- A
- a cappella
- absolute music
- absolute pitch
- accidentals
- accompaniment
- achromatic
- acoustic
- acoustics
- Adagio
- Advent
- Aeolian
- Agnus Dei
- air
- Alberti bass
- Albumblatt
- Allegretto
- Allegro
- allemande
- alteration
- altered chord
- alto
- alto clef
- analysis
- Andante
- answer
- antecedent
- anthem
- antithesis
- aria
- arietta
- arpeggio
- arrangement
- ars antiqua
- ars nova
- art song
- atonal
- augmentation
- augmented
- augmented chord
- augmented sixth chord
- authentic cadence
- B
- bagatelle
- ballad
- ballet
- band
- baritone
- Baroque Period
- bass
- bass clef
- basso continuo
- battaglia
- bequadro
- berceuse
- binary form
- bitonal
- borrowed chord
- bouts
- bow
- bowing
- C
- C clef
- Cabalistic Numerological Symbolism
- cacophony
- cadence
- cadenza
- cambiata
- camera
- camerata
- cancel
- canon
- cantata
- canticle
- canto fermo
- cantus firmus
- canzona, canzone
- Capellmeister
- Cappella
- Cello
- chamber music
- chanson
- chiesa
- chorale
- chord
- chromatic
- Classical Era
- clef
- close harmony
- clusters
- coloratura
- comic opera
- common chord
- common time
- common tone
- compound interval
- concert
- concertante
- concerto
- consequent
- consonance
- consort
- continuo
- counterpoint
- countertenor
- crab canon
- Credo
- crescendo
- D
- deceptive cadence
- degree
- descant
- descriptive music
- development
- diatonic
- Dies Irae
- diminished
- diminished seventh chord
- diminished triad
- diminution
- dirge
- dissonance
- divertimento
- dodecaphonic
- dominant
- Dorian
- double concerto
- double counterpoint
- double flat
- double fugue
- double sharp
- dramatic soprano
- dramatic tenor
- dynamics
- E
- eighth
- elegy
- eleventh
- embellishment
- empressionism
- ensemble
- equal temperament
- ethnomusicology
- etude
- evaded cadence
- even tuning
- exercise
- exposition
- F
- F clef
- false cadence
- falsetto
- fantasy, fantasia, fantaisie
- feminine cadence
- fifth
- figured bass
- figured melody
- finale
- fingerboard
- flats
- fourth
- French sixth
- fret
- fugue
- fundamental
- G
- G clef
- gallant
- German sixth
- Gloria
- grace note
- grand opera
- grand staff
- Gregorian chant
- guitar
- H
- half cadence
- half step
- harmonic progression
- harmonic series
- harmony
- head voice
- Heldentenor
- hemitonium
- heterophony
- homophony
- hymn
- Imitation
- imperfect cadence
- impressionism
- impromptu
- improvisation
- incidental music
- instrumentation
- interlude
- interval
- introduction
- Introit
- invention
- inversion
- invertible counterpoint
- Ionian
- Italian sixth
- jazz
- Jubilate
- just intonation
- K
- Kapellmeister
- key
- key signature
- Kyrie
- lament, lamento
- Landini cadence
- Largo
- leading note/tone
- leap
- ledger lines
- leitmotif
- Lent
- libretto
- Lied/Lieder
- litany
- liturgy
- Locrian
- lullaby
- Lydian
- lyric
- lyric soprano
- lyric tenor
- madrigal
- maggiore
- major
- major chord
- major Scale
- Mannheim school
- march
- Mass
- meter signature
- Mixolydian
- modal
- mode
- Moderato
- modern
- modulation
- monody
- monophony
- monothematic
- morceau
- mordent
- motet
- motif
- movement
- music drama
- musicology
- musique concrete
- Nachschlag
- Nachtmusik
- natural
- Neopolitan sixth
- ninth
- nocturne
- nonharmonic notes
- notation
- oblique motion
- octave
- octet
- oeuvre
- Offertory
- open fifth
- opera
- opéra comique
- operetta
- opus
- oratorio
- orchestration
- Ordinary
- ornament
- overtone
- overture
- parallel chords
- parallel intervals
- parallel keys
- parallel motion
- part song
- partial
- partita
- perfect pitch
- period
- phrase
- Phrygian
- plainchant, plainsong
- polonaise
- polychoral
- polyphony
- prelude
- Presto
- program music
- Proper
- quartal harmony
- quintal harmony
- recitative
- Renaissance
- Requiem Mass
- resolution
- Romantic
- root
- Sanctus
- scale
- Second
- sequence
- serenade
- serial music
- seventh
- sharp
- sixth
- sonata
- song forms
- soprano
- staff
- subject
- symphony
- tenor
- theme
- third
- time signature
- tonal
- tonic
- treble
- treble clef
- triad
- trill
- turn
- twelve-tone technique
- Venetian school
- viola
- violin
- violin family
- votive
- Wagner tuba
- waist
- Zigeunermusik
- Zwischenspiel
Glossary of Musical Terms
