The Music Sound

A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video.

Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes.
The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration.
Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

CONTENTS:

The Music Sound
Indigenous Australian music
Indoor percussion ensemble
Industrial fashion
Industrial metal
Industrial music
Industrial musical
Industrial rock
Infest
Innu music
Instrument amplifier
Instrumental
Instrumental hip hop
Instrumental rock
Intelligent dance music
Intelligent drum and bass
Interactive music
Intermedio
Intermezzo
International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor
International Computer Music Conference
International Standard Musical Work Code
Interval
Introduction
Inuit music
Iroquois music
Italo disco
Jam session
Jangle pop
Japanoise
Jazz
Jazz band
Jazz blues
Jazz funeral
Jazz fusion
Jazz genres
Jazz guitar
Jazz piano
Jazz poetry
Jazz rap
Jazz royalty
Jazz standard
Jazz-funk
Jingle
Jug band
Jump blues
Jump-Up
Junglist
Karaoke
Kaval
Key
Keyboard instrument
Khene
Kiowa music
Korean music
Krautrock
Kwaito
Kwakiutl music
Lai
Lamellaphone
Lament
Language of the birds
Latin house
Latin jazz
Latin music in the United States
Latin percussion
Latin rap
Laude
Learning music by ear
Leitmotif
Les Six
Libretto
License
Lied
Lindy Hop
Lindy Hop moves
Line dance
Liquid funk
List of album covers containing nudity
List of albums
List of Asian folk music traditions
List of best-selling albums worldwide
List of classical music competitions
List of country genres
List of electronic music genres
List of EPs
List of European folk music traditions
List of famous operas
Music by continent
List of genres of hip hop
List of genres of music: A-F
List of genres of music: G-M
List of genres of music: N-R
List of genres of music: S-Z
List of genres of reggae
List of genres of the blues
List of hardcore punk genres
List of heavy metal genres
List of industrial music subgenres
List of jazz genres
List of metalcore genres
List of Middle Eastern and North African folk music traditions
List of music genres
List of music genres suffixed -core
List of musical forms
List of musical instruments
List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number
List of musical intervals
Musical movements
List of musical punk genres
List of national anthems
List of North, Central and South American folk music traditions
List of Oceanic and Australian folk music traditions
List of rock genres
List of string instruments
List of Sub-Saharan African folk music traditions
List of woodwind instruments
Live album
Lo-fi music
Loudness
Louisiana blues
Lounge music
Low Bap
Lowercase
Lullaby
Lute
Lute song
Lyre
Lyrics
Madchester
Madrigal
Madrigal comedy
Madrigal dinner
Madrigale spirituale
Madrigal (Trecento)
Mafioso rap
Male ranges
Gothcore
Mambo
Mandolin
Marching band
Marching percussion
Maroon music
Martial music
Mass
Math rock
Mathcore
Maxi single
Mazurca
Mbaqanga
M-Base
Medieval music
Medieval rock
Meditation music
Melodic death metal
Melodic hardcore
Melodic motion
Melodic music
Melody
Melody type
Membranophone
Memphis blues
Memphis rap
Memphis soul
Mensural notation
Merenrap
Metalcore
Metalhead
Metre
Mexican cumbia
Mezzo-soprano
Miami bass
Microhouse
Military band
Milonga
Minimal house
Minimal techno
Minimalism
Minimalist music
Minimalist trance
Minnesang
Minstrel show
Mixing console
Mobb Music
Mod Revival
Modal frame
Modal jazz
Modern musical symbols
Modern soul
Modernism
Modinha
Moog synthesizer
Lam
Mor lam sing
Mosh
Moshcore
Motet
Motown Sound
Movement
Mozarabic chant
Musica Popular Brasileira
MTV Video Music Awards
Musette de cour
Music
Music and movement
Music awards
Music cognition
Music competitions
Music disk
Music education
Music events
Music festival
Music genre
Music hardware
Music history
Music history of the United States
Music in professional wrestling
Music industry
Music information retrieval
Music journalism
Music lesson
Music licensing
Music loop
Music of Africa
Music of Australia
Music of Brasil
Music of Canada
Music of Europe
Music of immigrant communities in the United States
Music of Mesopotamia
Music of Mexico
Music of the trecento
American music
Music radio
Music recording sales certification
Music school
Music sequencer
Music technology
Music theory
Music therapy
Music venue
Music video
Music video game
Music workstation
Musica ficta
Musica reservata
Musical analysis
Musical box
Musical collective
Musical composition
Musical groups
Musical eras
Musical forms
Musical forms
Musical improvisation
Musical instruments
Musical instrument classification
Musical language
Musical mode
Musical notation
Musical techniques
Musical terminology
Musical theatre
Musical tuning
Musician
Musicology
Musique concrete
Nashville sound
National anthem
National Socialist black metal
Nationalism
Native American flute
Native American hip hop
Native American music
Navajo music
Nazi punk
Needle drop
Neo soul
Neo-classical metal
Neoclassicism
Neofolk
Neo Psychedelia
Neoromanticism
Nerdcore hip hop
Neurofunk
New Age music
New Complexity
New Flamenco
New jack swing
New Orleans blues
New Romantic
New Wave music
New wave of new wave
New Weird America
Nightclubs
No Wave
Noise music
Noise pop
Noise rock
Nonchord tone
Nonet
Nortec
Norteno
North American music
Northern soul
Note
Note value
Notes inégales
Novelty and fad dances
Novelty song
Nu-jazz
Nu metal
Nu skool breaks
Nu-NRG
Nursery rhyme
Oboe
Octet
Oi!
