June 24, Chester L. Alwes, A History of Western Choral Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

As Osolsobě observes, parody was both a sign of reputation and a tool with which to achieve it, with eighteenth- century French authors of operas often creating parodies of their own works (autoparodies): parodies not only promote the[…]

2022, Christopher R. Wilson, Mervyn Cooke, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 776:

(literature, art, music) A parody of one's own work.


tech house

(music) A subgenre of house music that combines stylistic features of techno with house.


damenization

From the first syllables da, me, ni + -ization.

(music, historical) A singing system resembling solfeggio, developed by German composer and tenor Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), and using the syllables da, me, ni, po, tu, la, be, to.


funeral doom

(music) An extreme subgenre of heavy metal music influenced by funeral dirges and played at a very slow tempo.


kick drum

(music) A relatively small bass drum forming part of a drum kit and struck with a beater attached to a pedal.


sompoton

(music) A woodwind instrument made of bamboo, used by indigenous people in Borneo.


hot particle

A tiny piece of radioactive material that can become lodged in living tissue.


fermium gap

(nuclear physics) The phenomenon that elements beyond fermium cannot be synthesized by neutron bombardment, due to the very short spontaneous fission half-life of fermium-258.


Aeoline

(music) A string stop on an organ with a very soft tone.


Bombarde

(music) A powerful, brassy reed stop on an organ of 8', 16' or 32'.


Trompette Militaire

(music) A powerful, solo reed stop on an organ with a piercing, brassy tone.


Contra Bourdon

(music) A flute stop on an organ, almost always of 32', characterized by a very low, dark tone.


flute stop

(music) An organ stop having the tone of a flute instrument.


string stop

(music) An organ stop having the tone of a string instrument.


block flute

Calque of German Blockflöte (“block flute”), so named for Blockflöte (“recorder”).

cal

(music) A flute stop on an organ of 4' or 2' that is imitative of a recorder.


baroque pitch

en-noun

baroque pitch (usually uncountable, plural baroque pitches)

(music) A reference tuning pitch intended to imitate those used in the baroque period; usually using the standard of A415, but sometimes as low as A392.


Bird Whistle

(music) An organ stop that is imitative of warbling birds, consisting of two or more small pipes with one end in water or a light oil.


chocolate black

The Zebra moray is chocolate black with vertical white stripes.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72:


Lahaina Noon

An occurrence in the tropics where the sun stands directly above the ground, leaving shadows directly below the objects casting them.


khushtar

(music) A bowed stringed instrument from the Uyghur Region of China, having four strings in four courses.


lancaran

(music) In gamelan music, a cycle of 16 beats in the sequence TWTN TPTN TPTN TPTG, where T indicates the strike of the ketuk, P the kempul, N the kenong, G the simultaneous gong and kenong, and W the wela, the pause where the kempul is omitted.


T-pop

From T- (“Thai”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.


zombie fire

A wildfire that burns underground throughout the winter and reemerges during the fire season.


TTB

1976, Miriam Gideon, Spiritual madrigals: for male voices (T.T.B.) with viola, cello and bassoon:

I accepted and set about creating a program of songs that I transcribed and arranged for TTB

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 78:


yong bell

From Learned borrowing from Mandarin 鏞／镛 (yōng) + bell.

compound

A type of large, bronze bell originating in ancient China, played as a musical instrument to indicate the beat.


dirty blonde

en-adj

dirty blonde (comparative more dirty blonde, superlative most dirty blonde)

more dirty blonde (comparative)
most dirty blonde (superlative)

dirty blond:

Of a dark blonde color bordering on light brown.


dirty blonde

en-noun

dirty blonde (countable and uncountable, plural dirty blondes)

A dark shade of blonde, bordering on light brown.


A variant of the British 999, originally selected as an appropriate number for rotary-dial telephones and adapted in New Zealand because the formatting on its pulse-dial system made 1 equivalent to 9 as processed by its British-made telecommunications equipment.

