Outline of music
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Music – human expression often in the medium of time using the structures of sounds or tones and silence. It may be expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre. Template:TOC limit
Definition of music
- Definition of music
- One of the arts
- One of the performing arts
- One of the humanities
- An academic discipline
History of music
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- Western classical music
- Dates of classical music eras
By region or ethnicity
- Timeline of trends in Australian music
- Byzantine music
- Timeline of Chinese music
- Timeline of Italian music
- Timeline of music in the United States
- History of music in the biblical period
Musical ensembles
Musical ensemble Template:Div col
- Band
- Camerata
- Chapel
- Choir
- Decet
- Duet
- Duodecet
- Gamelan
- Nonet
- Octet
- Orchestra
- Percussion ensemble
- Quartet
- Quintet
- Septet
- Sextet
- Sinfonietta
- Trio
Genres of music
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- Blues
- Classical
- Country
- Electronic
- Electronica
- Folk
- Funk
- Gospel
- Grunge
- Hip hop
- Jazz
- Latin
- Martial music
- Pop
- Reggae
- Rhythm and blues
- Rock
- Ska
- Theatre music
Music by region
Cultural and regional genres of music
- West Africa
- Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo
- North Africa
- Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • South Sudan • Tunisia • Western Sahara
- Central Africa
- East Africa
- Southern Africa
- Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa • Eswatini
- Dependencies
- Mayotte (France) • St. Helena (UK) • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Asia
- Central Asia
- East Asia
- China • Tibet • Hong Kong • Macau • Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan
- North Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines (Metro Manila) • Singapore • Thailand • Timor-Leste • Vietnam
- South Asia
- Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
- India
- States of India: Andhra Pradesh • Arunachal Pradesh • Assam • Bihar • Chhattisgarh • Goa • Gujarat • Haryana • Himachal Pradesh • Jammu and Kashmir • Jharkhand • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Meghalaya • Mizoram • Nagaland • Odisha • Punjab • Rajasthan • Sikkim • Tamil Nadu • Telangana • Tripura • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarakhand • West Bengal
- West Asia
- Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • State of Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen
- Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)
- North Caucasus
- Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)
- North Caucasus
- South Caucasus
- Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)
- South Caucasus
- Europe
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy (Rome) • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia •
- Norway
- Spain
- Autonomous communities of Spain: Catalonia
- Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
- North America
- Canada
- Provinces of Canada: • Alberta • British Columbia (Vancouver) • Manitoba • New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Prince Edward Island • Quebec • Saskatchewan
- Territories of Canada: Northwest Territories • Nunavut • Yukon
- Canada
- Alabama • Alaska • Arizona (Tucson) • Arkansas • California (Los Angeles) • Colorado Denver • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia (Athens, Atlanta) • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois (Chicago) • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland (Annapolis, Baltimore) • Massachusetts • Michigan (Detroit) • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York (New York City) • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas Austin • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington (Olympia, Seattle) • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
- Central America
- Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama
- Central America
- Caribbean
- Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands
- Caribbean
- Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)
- Australasia
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- New Zealand
- Melanesia
- Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •
- Micronesia
- Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (USA) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • Wake Island (USA) •
- Polynesia
- American Samoa (USA) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Adamstown • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)
- Australasia
- South Atlantic
Musical compositions
Types of musical pieces and compositions
Single-movement forms
- Strophic form (AA...)