Old school hip hop
Oldschool jungle
Old-time music
One-hit wonder
Opera
Opera ballet
Opera buffa
Opera houses
Opera seria
Operas by genre
Operetta
Oratorio
Orchestra
Organ
Oriental metal
Origins of music genres
Origins of rock and roll
Origins of the blues
Ornament
Outlaw country
Overture
Paisley Underground
Pan flute
Partner dance
Payola
Percussion ensemble
Percussion instrument
Peyote song
P-Funk
Philadelphia soul
Photoplay music
Piano
Piano bar
Piano concerto
Piano history and musical performance
Piano quartet
Piano quintet
Piano rock
Piano sextet
Piano sonata
Piano trio
Piccolo
Pieces
Piedmont blues
Pinpeat
Pipe
Pipe organ
Pipes and drums
Pitch
Pitch of brass instruments
Plainsong
Player piano
Playground song
Political hip hop
Polka
Polka-mazurka
Polyphonic Era
Pop albums that have consistently appeared in top lists
Pop music
Pop punk
Pop rock
Popping
Pop-rap
Popular music
Posse cut
Post-grunge
Post-hardcore
Postminimalism
Post-modern Classicism
Postmodern music
Post-punk
Post-punk revival
Post-rock
Power ballad
Power metal
Power noise
Power pop
Power trio
Power violence
Precompositional
Prehistoric music
Prima pratica
Process music
Program music
Progressive bluegrass
Progressive electronic music
Progressive metal
Progressive music
Progressive rock
Progressive Southern Gospel
Promenade concert
Promo Only
Promotional single
Protest song
Protopunk
Psalms
Psybient
Psych folk
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic soul
Psychedelic trance
Psychobilly
Pub rock
Pub rock (UK)
Pueblo music
Pumpin’ house
Punk
Punk blues
Punk fashion
Punk rock
Punkabilly
Punta rock
Quartet
Queercore
Quiet storm
Quintet
Qur’an reading
Radio edit
Raga
Ragga
Raggacore
Raggare
Ragtime
Rapcore
Rapping
Rave music
Recapitulation
Recitative
Record chart
Record industry
Record label
Recording contract
Recoupment
Red Dirt
Refrain
Reggae
Remix
Remix album
Renaissance music
Rhapsode
Rhythm
R&B
Rhythm section
Riddim
Riot Grrrl
Ritual dance
Rock and roll
Rock band
Rock concert
Rock in Opposition
Rock music
Rockabilly
Rocker
Roman School
Romantic music
Roots of hip hop
Roots reggae
Roots revival
Roots rock
Round
Royal anthem
Drum rudiments
Rumba
Rumba Flamenca
Runaway hit
Sadcore
Salsa music
Sampler
Sampler album
Satz
Saxophone
Scale
School band
Schranz
Scramble band
Scratching
Screamo
Second Viennese School
Formal sections
Seikilos epitaph
Selling out
Sentence
Septet
Serialism
Set theory
Sevillanas
Sextet
Shape note
Sheet music
Shibuya-kei
Shoegazing
Siguiriyas
Simultaneity
Sinfonia
Sinfonia concertante
Singer
Singing
Singing school
Single
Singspiel
Sioux music
Siren
Sitar
Ska
Ska jazz
Skate punk
Skiffle
Skinheads
Slip-cueing
Slovenian-style polka
Sludge metal
Smooth jazz
Snap music
Soca music
Social dance
Social history of the piano
Soft rock
Software synthesizer
Sonatas
Sonata da Chiesa
Sonata form
Sonata forms
Sonata rondo form
Song
Song forms
Song structure (popular_music)
Songo-salsa
Songs by genre
Songs popular at sporting events
Songwriter
Sonorism
Sopanam
Sophomore album
Sopranist
Soprano
Soul blues
Soul jazz
Soul music
Sound module
Recorded music
Soundtrack
Soundtrack album
Southern gospel
Southern rap
Southern rock
Space rock
Spacesynth
Spank jazz
Spectral music
Speed metal
Speedcore
Spiritual
Split album
Square dance
Squeezebox
St. Louis blues
Stadium anthem
Stage piano
Stoner rock
Stradivarius
Straight edge
Streetpunk
Stride piano
String band
