8 Terms
Contributors in General music
General music
Empfindsamkeit
Music; General music
German "sensitive" style of the mid-eighteenth century, characterized by melodic directness and homophonic texture.
embouchure
Music; General music
The placement of the lips, lower facial muscles and jaws in playing a wind instrument.
dulcimer
Music; General music
Early folk instrument that resembles the psaltery; its strings are struck with hammers instead of being plucked.
drone
Music; General music
Sustained sounding of one or several tones for harmonic support, a common feature of some folk musics.
