| 101 | Refering to the most basic knowledge about a subject: | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| ABRSM | The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music is an examinations board and registered charity based in London, UK, which provides examinations in music at centres around the world. | 🔗 | Music |
| Accent | An emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Alumni | Former pupils or students (plural noun). | 🔗 | |
| Ambitus | A Latin term literally meaning enclos[ur]e, and in Medieval Latin means the "range" of a melodic line | 🔗 | Music |
| Augmented triad | Root plus major third and a raised fifth | - | Music, Technique |
| Back-beat | This term usually refers to the snare drum being played on beats 2 and 4, thus creating a back-beat. (If in a 4/4 time signature). | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Break | A break from the main part of the song or piece. Also it is a signal to start a new section. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Cadence | Latin cadentia, "a falling". The end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of resolution. There must be a sense of closure.
A cadence is labeled more or less "weak" or "strong" depending on the impression of finality it gives. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Chord | Three or more simultaneous pitches constitute a chord | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Coda | A passage that brings a piece to an end | 🔗 | Music |
| Completion | The act or process of completing | 🔗 | |
| Concept Album | A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. | 🔗 | Music |
| Crooner | A male singer who sings slow, romantic songs in a soft, smooth voice | 🔗 | Music |
| Diatonic | In western music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depen | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Diminished triad | Root plus minor third and a flatted fifth | - | Music, Technique |
| Double time | A type of meter and tempo or rhythmic feel by essentially halving the tempo resolution or metric division/level. It means: using note values twice as fast as previously but without changing the pace of the chord progressions. | - | Music, Technique |
| Doubling | In a chord, a note that is duplicated in different octaves is said to be doubled. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Drop-2 voicing | The implicit, non-dropped, default voicing in this system has all voices in the same octave, with individual voices numbered from the top down. The highest voice is the first voice or voice 1. The second-highest voice is voice 2, etc.
A drop-2 voicing lo | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Drumapella | A cappella song on drums (term used by Out of Eden) | 🔗 | Music |
| Dyad | A set of two notes or pitches that, in particular contexts, may imply a chord. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Eponymous | Relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| Evaded cadence | An evaded cadence moves from V4-2 to I6. [Because the seventh must fall stepwise, it forces the cadence to resolve to the less stable first inversion chord. To achieve this, a root position V usually changes to a V4-2 right before resolution, thereby "eva | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Faculty | A branch of teaching or learning (such as law, medicine, or liberal arts) in an educational institution | 🔗 | |
| Fill | A short musical passage, riff, or rhythmic sound which helps to sustain the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Genre | A category of artistic, musical or literary composition | 🔗 | Reviewing, Music |
| Half time | Essentially, a half time 'groove' is one that expands one measure over the course of two. The length of each note is doubled while its frequency is halved. | - | Music, Technique |
| Harmony | Harmony refers to the use of simultaneous pitches (notes or tones) of different pitch heights. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Humbucker | A humbucking pickup, humbucker, or double coil, is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils to "buck the hum" (or cancel out the interference) picked up by coil pickups caused by electromagnetic interference, particularly mains hum | 🔗 | Music, Technique, Instrument |
| Imperfect authentic cadence (IAC) | There are three distinct types of imperfect authentic cadences (IAC):
- Root position IAC (shown below): Similar to a perfect authentic cadence, but the highest voice is not the tonic.
