Music Theory And Composition
47 entries in the Music Theory And Composition compendium.
Accidental (music)Symbols indicating pitch alteration in musical notation.Aleatoric musicMusic where chance determines some element of composition or performance.AtonalityMusic lacking a tonal center, emerging in the early 20th century.Bar (music)Segment of music bounded by bar lines, indicating recurring beats.CadenceA phrase-ending progression creating resolution or suspension.Chord (music)A chord is the simultaneous sound of two or more notes.Chord progressionSuccession of chords forming the harmonic foundation of Western music.Chromatic scaleA twelve-pitch scale with semitone intervals, used in Western music.Circle of fifthsA cycle of perfect fifths organizing pitch classes and key signatures.ClefSymbols that assign pitch to staff lines and spaces.Common practice periodEra when tonal harmony was the sole compositional system.Consonance and dissonanceConcepts defining musical stability and tension through mutual exclusion.Harmony (music)Harmony combines sounds to create musical ideas.OratorioSacred musical drama with minimal staging, often performed in concert form.OrchestrationThe art of assigning instruments to musical parts.OvertureInstrumental opening to stage works and concert pieces.Prelude (music)A short, improvisatory musical piece, often introductory or standalone.Rhapsody (music)A free-flowing, episodic one-movement musical form.RhythmRegular recurrence of strong and weak elements in time.SerialismA method of composition using ordered series of musical elements.Suite (music)Ordered set of dance pieces, central to Baroque music.Symphonic poemOrchestral music evoking non-musical sources in one movement.Sheet musicWritten musical notation enabling performance and study of music.Staff (music)A set of lines and spaces representing musical pitch and time.Tala (music)Tala is the rhythmic cycle foundational to Indian classical music.TempoTempo is the speed or pace of a musical composition.TimbreTimbre distinguishes sounds by source, even at same pitch and volume.Time signatureIndicates how many note values fit into each measure.TonalitySystem of musical organization centered on a tonic.TritoneA dissonant interval of three whole tones, historically called the devil in music.Twelve-tone techniqueA method ensuring equal use of all twelve chromatic notes.ÉtudeShort instrumental works designed to perfect a specific musical skill.4′33″A composition of silence, ambient sound, and musical indeterminacy.Adagio for StringsA string orchestra work from Barber's String Quartet, Op. 11.Adagio in G minorThe Adagio in G minor for strings and organ, commonly known as "Albinoni's Adagio," is a nAlso sprach ZarathustraTone poem by Richard Strauss inspired by Nietzsche's philosophical novel.Ambient 1: Music for AirportsFirst album released under the ambient music label.Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)Gounod's melody over Bach's prelude became a wedding and funeral staple.Ave Maria (Schubert)Schubert's song adapted into the widely known 'Ave Maria'.Ave verum corpus (Mozart)Ave verum corpus ("Hail, True Body"), K. 618, is a motet in D major by Wolfgang Amadeus MoBallades (Chopin)Four single-movement piano works by Frédéric Chopin.BaroqueA Western artistic style flourishing from the early 1600s to 1750s.Voicing (music)Voicing concerns the distribution and spacing of chord notes.Voice leadingLinear progression of melodic lines creating harmonies.Pitch (music)Pitch is the subjective perception of sound frequency.Range (music)The distance between lowest and highest pitch an instrument or voice can play.Register (music)Register defines pitch range and timbre in music.
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