Dictionary: T

clef used for tablature see Elements of Tablature for Classical Guitar

a notational system that uses letters, figures and other symbols to indicate how a piece might be performed, for instance by showing the position o…

the belly of a stringed instrument

See Table of Key Signatures

See Table of Major & Melodic minor Scales

music printed in such a way that the performers could sit around a table and read their own various parts, popular in the Renaissance

are silent

is silent

to be silent

silent

a stomping dance often performed to flamenco accompaniment

playfully

table music, the performance of which might accompany a meal

jazz term for a coda, or a short concluding section

a piece of metal or wood at the lower end of a stringed instrument to which the strings are attached

measure, time, beat

to hold or beat time

time species; duple, triple….

in steady time

to beat time

tempo commodo

semibreve

a bar's rest

beat

bar line

time change

time signature

(Vietnam) a guitar like instrument with 3 silk strings

Accompanying drone instrument from India, a large lute with 4 6 strings; five string Egyptian lyre, long necked fretted lute from Bulgaria, Croatia…

Croatian lute

plucked lute from Yugoslavia

southern Italian traditional songs and dances

an Afro Venezuelan rural music and dance style

new dance form from Micronesia

general term for various long necked fretted lutes of the Middle East and Central Asia

playfulness

the Argentinean samba, a passionate musical style, originating in the streets and brothels of Buenos Aires, Argentina, marked by strong syncopation…

the only non dramatic variety of the older flamenco genres, festive in style, with a faster rhythm

festive and joyful flamenco style derived from tangos

Japanese coal miner's dance

a drone instrument, it resembles a sitar except it has no frets. It has four strings tuned to the tonic

as much, much

a very little

so much

dance

dances

a dance form in which the performer taps out rhythms and patterns with his or her heels and toes while wearing special shoes with small metal plate…

a continuous loop of tape which produces an everlasting sound effect when played. Used for any long sound needed without having to continuously rep…

a lute type chordophone that is widespread in the Turkish/Azeri/Persian world and the Caucasus

flamenco style from Almería

a dance in 6/8 time from Southern Italy, which gets faster and faster and is supposed to cure the result of a poisonous bite from the tarantula spi…

a dance in 6/8 time from Southern Italy, which gets faster and faster and is supposed to cure the result of a poisonous bite from the tarantula spi…

an eastern Andalusian flamenco style

slow

slowly

gradually slowing

slow gradually slowed

(Vietnamese '36') Vietnamese version of the hammered dulcimer Tárrega, Franciso (1852 1909) See Classical Guitarists and Composers Tartando (Italia…

pitch

Moroccan warrior's dance

a performer's marking indicating that a note should be performed without harmony

the mechanical aspects of performance

used in the sense of German fashion, manner or style

part

theme

tempestuously

tempestuous

speeds

speed

at a speed to suit the player

at a speed to suit the player

dance speed

minuet speed

the speed the style demands, strict tempo

the first tempo, as the original tempo

alla breve

Symbol marking speed See Elements of Standard Notation for Classical Guitar

standard or moderate time, neither too fast nor too slow

standard or moderate time, neither too fast nor too slow

the first tempo, as the original tempo

the freedom to make small changes in tempo during the progress of the piece to enhance its musical effect, irregular tempo

the first tempo

term means parameters such as beat, rhythm, and meter, those having to do with time

time, beat

a note that is a semitone (half step) away from another note

a note that is a semitone (half step) away

tender

tenderly

gloomy, dark mood

sustaining

tenderly

tenderness

tender

tenderly

hold, sustain

See clef in Staff, Barline, & Clef

held, held on

held, held on

held, held on, fermata

held, held on

lukewarmness, in a tepid manner

lukewarmness, in a tepid manner

unimpassioned, lukewarm

a six beat to the measure dance

an Afro Colombian music style and dance from Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast

a three section form in which the first section A is repeated, often with some changes, after a middle section B, thus the form is called A B A

expressive style typical of some early music in which volume levels shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual crescendos and decres…

harmony based upon the interval of the third, particularly predominant in Western music from the Baroque era through to the nineteenth century

harmony based upon the interval of the third, particularly predominant in Western music from the Baroque era through to the nineteenth century

three voice compositional form of the eighteenth century

three voice compositional form of the eighteenth century

the range and position of a instrument

head

text

the two groups of four notes that make up the two halves of a major or minor scale