- Inverted IAC: Similar to a perfect authentic cadence, but one or bot | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Impromtu | Done without being planned, organized or rehearsed. | - | Music |
| Inversion | | - | Music, Technique |
| Lyricist | A lyricist or lyrist is a person who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's melody. | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| Melisma | The singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession. | 🔗 | Music |
| Modal interchange | The practice of temporarily borrowing chords from a parallel tonality/modality without abandoning the established key. | 🔗 | Music |
| Mode | A particular form or variety of something | 🔗 | |
| Modulation | A change from one musical key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key signature. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Mordent | In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Neapolitan Chord | In music theory, a Neapolitan chord is a major chord built on the lowered second scale degree. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Nucleus | The central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth. | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| Open chord | In music for stringed instruments, especially guitar, an open chord (open-position chord) is a chord that includes one or more strings that are not fingered. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Ostinato | A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm. Maybe more precise: repeated motifs of equal‑length notes (Dave Stewart; Sound on Sound). | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Parallel Keys | In music, a major scale and a minor scale that have the same tonic are called parallel keys and are said to be in a parallel relationship | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Perfect Authentic Cadence (PAC) | In a perfect authentic cadence (PAC), the chords are in root position – that is, the roots of both chords are in the bass – and the tonic is in the highest voice of the final chord. This is generally considered the strongest type of cadence and often foun | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Picardy Third | A major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section that is either modal or in a minor key. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Pickup | The conversion of mechanical movements into electrical impulses in the reproduction of sound
also : a device (as on an electric guitar) for making such conversion | 🔗 | Music, Technique, Instrument |
| Pocket | Playing "in the pocket" means that musicians are playing in time, and not shifting ahead or behind the beat, or deviating from each other. Developing good timekeeping can help with this. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Relative Keys | The relative minor of a particular major key, or the relative major of a minor key, is the key which has the same key signature but a different tonic | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Rim Click | This is the term used for playing the snare drum rim with the shoulder (or side) of the stick while pressing down with the palm of your hand on the snare drum head. The resulting sound is a hollow/wood-block type effect and is a useful musical tool for wh | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Rimshot | These are mostly played on the snare drum, and occur when the tip of the drumstick plays the middle of the drum, while the main body of the stick hits the rim of the drum at the same time. This produces a very distinctive sound referred to as a rimshot. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Run | Sequence of notes, closed spaced in pitch | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Secondary dominant | Secondary chords are a type of altered or borrowed chord, chords which are not part of the key the piece is in. | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Single coil | A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass. It electromagnetically converts the vibration of the strings to an electric signal. Single coil pickups are one of the two most popular design | 🔗 | Music, Technique, Instrument |
| Six-four Chord | The second inversion of a triad is known as a six-four chord | - | Music, Technique |
| Six-three Chord | The first inversion of a triad is known as a six-three chord. | - | Music, Technique |
| Song | A composite of melody, lyrics, voice and instrumental arrangement | - | Music, Reviewing |
| Songwriter | A person who composes words or music or both especially for popular songs | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| Sophomore | Being or associated with the second in a series | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| Spotify Attribute - Acousticness | The higher the value the more acoustic the song is | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Danceability | The higher the value, the easier it is to dance to this song | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Energy | Energy shows a measure of intensity and activity. Typically, energetic tracks feel fast, loud, and noisy. For example, death metal has high energy, while a Bach prelude scores low on the scale. | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Instrumentalness | It describes whether a track has a vocal. In this context vocal sounds are trated as instrumental. The highest value takes songs with Rap or spoken words. | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Liveness | It measures the presence of audience in the recorded song. The higher value increases probability that the track was played live | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Loudness | The higher the value, the louder the song (in dB) | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Mode | It represents the modality of the voice. This value is scaled in range (10). Songs with value closer to 100, have Major melodic | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Popularity | The higher the value the more popular the song is | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Speechiness | The score of present spoken words in a track. Speech recordings are scored close to 100 value. Values in range represent songs which may contain speech and music. The values below 33 threshold are represented by music and tracks without speech. | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Spotify Attribute - Valance | The higher the value, the more positive mood for the song | 🔗 | Music, Data |
| Stub | a small part of a leaf (as of a checkbook) attached to the spine for memoranda of the contents of the part torn away
Wiki: A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject. | 🔗 | Reviewing |
| Style | A particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed | 🔗 | |
| Subtonic | In music, the subtonic is the degree of a musical scale which is a whole step below the tonic note | 🔗 | Music |
| Syncopation | Syncopation occurs when a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent occurs, causing the emphasis to shift from a strong accent to a weak accent | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Tonality | Tonality refers to a system of hierarchical pitch relationships, relating to the concept of musical key, centered around the tonic (or key center). | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
| Turnaround | In jazz, a turnaround is usually the 2 bars at the end of a section of music. It’s function is simply to help you transition into to the next section of music. | 🔗 | Music |
| Voicing | - The way a musician or group distributes, or spaces, notes and chords on one or more instruments
- The simultaneous vertical placement of notes in relation to each other | 🔗 | Music, Technique |