String instruments
String orchestra
String quartet
String quintet
String sextet
String trio
Strip club
Studio album
Styles of house music
Suicide song
Suite
Summer hit
Suomisaundi
Super Audio CD
Superclub
Supergroup
Surf music
Surf rock
Surrealism
Swamp blues
Swamp rock
Swede-core
Swing
Swing dance
Swing Era
Swing Revival
Swung note
Symphonic metal
Symphonic poem
Symphonic rock
Symphony
Synth rock
Synthesizer
Synthpop
Synthpunk
Tagelied
Tambourine
Tango
Tech house
Technical death metal
Techno music
Technoid
Tejano music
Television news music
Tenor
Terrorcore
Texas blues
Texture
The golden age of hip hop
Theme music
Third Stream
Third-wave of ska
Thrash metal
Thrashcore
Three-chord song
Timbre
Timeline of alternative rock
Timeline of heavy metal
Timeline of progressive rock
Timeline of punk rock
Timelines of music
Timpani
Tonal memory
Topical song
Tortured artist
Totalism
Trad jazz
Traditional bluegrass
Traditional pop music
Tramen
Trance fusion
Trance music
Trancestep
Transposing instrument
Triangle
Tribal house
Tribute album
Tribute band
Trip hop
Trombone
Troubadour
Trumpet
Tuba
Tubular bell
Tumbi
Turntablism
Twee pop
Twelve tone technique
Two Tone
Types of bagpipes
Ukulele
Underground gabber
Uplifting trance
Uptempo
Urban Folk
Urban jazz
Urban Pasifika
Varnam
Venetian polychoral style
Venetian School
Verdiales
Verse
VGM
Vibraphone
Computer and video game music
Video single
Viking metal
Villancico
Villanella
Viola
Viola concerto
Viola sonata
Violin
Violin concerto
Violin family
Violin sonata
Violoncello concerto
Virelai
Virtual band
Vocal house
Vocal range
Vocal trance
Vocalese
Vocoder
Vogue
Voice instrumental music
Walkaround
Waltz
War of the Romantics
Water organ
West Coast blues
West Coast hip hop
West Coast Swing
Western music (North America)
Western swing
Whale song
Whistle
Whistled language
Wild track
Wind instrument
Wind quintet
Wonky techno
Woodwind instrument
World music
World music market
Xylophone
Yuman music
Zither
Zoomusicology
4-beat
20th century classical music
A & R
Aboriginal rock
Absolute music
Abstract hip hop
Accompaniment
Accordion
Acid Brass
Acid house
Acid jazz
Acid rap
Acid rock
Acid techno
Acid trance
Acousmatic music
Acoustic guitar
Aerophone
Aesthetics of music
African American music
African hip hop
African reggae
Afro prog
Afrobeat
Afro-Cuban jazz
Afro-rock
Aggrotech
Air de cour
Album
Aleatoric music
Alegrías
All-women band
Alternative country
Alternative dance
Alternative hip hop
Alternative metal
Alternative rock
AltNuMet
Alto
Ambient house
Ambient industrial
Ambient music
Ambrosian chant
Amen break
American classical music
American folk music
American hip hop
American Indian music
American march music
American Music Award
American patriotic music
American pop
American popular music
American Primitivism
American rock
American styles of music
Analog modeling synthesizer
Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-rockers
Anatolian rock
Ancient music
Ancient Roman music
Andalusi nubah
Andalusian classical music
Anglican chant
Anglo-American music
Animal song
Answer song
Anthem
Anti-folk
Arab music
Arapaho music
Arch form
Arena
Arena rock
Argentine cumbia
Aria
Armenian chant
Ars antiqua
Ars nova
Ars subtilior
Art punk
Art rock
Articulation
Ashtorath
Asian American jazz
Asian music
A-side and B-side
Aspects of music
Atonality
Aubade
Audio file format
Audio engineering
Audio mixing
Audio programming language
Audio track