the way in which individual musical lines interact within a musical work

theatre

portion, section

the classification of music under headings which include the opening notes of the composition and/or the notes of the main theme of the composition

the compositional process by which a theme is transformed by modifying its melodic outline, its harmony, or its rhythm

the compositional process by which a theme is transformed by modifying its melodic outline, its harmony, or its rhythm

a group of notes, also called a melody, that will form the basis for a work that includes the theme's repetition and/or development

an extended work, sometimes in separated movements or sections, where the opening musical statement (theme) is subjected to development (variations)

a number of themes all in the same key that function as a unit within a section of a form

a large member of the lute family, in use from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, with an extended neck and two sets of strings, one set being…

a style of music that synthesizes characteristics and techniques of classical music and jazz

a note one thirty second the time value of a whole note see Note Values

one thirty second the time value of a whole rest

a form with no pre established musical structure

large suspended steel sheet with handles which produces a thunder like rumble when shaken or beaten

a Saharawi instrument of dug out wood and a leather cover, similar to a four stringed lute

a sign that shows that the note being played or sustained, unbroken, throughout the total time value of the notes under the sign See ties in Note S…

deep, low

a Spanish Renaissance composition

flamenco style derived from tangos, although with a slower beat

third

an Afro Cuban musical style

sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings of the tone quality distinctive of a musical instrument

accented

a word used to mean 'in the rhythm of'

A symbol placed at the left side of the staff indicating the meter of the composition. See time signature in Elements of a Musical Score See time s…

unmetered music which in measured in minutes and seconds, not beats

timidity

timid

fear

fearfully

fearful

a small guitar with 12 metal strings used in Spain, Colombia, Puerto Rico and other Spanish speaking countries

tinking

to tinkle

to tinkle

colour, expression

pre Hispanic Mexican resonating box with 5 strings

Irish hammered dulcimer

typical or traditional

a small stringed instrument of Spanish origin, derived from the guitar family, It usually has four double or triple sets of strings. (There are eig…

A Spanish song dance from Andalusia

Tirando is commonly called the free stroke . After plucking, the finger continues away from the strings rather than stopping on the next string. It…

German table zither that can be both plucked and bowed

See Elements of Standard Notation for Classical Guitar see Elements of Tablature for Classical Guitar

blustering

Mongolian lute

the Iberian term for a flamenco guitarist

a rapid piece of music for keyboard intended as a display for virtuosity; a toccata is often the prelude to a fugue

theatre curtain

Mexican double bass guitar

a piece written in someone's memory

volume of a set of collected volumes

pitch, key, note

pitch, key

shrill sound

a sweet tone quality

major key

interval

the sense of a particular key

thunderous

character of different types of scale, i.e. major, minor, modal, ….

one of the oldest flamenco styles, with songs that include long moans and sudden halts, relating the tragedies suffered by the incarceration of the…

full toned

a sound of definite pitch; the quality of a sound; the American word for note

pitches, keys

symphonic poem

tone colour, timbre

melody

volume of tone

major or minor

pitch

tones, keys, modes

first degree of the scale; the key center

emphasis that may be given to notes where their pitch is high

the chord based on the tonic of a key or scale

triad built on the first degree of the scale

a sheet of metal used to simulate the sound of thunder

musical knowledge

someone possessing musical knowledge

range, compass, register

acoustics

scale

toneless

programmed music

time

thunder

tone, key, mode

serial music

key note

composer

mode, Gregorian tone

contrary melody, counterpoint

wandering note

a song describing an unrequited love

a religious rhythm of the Fulni o Indians in Brazil

melody, tune with guitar accompaniment, in a major key and at a slow tempo

melody, tune with guitar accompaniment, in a major key and at a slow tempo

returning

to return

lively dance from the province Ciudad Real, Spain

grim

rapidly

very rapid

rapid

complex, totally controlled music where the twelve tone principle is extended to elements of music other than pitch, for example, rhythm

the art of depressing, striking, releasing….

