BEST Vocabulary Words – Music

A Cappella- without musical accompaniment

Sentence – They sang an a cappella mass.

Adagio – slowly

Sentence – Here you must play adagio

Allegro – in a quick and lively tempo

Sentence – The second movement begins after the allegro.

Amplify – increase the volume of

Sentence – . A photomultiplier can amplify the signal to detectable levels.

Annotations – act of adding notes

Sentence – I wrote annotations in the margin of the book.

Bagpipe – a tubular wind instrument

Sentence – The sound of bagpipes doesn’t stir my blood.

Baritone – the second lowest brass wind instrument

Sentence – He sang in his school choir as a baritone.

Bass drum – a large drum with two heads

Sentence – My heart was doing its usual bass drum act as we drew in.

Beat – the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

Sentence – The drummer beat the soldiers to arms.

Bugle – a brass instrument without valves

Sentence – He roused up from sleep when the bugle sounded.

Cadence – the close of a musical section

Sentence – Pay attention to the pause at the end of each cadence.

Cantabile – smooth and flowing

Sentence – The middle movement is a cantabile for the solo instruments.

Carol – a joyful song

Sentence – She used to carol cheerfully every morning.