Dobro

 Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.

Downtempo

 Downtempo (or downbeat) is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, the style may be played in chillout clubs or as "warm-up or cool-down" music during a DJ set. Examples of downtempo subgenres include trip hop, ambient house, chillwave, psybient and lo-fi hip hop.

Madchester

 Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene.

rockabilly

 rockabilly is an early style of rock and roll music. It dates back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South. As a genre, it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues

Larghissimo

 Larghissimo – extremely slow musical timing (24 bpm and under)

paean

 A paean (/ˈpiːən/) is a song or lyric poem expressing triumph or thanksgiving. In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice (monody). It comes from the Greek παιάν (also παιήων or παιών), "song of triumph, any solemn song or chant". "Paeon" was also the name of a divine physician and an epithet ("byname") of Apollo.

Paean is now usually used to mean an expression of praise or exultation (such as its coining in the redundant expression "paeans of praise"). A song called "Paean" was used in a Chinese propaganda film called The East Is Red.

 

griot

 

A griot (/ˈɡriːoʊ/; French: [ɡʁi.o]; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋߟߌ, djeli or djéli in French spelling); Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof: gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.

The griot is a repository of oral tradition and is often seen as a leader due to their position as an advisor to royal personages. As a result of the former of these two functions, they are sometimes called bards. They also act as mediators in disputes. 

 

chorister

 

chorister (plural choristers)

1. A singer in a choir.

1. None of the new choristers can sing in tune but they will learn soon enough.

2. A director or leader of a choral group.

   Jane was the chorister of her congregation's choir, and that occupied much of her time on the weekends.

Campanology

 Campanology (/kæmpəˈnɒlədʒi/) is the scientific and musical study of bells. It encompasses the technology of bells – how they are founded, tuned and rung – as well as the history, methods, and traditions of bellringing as an art.

 

It is common to collect together a set of tuned bells and treat the whole as one musical instrument. Such collections – such as a Flemish carillon, a Russian zvon, or an English "ring of bells" used for change ringing – have their own practices and challenges; and campanology is likewise the study of perfecting such instruments and composing and performing music for them. 

 

In this sense, however, the word campanology is most often used in reference to relatively large bells, often hung in a tower. It is not usually applied to assemblages of smaller bells, such as a glockenspiel, a collection of tubular bells, or an Indonesian gamelan.

madrigal

 A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) eras.

Microtonal music

 Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave. In other words, a microtone may be thought of as a note that falls between the keys of a piano tuned in equal temperament.

 

violinic

 

violinic (comparative more violinic, superlative most violinic)

1. Of or relating to a violin or its sound.

 

corrugaphone

 The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, also sold as Free-Ka in the 1960s-1970s, is an experimental musical instrument which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle to play.

 

Sforzando

 

• Sforzando (musical direction), in musical notation to play a note with sudden, strong emphasis

 

banger

 

banger (plural bangers)

1. A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.
   1. (Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
   2. (sexuality, slang) A person who has sex.

1. 2. Coordinate terms: bang, gangbang, gangbanger

   3. (automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.

      Synonyms: bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox, rustbucket; see also Thesaurus:old car

   4. (US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.

      He drives a little four-banger to work.

   5. (curling) One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
   6. (curling) One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
2. (Britain, sexuality, slang) A woman's breast.
3. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, food, slang) A sausage.

   Synonym: (Australia) snag

   bangers and mash

4. (US, crime, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
5. (Britain, music, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
6. (slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.

Backmasking

 

Backmasking is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. Backmasking is a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional.

Backmasking was popularised by the Beatles, who used backward instrumentation on their 1966 album Revolver. Artists have since used backmasking for artistic, comedic and satiric effect, on both analogue and digital recordings. The technique has also been used to censor words or phrases for "clean" releases of explicit songs. 

 

 

musical hoax

 A musical hoax (also musical forgery and musical mystification) is a piece of music composed by an individual who intentionally misattributes it to someone else.

Overture

 Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") in music was originally the instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing instrumental, programmatic works that presaged genres such as the symphonic poem. These were "at first undoubtedly intended to be played at the head of a programme".

Fidelio

 Fidelio (/fɪˈdeɪljoʊ/; German: [fiˈdeːlio]), originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. 

 

Grindcore

 Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s.