Aulos
Australian country music
Australian hardcore
Australian hip hop
Australian indie rock
Australian jazz
Australian rock
Authentic performance
Avant garde metal
Avant-garde jazz
Avant-progressive rock
Background music
Bagatelle
Bagpipes
Bakersfield sound
Balearic Beat
Ballad
Ballade
Ballet
Ballet (music)
Ballroom dance
Baltimore Club
Bamabounce
Band
Banjo
Bar form
Barbershop music
Barbiton
Barcarolle
Baritenor
Baritone
Baroque metal
Baroque music
Baroque orchestra
Baroque pop
Bass
Bass guitar
Bass run
Bass-baritone
Bassoon
Bassoon sonata
Bass-Pop
Bastard pop
Bay Area thrash metal
Beach music
Beat juggling
Beatboxing
Beatlesque
Beatmatching
Bebop
Bel canto
Bell
Benefit concert
Beneventan chant
Bhangra
Bhangragga
Bicinium
Big band
Binary form
Bird song
Bitpop
Black metal
Blackened death metal
Block chord
Bluegrass music
Blues
Blues ballad
Blues-rock
Bomba
Boogaloo
Bootleg recording
Border ballad
Bounce music
Bouncy techno
Bouzouki
Bowed instruments
Boxed set
Boy band
Brass band
Brass instrument
Didactics
See also
References
Virtual band
Brazilian funk
Break
Breakbeat
Breakbeat hardcore
Breakcore
Breakdance
Bridge
Bright disco
Brit Award
British blues
British Invasion
Britpop
Broadside
Brokenbeat
Brothel creeper
Bubblegum pop
Buddhist chant
Buddhist music
Bulerias
Burgundian School
Byzantine music
Cabaret
Cadenza
Cajun music
Calypso jazz
Cantata
Canzone
Canzonetta
Carnatic music
Carol
Cartoon Punk
Cassette culture
Cassette single
Cast recording
Castanets
Catalog numbering systems for single records
CD single
Cello
Cello rock
Cello sonata
Celtic music
Celtic music in the United States
Censorship of music
Central American music
Chamber music
Change ringing
Chanson
Chant
Character piece
Charity record
Cheironomy
Chicago blues
Chicago house
Chicago soul
Chicano rap
Chicano rock
Chicken scratch
Children’s music
Children’s song
Chiptune
Choir
Chopped and screwed
Chorale cantata
Chorale concerto
Chorale monodony
Chorale motet
Chorale prelude
Chorale setting
Chord
Chord progression
Chordophone
Choreography
Christian alternative rock
Christian hardcore
Christian hip hop
Christian industrial
Christian metal
Christian punk
Christian rock
Christmas carol
Christmas music
Chromatic scale
Circle dance
Clarinet
Clarinet concerto
Clarinet sonata
Clarinet-violin-piano trio
Classic metal
Classical guitar
Classical music
Classical music era
Clownstep
Cock rock
Coda
Comic opera
Commercium song
Common practice period
Community band
Comparison of MIDI standards
Compilation album
Composer
Compositions by instrument
Computer music
Concept album
Concept rap
Concert
Concert band
Concert march
Concertato
Concertina
Concertino
Concertos
Concerto for Orchestra
Concerto grosso
Conclusion
Conductus
Conga
Conscious hip hop
Contemporary classical music
Cool jazz
Copyist
Cornet
Cornett
Corporate rock
Counterpoint
Country blues
Country music
Country rock
Country-rap
Cover band
Cover version
Cowpunk
Cprog
Criticism and sonata form
Crossover
Crossover thrash
Crunk
Crust punk
Crystallophones
Cubop
Cult band
Cumbia
Cumbia rap
Cumbia villera
Cumulative song
Curse of the ninth
Cutting
Cyclic form
Cymbal
Cymbalum
Czech bluegrass
Dances
Latin dance
Dance music
Dance-pop
Dance-punk
Dark ambient
Dark cabaret
Dark electro
Dark house
Darkcore
Darkstep
Darkwave
Dates of classical music eras
D-beat
Death grunt
Death metal
Deathcore
Deathcountry
Deathrock
Debut album
Deep house
Definition of music
