Music Theory And Composition 1-24
24 entries in the Music Theory And Composition compendium.
Accidental (music)Symbols indicating pitch alteration in musical notation.Aleatoric musicMusic where chance determines some element of composition or performance.AtonalityMusic lacking a tonal center, emerging in the early 20th century.Bar (music)Segment of music bounded by bar lines, indicating recurring beats.CadenceA phrase-ending progression creating resolution or suspension.Chord (music)A chord is the simultaneous sound of two or more notes.Chord progressionSuccession of chords forming the harmonic foundation of Western music.Chromatic scaleA twelve-pitch scale with semitone intervals, used in Western music.Circle of fifthsA cycle of perfect fifths organizing pitch classes and key signatures.ClefSymbols that assign pitch to staff lines and spaces.Common practice periodEra when tonal harmony was the sole compositional system.Consonance and dissonanceConcepts defining musical stability and tension through mutual exclusion.Harmony (music)Harmony combines sounds to create musical ideas.OratorioSacred musical drama with minimal staging, often performed in concert form.OrchestrationThe art of assigning instruments to musical parts.OvertureInstrumental opening to stage works and concert pieces.Prelude (music)A short, improvisatory musical piece, often introductory or standalone.Rhapsody (music)A free-flowing, episodic one-movement musical form.RhythmRegular recurrence of strong and weak elements in time.SerialismA method of composition using ordered series of musical elements.Suite (music)Ordered set of dance pieces, central to Baroque music.Symphonic poemOrchestral music evoking non-musical sources in one movement.Sheet musicWritten musical notation enabling performance and study of music.Staff (music)A set of lines and spaces representing musical pitch and time.
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