When you call 111 in New Zealand, the Spark operator usually answers the phone with "111 Emergency. Do you require fire, ambulance, or police?"

The telephone number for emergency services in New Zealand and Nauru.


zimrah

bor

Hebrew זִמְרָה

A table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night.


The telephone number for emergency services in Mongolia.


table song

Of unknown authorship, it seems that it was sung as a Sabbath table-song and a festival table-song for holidays in general.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 122:

A hymn sung communally by Ashkenazi Jews at the dinner-table.


Aretinian

Named after the Italian music theorist Guido of Arezzo (c. 991–992 – after 1033), who introduced it, modeled after Arretine.

(music) Of or relating to the solfège sight singing system.


bongo flava

Coordinate term: Zenji flava

(Before temporarily closing his studio in 2004, Master J had two bongo flava producers working for him and one producer who worked with other genres of popular music.)

2012, Eric Charry, Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World, page 195:

A genre of Tanzanian music that arose in the 1990s, combining traditional styles with American hip-hop, reggae, etc.


Zenji flava

Coordinate term: bongo flava


masenqo

a single-stringed bowed lute commonly used by Ethiopian azmaris.


melodeclamation

en-noun

melodeclamation (countable and uncountable, plural melodeclamations)

One of these is found in the salon song for voice and piano, which is suddenly invaded by melodeclamations and mythological themes. One of the most prominent contributors here was Vladimir Rebikov (1866௅1920), whose piano cycles[…]

2016 June 22, Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou, George Vlastos, Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 22:

When combined with dialogue we get a kind of melodeclamation, and then both dialogue and music are faced with the demands generally presented to melodeclamation, that is to say, coincidence of rhythm, and their artistic symbiosis,[…]

2010 November 4, Mervyn Cooke, The Hollywood Film Music Reader, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 44:

Then she found the sheet music for melodeclamation that she had taken from Russia , and that occasioned an explanation of the beauties of Russian diction . " It's a euphonious language — consonant , vowel , consonant , vowel — and I[…]

1996, John N. Kotre, Outliving the Self: How We Live on in Future Generations, John Kotre, →ISBN, page 129:

(historical, music) The practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.


alt.rapper

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-alt.rapper.wav

Blend of alt.rap + rapper. Equivalent to alt.rap + -er.

Been here since early 98, so I guess I'm a "3rd generation" alt.rapper, but I did make like 4 posts in like March 97 under a different online service when I first used the internet... it was a few posts about mariah carrey or something like that.

1999 December 3, Cal Worthington, “alt.rap... history??”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Instead of the fact that I惴 not reading very long in this group, I惴 sure that one member of alt.rap will either win or come to the final round... I don愒 think that all the other rappers are as dope as the ones in here... But I bet that everyone of the alt.rappers will come very far in this battle. And I think one alt.rapper will support another alt.rapper, even if he doens愒 like him, right?

2001 May 9, Leonie, “Ramblin' About Alt.Rap And How To Improve It”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Maybe I'm not even gonna vote.
Vadik ~ got an alt.rapper in his crosshairs...and no, it's not you

2001 December 27, Vadik, “[NYT] Sir vs. Wattz (VOTE NOW!)”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

I have to admit I been a diehard alt.rapper since '97 but lately I've been busy, and I'm guilty of merging with the rmhh community as well.

2004 March 17, Augi, “What's going on with this group?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

LENGTH OF TIME POSTING IN RMHH: I think around 2000 or so... I was lurking for ages before that - more of an alt.rapper then...

2005 May 22, A to the L, “time for a RMHH survey”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.rap.


rmhher

(Internet slang) Alternative letter-case form of RMHHer.


RMHHer

As far as I know, Jeremy Somers is the only RMHHer who works for Raw Shack.

1998 July 19, Andrew Ryall, “blackstar...how overrated are they?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

this is 4 (see the clever usage of 4 instead of spelling out the word f-o-r-) all the kkk rmhher's up in hea lately.

