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Music instruments that have strings. There are two main categories of stringed instruments: plucked and bowed.

The music tracks of motion pictures (aka film). That’s the number of compositions used in film. Soundtracks can either be original or they can consist of tracks and songs that have already…

See diegetic music.

Now this one has a bigger bite to it than the rest, but is still quite straightforward. You have a pre-existing cantus firmus, aka given melody. And then, you have…

A consonant interval that is usually the resolution of a dissonant interval.

See stable interval and consonant.

Lit.: separated. It’s an articulation mark. It’s when a note is interrupted slightly before resonating for its whole duration. It’s like skipping instead of walking, or better, it’s like a horse…

See stave.

The music stave. Think of a notebook that has lines so that we write straight. Something similar is the music stave. It has five lines now but it but it…

An environment created by a set of sounds.

Bars of music have strong and weak beats. Strong beats tend to be the first beats of a bar. They usually come before weak beats. The main factor is the…

Words make up sentences, that make up paragraphs, that in turn, make up texts. Similarly, notes make up phrases, that make up forms, that in turn, make up songs. The…

It’s the fourth degree of a scale.

A genre that belongs to another genre. For instance, symphonic black metal is a subgenre of black metal, which is a subgenre of heavy metal, which is a subgenre of…