A
to blow
at the piano
at the point, at the tip
at the frog
tone/
note approached/reached by leap
to cue
beginning
to strike
up, to break
into
to sustain
to maintain
a talent
for music
incentive
award
/prize
to strike
to strike, to hit
to strike
ornament
(played/performed) before the beat
touch
touch response
touch response
to connect
connection
to speak
, to respond
speech, response
incomplete neighbor
, incomplete neighbor(ing) tone/
note
to bow
number of cycles
/vibrations
per second, cps
principal, first/1st chair/desk
<BN> subsidy
application, application for subsidy
attack
vocal
tract/cavity
to tongue
to increase
, to swell
abbreviation
Abgesang
subscription concert
absolute
/abstract
music
absolute
note/pitch names
(sense
of) perfect/absolute
pitch, PP
, AP
substitute
ornament
/embellishment
academic year
a cappella
choir
/chorus
stress, accent
accent, stress mark
accent
circumflex
, caret
accented
fifths/5ths
accented octaves/8ves
accented parallels
to stress
stress/accent
shift
tura
acciaccatura
accidental
brace
accompanied recitative
cordeon
accordion
78-toerenplaat
78 rpm
record
back
to lag behind
offstage
, behind the scenes, in the wings
background
background noise
background music
muzak
background noise
offstage
offstage
noot
eighth
note
,
quaver
eighth
(-note) rest,
quaver
rest
eighteenth-century music
s
register
eight-foot stop
to act
actor
action notation
actress
contemporary
music
additive rhythm
breath
to breathe
, to take
breath
breath
management
to breathe
, to take
breath
breathing
breath
mark
breath
/breathing
pause
breath support
adiastematic neumes
aerophone
to dampen
affect
, affection
doctrine
/theory of (the) affects
/affections
to leave
(the) stage
altered
tone/
note
altered interval
abbreviation
to decrease
, to fade (away)
to regulate
regulation
farewell concert
farewell tour
to cut
off
cut-off
ending, close
, cadence
to play (back)
to play out, to play to the end, to finish
to wear
out
splitting off, separation
falling passing
tone/
note
falling/frustrated
leading tone/
note, free resolution
escape tone/
note, incomplete neighbor
, incomplete neighbor(ing) tone/
note
distance between two pitches
to tune
to tune up
to tune
to
to tune in to
down-bow
to graduate
afterbeat
to tap his/her/the baton
Agnus Dei
agogics
agogic
agogic accent
A♯
Ax
chord
chord label/symbol
op
een
to build
a chord (upon)
arpeggiation
chord diagram
chord theory
chord scheme
chord chart
to connect chords
chord(al) figuration
chord(al) function
chord(al) instrument
added-tone/
added-note chord
tonic
/key chord
chord succession, succession of chords
chord progression, progression of chords
chord quality
chord symbol
chord/harmonic
tone/
note
chord connection
tonicizing
a key, touching upon a key
chord formation/building
nonchord
/nonharmonic
tone/
note
A clarinet
acousmatic
acoustics
acoustics
acoustic
acoustic
anechoic chamber
act
albertijnse bas
Alberti bass
album
aleatory
/aleatoric
music
alphabet names
alphabetical
/letter notation
elementary
/general music theory
elementary
/general music education
elementary/general music theory and ear training
alla breve
(meter/
time), half/cut time
all rights reserved
all-interval
series
>
/row
as…
alto
,
contralto
viola
alto
alto
alto
/treble
recorder
alteration
to alter
couplet
, episode
, B-section
/C-section
English horn,
cor anglais
, mv. cors anglais
> ,
cor
alto
/
tenor horn
violist
, viola
player
alto
alto clef
violist
, viola
player
viola
amateur
amateurish
amateurish
amateur
musician
amateur
standard
ambitus
range, ambitus
ambitus
amen
,
amplitude
light music
sie
amusia
unmusical
crusis/ana
crouse
anacrusis
analog recording
analogous
analog
analysis
>
to analyze
pest
anapest
anhemitonic
anonymous
composer
anticipation
ornament
(played/performed) before the beat
cadential
six-four, cadential 6/4 (chord)
descending melodic contour
antiphonal
antiphonal
antiphon
polyrhythm(s)
, cross-rhythm(s), metric
shift, tuplet
fifths/5ths by contrary
motion/movement, contrary fifths/5ths
octaves/8ves
by contrary motion/movement, contrary octaves/8ves
answer
aperiodic
voor
to applaud
applause
applicatura
tura
appoggiatura
at sight
arabesque
Arabic numeral
Arabic music
work song
archive
recording
aria
aria, air
arm
tone arm
weak in harmonics
/overtones
arpeggio
arrangement
to arrange, to score
arranger
arsis
>
arsic motive
articulation
articulation mark/sign
to articulate
artist
artist, performer
greenroom
stage door
stage/artists
name
artistic
artistic
policy/management
artistic director
artistic
/poetic
license
artistic director
A♭
A♭♭
to aspirate
pivot
/common tone/
note
asymmetry
soort
asymmetric(al)
meter/
time
asymmetric(al)
phrase
asymmetric(al)
phrase structure
asynchronous
athematic(al)
, nonthematic(al)
atonal
atonality
aubade
apparatuur
audio
equipment
audio cassette
physiology
of hearing
audiogram
audiologist
audiometry
audiovisual
audiovisual
aids/means
to have
an audition, to audition
audition
to have
an audition, to audition
auditive
auditive
memory
auditorium
, auditory
augmentation
unfolding
composing-out
setting of the outer voices
copyright
performing rights
protected by copyright, under copyright, copyrighted
free from/of copyright
copyright(s)
performing rights
royalties
copyright society/company
authentic
/final/full/complete/perfect cadence
, full close
toon
ladder
natural minor scale
authentic
mode
authentic
performance
authentic
performance practice
authentic
/period
instrument
authentic
/complete/
perfect cadence
, full close
autograph
autonomous
music
car stereo
/radio
oboe A
tuning
fork A
avant-garde
avant-garde
at sight