| Keyword | Excerpt (click on keyword for complete article) |
| AB form | See Binary form. |
| Absolute pitch | Also called "perfect pitch". The ability to recognize or recall any note. |
| Accompaniment | Musical part or parts with a supporting role. |
| Acoustic | Without electical amplification. E.g. an acoustic guitar is the opposite of an electric guitar. |
| Akkompagnement | See Accompaniment. |
| Akkord | See Chord. |
| Alfabeto | A system developed by Spanish 17th century guitarists for notating standard guitar chords. Alfabeto is the prototype of modern chord notation, but unlike it's modern descendant, there is no direct con |
| Atonality | See Atonal music. |
| Block harmonisation | A method for harmonising a tune, today usually assoiciated with big band and jazz arrangements, but also common in many other music styles and known as ar back as the early 16th century.Block harmonis |
| Blokkharmonisering | See Block harmonisation. |
| Choral harmonisation | A method for harmonising a tune, developed to obtain the fullest possible sound in a homophonic setting with relatively few voices. To obtain this parallel fifths and octaves are avoided, tension note |
| Chord | (No.: Akkord) Two or more notes played simulatneously. |
| Chromatic scale | A scale consisting of all twelve semitones. |
| Circle of fifths | Also called "cycle of fifths". A chain of perfect fifths which will lead back to the original note (at a different octave) after working through the other eleven notes of the chromatic scale. The cycl |
| Close position | In chord theory close position means that the notes in a chord are close together in pitch. Strictly speaking it means there are no room for additional chord notes between the ones played, although in |
| Concertino | The solist group in a concerto grosso. |
| Cycle of fifths | See Circle of fifths. |
| D (1) | Note of the scale; Abbreviation for Deutsch in the cataloguing of works by Schubert. |
| D. C. | Abbreviation of da capo. |
| D. C. al fine | (It.) Abbreviattion of da capo al fine. |
