General music

General music

Industry: Music

Add a new term

Contributors in General music

Become a Contributors

General music

grand opera

Music; General music

Style of Romantic opera developed in Paris, focusing on serious, historical plots with huge choruses, crowd scenes, elaborate dance episodes, ornate costumes and spectacular scenery.

harmony

Music; General music

The simultaneous combination of notes and the ensuing relationships of intervals and chords. Not all musics of the world rely on harmony for interest, but it is central to most Western music.

harmonium

Music; General music

Organ-like instrument with free metal reeds set in vibration by a bellows; popular in late nineteenth century America.

harmonics

Music; General music

Individual pure sounds that are part of any musical tone; in string instruments, crystalline tones in the very high register, produced by lightly touching a vibrating string at a certain point.

harmonica

Music; General music

Mouth organ; a small metal box on which free reeds are mounted, played by moving back and forth across the mouth while breathing into it.

half step

Music; General music

Smallest interval used in the Western system, the octave divides into twelve such intervals; on the piano, the distance between any two adjacent keys, whether black or white. Also semitone.