harpejji

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

coinage

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

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

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

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

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

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

(music, neologism) An electrophonic string instrument.


dreamgaze

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(music) A mixture of dream pop and shoegaze.


B-reel

en-noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

1974, George Glenn, Super 8 Handbook, page 176

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

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

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


handpan

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

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

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

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


light engineering

Coordinate term: sound engineering

(film, television, theater) The technical discipline of the installation of lighting equipment and its utility on a set.


compound common time

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


kindie

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


piano-violin

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


Time Unit Box System

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


waltz time

waltz time (countable and uncountable, plural waltz times)

three-quarter time
three-quarter time#English


time-span reduction

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


curtain time

curtain time (countable and uncountable, plural curtain times)

(theater) The time at which a play or performance is scheduled to commence.


Hypoionian

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


mensural notation

mensural notation (countable and uncountable, plural mensural notations)

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


three-four time

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


quintuple meter

quintuple meter (countable and uncountable, plural quintuple meters)

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


two-four time

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

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


H-pop

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

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

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

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


murder ballad

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


pkhachich

Transliteration of Russian пхачич (pxačič).

transliteration

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

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


melodism

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


self-composed

en-adj

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

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

a self-composed soundtrack

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


front-of-house curtain

en-noun

front-of-house curtain (plural front-of-house curtains)


slowfox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


comic timing

(comedy) The use of intonation, rhythm, cadence, tempo, and pausing in order to guide the audience's laughter, which then guides the comedic narrative, and ultimately delivers the joke.


Anglican chant

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


pointing mark

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

com

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


P-pop

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


L-pop

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


Q-pop

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


M-pop

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


songwrite

en-verb

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

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


ABWH

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
w:Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

(music) Initialism of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe.


MLTR

Michael Learns to Rock
w:Michael Learns to Rock

(music) Initialism of Michael Learns to Rock.


disco-style

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


chromatization

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

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

(music) A transition toward chromatic atonality.


CAMUS

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

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


RMSM

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

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


RCAM

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

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


basic timing

en-noun

basic timing (countable and uncountable, plural basic timings)

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


regional Mexican

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


foodcore

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

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


theatre organ

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


pump organ

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


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


sub-bassline

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

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


surface noise

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


theory of musical equilibration

theory of musical equilibration (uncountable)

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


kleisma

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

der

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


perfect twelfth

en-noun

perfect twelfth (plural perfect twelfths)

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


microrhythm

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


LOG

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


SOAD

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


type beat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


raga rock

(music) Indian-influenced rock music genre.


walkdown

(music, especially bass) A harmonic line that lowers in pitch stepwise, typically connecting two or more chords.


hardvapour

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


straight cover

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