Delta blues
Demo
Dene music
Detroit blues
Detroit techno
Development
Devotional song
Diatonic function
Diatonic set theory
Digital download
Digital hardcore
Digital synthesizer
Dirty South
Disc jockey
Disco
Disco orchestration
Discography
Discothèque
Diss song
Dixieland
DJ mixer
Doom metal
Doo-wop
Double album
Downtempo
Downtown music
Dream ballet
Dream pop
Drill ‘n bass
Drinking song
Dronology
Drum
Drum and Bass
Drum and bugle corps
Drum and bugle corps (classic)
Drum and bugle corps (modern)
Drum and lyre corps
Drum kit
Drum machine
Drum Major
Drumfunk
Drumline
DualDisc
Dub music
Dubstep
Duet
Duration
Dutch School
DVD single
Ear training
Early music
Earworm
East Coast hip hop
East Coast Swing
East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry
Eclecticism
Effects pedal
Effects unit
Electric guitar
Electric violin
Electro
Electro hop
Electro house
Electroacoustic music
Electroclash
Electrocrass
Electronic art music
Electronic body music
Electronic drum
Electronic music
Electronic musical instrument
Electronic organ
Electronica
Electropop
Emo
Emo Violence
End-blown flute
English Madrigal School
Enhanced CD
Epic metal
Ethnic music in the United States
Ethno jazz
Ethnomusicology
Euro disco
Eurodance
European classical music
European free jazz
Euro-Trance
Eurovision Song Contest
Exotica
Experimental music
Expressionism
Extended play
Extended technique
Extreme music
Fake music
Fandango
Fanfare
Farruca
Fashioncore
Female ranges
Festival seating
Field holler
Fife and drum blues
Fight song
Film score
Film soundtrack
Filmi
Flamenco
Florida death metal
Flute
Flute sonata
Flutina
Folk dance
Folk instrument
Folk metal
Folk music
Folk punk
Folk-rock
Folktronica
Football chant
Franco-country
Free improvisation
Free jazz
Free music
Free reed aerophone
Freestyle battle
Freestyle music
Freestyle rap
Freetekno
French house
Front ensemble
Frottola
Funk
Funk dance
Funk metal
Funkcore
Funky drummer
Furniture music
Futurepop
Gabber music
Gaelic punk
Galant
Galante music
Gallican chant
Gametrack
Gamewave
Gangsta rap
Garage
UK Garage
Garage punk
Garage rock
Gatefold
Gay anthem
Gendhing
Generative music
Genus
G-funk
Ghetto house
Ghettotech
Ghost Dance
Girl group
Glam metal
Glam punk
Glam rock
Glee Club
Glitch
GNU Free Documentation License
Go Go
Goa trance music
Gong
Gospel music
Goth
Gothabilly
Gothic metal
Gothic rock
Grammy Award
Grand Opera
Grand piano
Graphical timeline for classical composers
Greatest hits
Gregorian chant
Grime
Grindcore
Groove metal
Group dance
Grunge music
Guidonian hand
Guitar
Guitar tuning
Guitar/synthesizer
Hand drum
Happy hardcore
Hard bop
Hard dance
Hard house
Hard rock
Hard trance
Hardcore dancing
Hardcore Emo
Hardcore hip hop
Hardcore punk
Hardcore techno
Hardcore trance
Hardstep
Hardstyle
Harmonica
Harmonium
Harmony
Harp
Harpsichord concerto
Harsh noise
Heartland rock
Heavy metal fashion
Heavy metal music
Hindustani classical music
Hi-NRG
Hip hop dance
Hip hop fashion
Hip hop music
Hip hop production
Hip hop rivalries
Hip hop soul
Hip house
Hip life
Hipstep
History of hip hop music
History of music
History of sonata form
Horn
Horn section
Hornbostel-Sachs
Horripilation
Horror punk
House music
Human voice
Hymn
Hyphy
Idiophone
Illbient
Impressionist music
Incidental music
Index
Indian blues
Indian classical music
Indie
Indie pop
Indie rock
Indietronica
About the author
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