[{"n": "Accidental (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/accidental-music/", "s": "Symbols indicating pitch alteration in musical notation."}, {"n": "Aleatoric music", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/aleatoric-music/", "s": "Music where chance determines some element of composition or performance."}, {"n": "Atonality", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/atonality/", "s": "Music lacking a tonal center, emerging in the early 20th century."}, {"n": "Bar (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/bar-music/", "s": "Segment of music bounded by bar lines, indicating recurring beats."}, {"n": "Cadence", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/cadence/", "s": "A phrase-ending progression creating resolution or suspension."}, {"n": "Chord (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/chord-music/", "s": "A chord is the simultaneous sound of two or more notes."}, {"n": "Chord progression", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/chord-progression/", "s": "Succession of chords forming the harmonic foundation of Western music."}, {"n": "Chromatic scale", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/chromatic-scale/", "s": "A twelve-pitch scale with semitone intervals, used in Western music."}, {"n": "Circle of fifths", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/circle-of-fifths/", "s": "A cycle of perfect fifths organizing pitch classes and key signatures."}, {"n": "Clef", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/clef/", "s": "Symbols that assign pitch to staff lines and spaces."}, {"n": "Common practice period", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/common-practice-period/", "s": "Era when tonal harmony was the sole compositional system."}, {"n": "Consonance and dissonance", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/consonance-and-dissonance/", "s": "Concepts defining musical stability and tension through mutual exclusion."}, {"n": "Harmony (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/harmony-music/", "s": "Harmony combines sounds to create musical ideas."}, {"n": "Oratorio", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/oratorio/", "s": "Sacred musical drama with minimal staging, often performed in concert form."}, {"n": "Orchestration", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/orchestration/", "s": "The art of assigning instruments to musical parts."}, {"n": "Overture", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/overture/", "s": "Instrumental opening to stage works and concert pieces."}, {"n": "Prelude (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/prelude-music/", "s": "A short, improvisatory musical piece, often introductory or standalone."}, {"n": "Rhapsody (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/rhapsody-music/", "s": "A free-flowing, episodic one-movement musical form."}, {"n": "Rhythm", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/rhythm/", "s": "Regular recurrence of strong and weak elements in time."}, {"n": "Serialism", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/serialism/", "s": "A method of composition using ordered series of musical elements."}, {"n": "Suite (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/suite-music/", "s": "Ordered set of dance pieces, central to Baroque music."}, {"n": "Symphonic poem", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/symphonic-poem/", "s": "Orchestral music evoking non-musical sources in one movement."}, {"n": "Sheet music", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/sheet-music/", "s": "Written musical notation enabling performance and study of music."}, {"n": "Staff (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/staff-music/", "s": "A set of lines and spaces representing musical pitch and time."}, {"n": "Tala (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/tala-music/", "s": "Tala is the rhythmic cycle foundational to Indian classical music."}, {"n": "Tempo", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/tempo/", "s": "Tempo is the speed or pace of a musical composition."}, {"n": "Timbre", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/timbre/", "s": "Timbre distinguishes sounds by source, even at same pitch and volume."}, {"n": "Time signature", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/time-signature/", "s": "Indicates how many note values fit into each measure."}, {"n": "Tonality", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/tonality/", "s": "System of musical organization centered on a tonic."}, {"n": "Tritone", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/tritone/", "s": "A dissonant interval of three whole tones, historically called the devil in music."}, {"n": "Twelve-tone technique", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/twelve-tone-technique/", "s": "A method ensuring equal use of all twelve chromatic notes."}, {"n": "Étude", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/tude/", "s": "Short instrumental works designed to perfect a specific musical skill."}, {"n": "4′33″", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/4-33/", "s": "A composition of silence, ambient sound, and musical indeterminacy."}, {"n": "Adagio for Strings", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/adagio-for-strings/", "s": "A string orchestra work from Barber's String Quartet, Op. 11."}, {"n": "Adagio in G minor", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/adagio-in-g-minor/", "s": "The Adagio in G minor for strings and organ, commonly known as \"Albinoni's Adagio,\" is a neo-Baroque compositi"}, {"n": "Also sprach Zarathustra", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/also-sprach-zarathustra/", "s": "Tone poem by Richard Strauss inspired by Nietzsche's philosophical novel."}, {"n": "Ambient 1: Music for Airports", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/ambient-1-music-for-airports/", "s": "First album released under the ambient music label."}, {"n": "Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/ave-maria-bach-gounod/", "s": "Gounod's melody over Bach's prelude became a wedding and funeral staple."}, {"n": "Ave Maria (Schubert)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/ave-maria-schubert/", "s": "Schubert's song adapted into the widely known 'Ave Maria'."}, {"n": "Ave verum corpus (Mozart)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/ave-verum-corpus-mozart/", "s": "Ave verum corpus (\"Hail, True Body\"), K."}, {"n": "Ballades (Chopin)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/ballades-chopin/", "s": "Four single-movement piano works by Frédéric Chopin."}, {"n": "Baroque", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/baroque/", "s": "A Western artistic style flourishing from the early 1600s to 1750s."}, {"n": "Voicing (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/voicing-music/", "s": "Voicing concerns the distribution and spacing of chord notes."}, {"n": "Voice leading", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/voice-leading/", "s": "Linear progression of melodic lines creating harmonies."}, {"n": "Pitch (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/pitch-music/", "s": "Pitch is the subjective perception of sound frequency."}, {"n": "Range (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/range-music/", "s": "The distance between lowest and highest pitch an instrument or voice can play."}, {"n": "Register (music)", "u": "/e/music-theory-and-composition/register-music/", "s": "Register defines pitch range and timbre in music."}]