fingerboard

always

a musical piece created for a tournament, festive occasions

all

all

suddenly

completely

the whole, the general effect, all together

all

all

a soloist chant

tail; small line; pause sign

translated, arranged, transposed

translation, arrangement, transposition

translated, arranged, transposed

translation, arrangement, transposition

dragged

(Vietnam) a zither with 10 brass strings. The instrument is placed in front of the musician who uses his right hand to regulate the pitch and vibra…

tranquilly

tranquility

tranquility

tranquil

to rearrange music for instruments other than those for which the work was originally written

music for instruments other than those for which the work was originally written

a short passing change of key, an abrupt key change

to move; to play a piece in a different key or one or more octaves higher or lower than it was originally written, the better to suit the instrument

instruments that do not play the notes they read

the changing of the pitch of a piece without changing anything else

a late seventeenth century dance found in some ballets which is closely related to the gavotte

dragging, rallentando

arrangement, transcription

held back, sustained

held back, sustained

dragged

do not drag

sorrow

funeral march

dream

sad

an instrument that generates electronic pitches by pressing a wire on a metal bar, the position along the bar determined the pitch generated

disguise

three

three strings

the highest part

See clef in Staff, Barline, & Clef

hurrying, rushing

with tremolo

with tremolo

trill, a note ornament see tremblement simple in Note Ornamentation

a note ornament see tremblement simple in Note Ornamentation

with tremolo

with tremolo

Classical guitar tremolo typically uses a repeated right hand pattern like . The thumb ( ) plays bass notes while repeats a melody note quickly. Th…

rapidly recurring slight raising and lowering of pitch

a simple duple time popular Cossack dance

a Cuban guitar like instrument with three pairs of strings (occasionally, three sets of three strings). strummed to accompany songs and dances

very

a Florentine dance similar to the cushion dance but employing a handkerchief

An additional elaboration added to a written melody. See trill in Note Symbols

a note ornament see trillo in Note Ornamentation

a note ornament see trillo and mordant in Note Ornamentation

three works on a common theme

three works on a common theme

three works on a common theme

drinking song

a piece played by three players; a piece of music to be play such a group; a contrasted section between two performances of a minuet

a chamber music form for two featured instruments and continuo accompaniment

a triplet; a short trio

triumphant

triumphant

a concerto for three solo instruments and orchestra

invertible counterpoint in which three parts can be interchanged, each making a suitable bass for the other

a time signature in which each measure has three beats

playing three notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument

a time signature in which each measure has three beats

thirty second note see Note Values

A group of three notes of equal time value performed in the time of two. One or two of the notes may be rests of equal value. See triplets in Note…

the half diminished seventh chord; a chord which was originally made up of the notes 'F', 'B', 'D sharp' and 'G sharp', although the name is now ap…

sad

sadness

sadness

sad

the interval of the augmented 4th, two notes three whole tones apart

a three note scale pattern used in the compositions of some Southern African cultures

three

third

a bass line that contains steady, constant, repeated notes

too much; also non troppo, not too much

an ensemble of instruments which belong to the same family type and consists of different registers of sizes

too much; also non troppo, not too much

sad

sad

Romanian hammered dulcimer

gipsy

Jewish hammered dulcimer

ivory picks used to play the Japanese koto

a single stringed instrument from the region of Punjab, consisting of a dried, hardened gourd with a stick going through it, and a single string. T…

air, melody; the process of adjusting the pitch of an instrument to itself

temperament; the pitch to which various strings on a stringed instrument are to be set

a U shaped steel device with a handle at its base, which when struck produces a relatively pure tone of definite pitch

the metal key with mortised end used to turn the wrest pins in tuning

a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decreases the tension in the s…

a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decreases the tension in the s…

in a Turkish style

choreographed figure folk dances from Scandinavia

music played from a tower by the town band

changing the rhythm of a piece of music over several bars to establish a new meter

in jazz, the technique uses a set of chords played at the end of one section to provide a smooth transition into the next section

The note above, the note itself, the note below, then the note itself again. The turn may be inverted as in the preparation of an ascending trill w…

a fanfare or flourish

all the players

all the players

all the chorus

all the players

part of a speaker system designed to handle the high frequency part of the signal

American dance style developed in the 1880s

music in which the first and third beats of each four beat bar (measure) are accentuated, for example, in marches

a set of two bar phrases; in jazz, when different players alternate playing two bar phrases, this is called trading twos

a derivative of the ancient lute, with a pear shaped resonator that becomes narrow toward its upper end to form the neck. It has 4 strings of braid…

a derivative of the ancient lute, with a pear shaped resonator that becomes narrow toward its upper end to form the neck. It has 4 strings of braid…

a quick triple time dance form; an early nineteenth century style of ballet music

a composition having gypsy influences or flavor

Greek long necked lute