This page gathers the 3,073 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Entertainment”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 22 of 31: from “qawwali” to “repeat”.
- qawwali noun A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the South Asian Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
- qin noun Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.
- quadreble noun A voice in a musical composition (usually for male voices) above the treble; descant.
- quadrille noun The music for this dance.
- quadruplet noun A tuplet of four notes.
- quads noun A set of four tenor drums played by a drummer, typically in a marching band or drum corps.
- quadtone noun An interval of four whole tones.
- quantize verb To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the…
- quartal adj Having a distinct preference for intervals of fourths.
- quartet noun A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.
- quaver noun an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
- queercore noun The aggressive rock music associated with this group of people.
- quelbe noun A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of ukulele, banjo, guitar and…
- querencia noun The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand.
- quiet storm noun A radio format and genre of rhythm and blues that is performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style usually associated with the mid…
- quill noun The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- quindicessima adv Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
- quint noun An interval of one fifth.
- quintet noun A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
- quintetto noun A quintet.
- quintole noun A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of three, four or six.
- quintuple adj having five crotchets in a bar
- quite noun A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
- quodlibet noun A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
- r noun Abbreviation of ring.
- rabiz noun A popular modern Armenian music style that shows Middle Eastern influences and is related to Russian blatnyak and Azerbaijani mugham. Most…
- race music noun Commercially recorded African-American popular music from the early 20th century, including blues and jazz.
- radio edit noun A modified version of a song, typically truncated or censored, intended to make it more suitable for airplay.
- rag noun A curtain of various kinds.
- raga noun Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
- rage noun A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- ragga noun A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling.
- raggamuffin noun Synonym of ragga.
- ragged adj Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- ragtime noun A musical form having a rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment.
- rake and scrape noun A type of traditional Bahamian folk music, characterized by a reliance on improvised musical instruments, such as a ripsaw.
- raking noun a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- ramkie noun An improvised guitar-like string instrument made from a discarded oil can, with or without frets, most commonly with three or four strings…
- ranchera noun A traditional Mexican song performed solo with a guitar.
- range noun The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- rangy adj Requiring a large vocal range; having a great difference from the highest to the lowest notes.
- rank noun In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- ranz des vaches noun Any of numerous traditional Swiss melodies played on the alpenhorn, originally to call cows in from the mountains.
- rap noun Rap music.
- rapper noun A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
- rapping noun Musical speech accompanied by a rhythm, most commonly as part of hip-hop music.
- rasgueo noun A strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.
- ratamacue noun A percussion rudiment consisting of a diddled grace note followed by a triplet and downbeat, with right and left as (LL)RLRL or (RR)LRLR.
- rattle noun A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
- ravanahatha noun An ancient bowed stringed instrument of India, Sri Lanka, and surrounding areas, possibly an ancestor of the violin.
- rave noun The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.
- rawstyle noun a hardstyle subgenre which features a distinctly harsh, simplistic, raw, and dark sound, with fast bpm.
- re noun A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
- re-entry noun Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
- readthrough noun An organized reading of the screenplay or script by all of the actors, prior to the actual performance.
- realize verb To arrange (a musical work written for a single performer) to be performed by an orchestra; to orchestrate.
- rebar verb To redistribute the notes of a musical score across the bars, e.g. when changing time signature.
- rebec noun An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early…
- rebetiko noun A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the…
- reblock verb To block, or specify the position of, (actors on the stage) again.
- rebop noun bebop
- recapitulation noun The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the…
- recast verb To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
- rechart verb To chart again, to return to the music charts.
- recit noun A recitative.
- recitation noun A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
- recitative noun dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple…
- reco-reco noun A scraped percussion instrument used in Brazilian music, traditionally having a sawtooth-notched cylindrical body made of bamboo or wood…
- recorder noun A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
- redhead noun A kind of 800-watt lamp.
- reduction noun An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- reductivism noun A minimalist school of music with similar aims.
- reed noun Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through…
- reed organ noun A keyboard musical instrument of which the harmonium and the American organ are the principal types.
- reedwork noun Collectively, the reed stops of an organ.
- reel noun The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- reentrant adj Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry).
- regal noun A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in…
- reggae noun A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and…
- reggae fusion noun A genre of reggae that mixes reggae and/or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, funk, soul, disco…
- Regietheater noun The modern practice of allowing a director freedom to diverge from the original intentions of the playwright or operatist, for example by…
- regional Mexican noun A collective name encompassing types of Mexican country music, such as mariachi, norteño, sierreño, corridos, etc.
- register noun The range of a voice or instrument.
- registration noun The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
- rehair verb To renew the hair of the bow of a bowed string instrument.
- rehearse verb To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
- related adj Synonym of relative.
- relationship noun The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
- relative adj Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
- relative pitch noun The ability to identify or create a given note by comparing it with a reference note and discerning the interval between those two notes.
- relaxation noun The release following musical tension.
- release noun A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- religioso noun A piece intended to be played with religious devotion.
- relish noun A type of ornamentation comprising one or more trills.
- reload noun A repeated track on a DJ set.
- remaster verb To produce a new version of a recording by remixing the original master recordings.
- remastering noun The production of a new version of a recording by remixing the original master recordings.
- remise noun The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
- remix noun A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes.
- repeat noun A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.