2000 August 25, CoJack, “This is 4 all our new kkk rmhher's in hea lately”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

I'm female {4 all you rmhher's knowledge}
Hear me roar

2000 November 9, Lovelyblaqgyrl, “OTP: People that know nothing about real hip hop”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

I thought Keith sued to have all of the Tuff City releases scuttled though. An RMHHer sent me cassette dubs of at least one of the albums (mostly radio freestyles as I recall) but I was never able to find them in stores anywhere.

2001 June 21, Steve 'Flash' Juon, “JUST FOR FLASH - Ultramagnetic All-Star Rap MP3”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

> >If you can find me and Mark an MPC to buy
>
> is that your boyfriend or something?
> I've heard you talk about him
Thats veteran RMHHer Mark RED BEARD Murray to you young whippersnapper.

2003 February 4, BSE, “RMHH beat competition”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Wow. A former rmhher in congress. Rmhh is really the bomb. Published authors, artists, politicians, ph.d's etc have all graced this forum.

2011 November 4, mochaspresso, “Pizon is running for Congress”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop.


semiquaver rest

semiquaver rest (plural semiquaver rests)

(music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to half a quaver rest

(music) The corresponding symbol used in musical notation.


Celtic harp

(music) A triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe.


guitalin

(music) A musical instrument that is a hybrid between a banjo and a mandolin (despite its name).


round-wound

(music, of guitar strings) With a round outer winding wire.


flat-wound

(music, of guitar strings) With a flat outer winding wire.


DI unit

(music) A unit that converts a high impedance signal to a low impedance signal to reduce interference, used to connect an instrument to a mixing console.


house band

For years, this 30-plus crew of session musicians, the house band at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios, were crack accompanists.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 308:

(music) A band that is regularly stationed at an establishment (restaurant, television studio, etc.)


fire regime

The general pattern of natural fire occurrence in a particular ecosystem over an extended period of time, with regards to such factors as frequency, intensity, size, season, severity, etc.


degung

(music) A form of Sundanese gamelan music using a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.


ragini

(music) The feminine counterpart of a raga in Indian music.


chord change

An unexpected chord change is thought to trigger a rush of dopamine in the brain similar to that created by food and sex.

2017 August 24, Victoria Allen, “The secret to the perfect pop song”, in Daily Mail:

(music) A change in the harmony of a piece of music, as it progresses, from one chord to another.


magnetic mirror

magnetic mirror (plural magnetic mirrors)

(physics) A magnetic confinement device used in fusion power to trap high-temperature plasma using magnetic fields.


R&M

(oil industry) Initialism of refining and marketing.


IOT

(music, MIDI) Initialism of in-out-through.


ASMRotica

When it comes to traditional ASMR, every view, take or comment comes with the same question: is this sexual? Should I be turned on? ASMRotica makes it easy: yes.

2015 August 15, Kathryn Lindsay, “Inside the Sensual World of ASMRotica”, in VICE:

However, this couldn't be further from the truth, and ASMRotica makes up only a tiny piece of the ASMR community.

2019 February 12, Mark Andrew Choi, “Sucks to your ASMR”, in The Arrow, Westlake High School, Westlake, CA, page 16:

Where mainstream ASMRtists don’t appreciate comments that refer to sexuality in any way, the ASMRotica subgenre welcomes these kind of viewers (Lindsay 2015: online).

2019, Maria Isabel Bode, "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) as a marketing tool: An examination of the online phenomenon’s potential in the promotion mix of slow tourism destinations", thesis submitted to The City University of Applied Sciences, page 25

(neologism) A subgenre of ASMR content intended to be sexually stimulating or appealing.


Marxophone

From Marx + -o- + -phone, after Henry Charles Marx (1875–1947), who patented the design of its hammer mechanism.

(music) A fretless zither played via a system of metal hammers.