- Binary form (AB)
- Ternary form less often tertiary (ABA)
- Arch form (ABCBA)
Multi-movement forms
- Ballet
- Cantata
- Chorale
- Concerto
- Dance
- Etude
- Fantasia
- Fugue
- Mass
- Opera
- Oratorio
- Prelude
- Requiem
- Rhapsody
- Sonata
- Suite
- Symphonic poem
- Symphony
Sections of a piece or composition
- Introduction
- Exposition
- Recapitulation
- Verse
- Refrain (chorus)
- Bridge
- Interlude
- Guitar solo
- Conclusion
- Coda
- Fadeout
Musical notation
- Staff
- Clefs
- Key signature
- Time signature
- Bars (Measures)
- Ledger lines
- Grand staff
- Notes
- Accidentals
- Lyrics (included on vocal music)
- Modern musical symbols
- Score (for ensembles)
- Sheet music
Variations of musical notation
Musical techniques
- Bell chord
- Broken chords
- Ostinato
- Tremolo
- Guitar performance techniques
Musical skills and procedures
- Absolute pitch
- Ear training
- Fingering
- Learning music by ear
- Modulation
- Numerical sight-singing
- Practice
- Relative pitch
- Sight reading
- "Swinging"
- Transposition
- Tuning
- Virtuosity
Vocal ranges
Female ranges
Male ranges
Musical instruments
Musical instrument (List of musical instruments)
- Wind instruments
- Percussion instruments
- String instruments
- Voice
- Electronic instruments
- Keyboard instruments
See also the List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number
Music technology
- Electric music technology
- Electronic and digital music technology
- Mechanical music technology
- List of music software
Music industry
- Album
- Compact disc (CD)
- Compact Cassette
- Concert
- Concert tour
- Grammy Awards
- Music recording sales certification
- Performance
- Record
- Record industry
- Recording studio
- Single
Music industry participants
- A&R
- ASCAP
- Band manager
- Booking agent
- BMI
- Copyright collective
- Disc jockey
- MCPS
- Musician – person who writes, performs, or makes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music.
- Instrumentalist – one who plays a musical instrument.
- Traditional instrumentalist – one who plays folk music on traditional instruments such as gongs.
- Classical instrumentalist – one who plays classical music, usually with Western orchestral instruments such as the violin, flute etc.
- Instrumentalists who plays popular music – one who plays with instruments in the big band, e.g. the electric guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet, trombone etc.
- Singer – a vocalist.
- Composer – person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media.
- Conductor – leads a musical ensemble. A conductor may simultaneously act as an instrumentalist in the ensemble.
- Recording artist – creates recorded music, such as CDs and MP3 files.
- Instrumentalist – one who plays a musical instrument.
- Musicians' Union
- Publisher
- PRS
- Record producer
- Record label
- Record distributor
- Tour promoter
- Road crew ("roadies")
- Performance rights organisation
Music theory
Elements of music
- Pitch
- Scale
- Mode
- Chord
- Dynamics (music)
- Articulation
- Texture
- Consonance and dissonance
- Expression
- Harmony
- Melody
- Musical form
- Notation
- Rhythm
- Timbre
Musicology
- Biomusicology
- Cognitive musicology
- Ethnomusicology
- Historical musicology
- Systematic musicology
- Sociomusicology (music sociology)
- Philosophy of music
- Music acoustics (physics of music)
- Computer sciences of music
- Zoomusicology
Music education
Music and politics
Music organizations
- Musicians' Union (UK)
- Sony Music Entertainment
- International Music Council
- International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
- Australian Recording Industry Association
Music publications
Psychology of music
- Cognitive musicology
- Cognitive neuroscience of music
- Culture in music cognition
- Music and emotion
- Music-specific disorders
- Music therapy
- Psychoacoustics
- Psychoanalysis and music
- Psychology of music preference
See also
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External links
- Taxonomy of musical instruments
- The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples, quizzes and simulations
- The Music-Web Music Encyclopedia, for musicians, composers and music lovers
- Dolmetsch free online music dictionary, complete, with references to a list of specialised music dictionaries (by continent, by instrument, by genre, etc.)
- Musico-Dico, a little music encyclopedia
- "On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education: Bach als Erzieher", a paper by Prof. Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz in which he explains the history of the different views hold about music in Western societies, from Ancient Greece to our days
- BBC Blast Music For 13- to 19-year-olds interested in learning about, making, performing and talking about music
- Musical Terms - Glossary of music terms from Naxos
- Monthly Online Features From Bloomingdale School of Music, addressing a variety of musical topics for a wide audience
- Arts and Music Uplifting Society towards Transformation and Tolerance Articles meant to stimulate people's awareness about the peace enhancing, transforming
- PhilosophyOfMusic.org edited by Dustin Garlitz
- Experimental Early Music