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Music (音樂), as can be guessed from the Sino-Korean characters, means the pleasure people feel as sound or by listening to sound. This primitive meaning of music illustrates the psychological aspect that people have the sensibility to feel pleasure on hearing sound, along with the ability to create sounds that evoke pleasure and to enjoy listening to them. In the history of human cultural development, music became an important element of human life very early, in both East and West. As a craft of sound, music has kept pace with the development of human civilization, bringing about various forms and theories as well as the development of musical instruments. Today the field of music is subdivided into areas such as performing and composing music, analyzing and researching music theory, and a kind of service area that covers making instruments and organizing music-related groups and various activities; by type, music is divided into traditional music, classical music, and popular music. Also, in terms of the origin and traditions of music and various technical aspects, Eastern music and Western music are necessarily understood differently.

Table of Music

Music (template)

History of music

Prehistoric, ancient, folk song, religious, music, secular song, military music

Classical

Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical period, Romantic, Impressionist, 20th century, contemporary classical

Popular music/commercial music

Rock (metal, punk, rock, alternative rock), blues (R&B), psychedelic, soul, jazz, electronic music (electronica, EDM), country pop (synth-pop, dance-pop, K-pop), progressive, hip hop,

Western music theory and composition

Music genres, rudiments of music, counterpoint, harmony, musical form, Musical notation, composer, lyricist, songwriter, lyrics, song

Related disciplines

Musicology, music historiography, music archaeology, music psychology

Singing and performance

Musical ensemble, band, big band, concert band, conducting, choir, disc jockey, military band, musician, orchestra, vocals (lead vocals, chorus)

Recording

Single (A-side and B-side, lead single), record (album (studio), EP (mini), compilation, live, remix, repackage), phonograph record (SP, LP, EP), label, producer, audio engineer, sampling, remix, cover, music and technology

Music by region

Asia (Korea, China, Japan, India, Arab), Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Oceania

Related pages

Musical instruments, music festivals, music education, music therapy

Categories

File format

AI-based

  • Suno
  • YuE - Open Full-song Music Generation Foundation Model
  • Suno Studio - Generative AI-based DAW
  • ACE-Step-1.5 - Local music generation model that outperforms paid services
  • NotaGen - Symbolic music generation model that composes classical music

Correspondence Between the Name of Music Notes

Syllabic

Alpha betical

German

Korean

Do

C

C

도 (do)

Re

D

D

레 (re)

Mi

E

E

미 (mi)

Fa

F

F

파 (pa)

Sol

G

G

솔 (sol)

La

A

A

라 (ra)

Si

B

H

시 (si)

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Scorewriter

Music Transcription

  • MusicNet
  • Omnizart - Open source that transcribes entire pieces of music
  • StemRoller - Free open-source app that separates vocals and instruments from a song
  • Demucs - Facebook's Demucs Music Source Separation (AI-based audio source separation)
  • Spleeter - Open source that separates and extracts vocals/drums/bass/piano from a song

Formal elements of a musical piece

A piece of music is made by connecting and arranging certain unit parts. Starting from a motive, it is completed through expansion and variation into larger and smaller forms, and the following elements are used in such forms.

Motive
The smallest formal element. It has a distinct melodic shape and a characteristic rhythm or interval structure. It usually consists of 2 measures, and small phrases are made by repeating, imitating, and varying the motive. A motive is recognized as a motive when it is repeated several times and treated as important.
Small phrase (phrase)
A formal element expanded from a motive, usually consisting of 4 measures, although the length of a small phrase can vary with the tempo of the piece and the number of beats. Generally, the antecedent small phrase ends with a weak cadence in the form of a question, and the consequent small phrase ends with a strong cadence in the form of an answer. Identifying the cadence is therefore important for distinguishing small phrases. A small phrase is also called a phrase; the term phrase is used throughout below.
Large phrase (period, or sentense)
A period is made by combining phrases.

Terms

Rhythm
Rhythm, a word that commonly comes to mind with music, is used in many situations and is therefore hard to define as one clear concept.
Roughly defined, however, rhythm can be seen as music in a specific, periodically regular pattern formed by combining the various elements that make up music: pitch, rests, beat, and dynamics.
Staff
The notation occupied by one instrument or one part, corresponding to one staff (line) of staff paper.
The five horizontal lines on which the height of notes can be written. Notes and the like can be drawn at each position; it is the minimal frame for drawing them, and the five-line staff is the one generally used. There is, of course, also a four-line staff, used for tablature and the like.
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Grand Staff
A staff in which a treble clef staff and a bass clef staff are joined with a { brace, for using and notating a wide range. Piano scores generally consist of grand staves.
There are many scores made of various kinds of staves, such as a single piano score made only of the staff above, but only the basics are covered here.
System, Score, Staves
Notation in which several instruments or several parts (voices) are grouped, corresponding to several staves (lines) of staff paper.
  • ex) If one treble clef staff and one bass clef staff are grouped, as in a piano score, this can be said to correspond to Score in musical terms.
  • ex) Or things like a choral score with each voice notated on its own staff, or a band/orchestra score with each instrument notated on its own staff.
Piece
Originally a term contrasted with a collection of scores, meaning sheet music on which only one piece is notated; commonly it also refers to a simple score made of a single staff, or a score made of about two staves like piano music.
Syllable
A unit of utterance that the speaker and listener perceive as one chunk. Larger than a phoneme and smaller than a word. A syllable consists of a consonant and a vowel, or a vowel alone.
Meter
Western music inherited the concept of meter from poetry; lyrical elements such as the number of lines in a stanza, the number of syllables in each line, and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented, are called meter.
Time signature
The time signature (also called a meter sign) indicates the type of meter of a piece. Time signatures are always written in the form of a fraction. A time signature is written on each staff at the beginning of the piece and wherever the meter changes. At the head of a piece, the order is clef, key signature, time signature.
Key Signature
The key signature is a sign that indicates the key of a piece; it is placed between the clef and the time signature at the beginning of the score and is expressed with sharps (♯, raise a semitone) and flats (♭, lower a semitone).
Syllable Name
02. Syllable names vs pitch names - Drawing sheet music with lilypond (beginner)
Pitch Name
02. Syllable names vs pitch names - Drawing sheet music with lilypond (beginner)
Ledger Line, Ledger Space
The lines drawn to notate a range outside the staff, and the spaces between them.
Think of the 'do' at degree 1 of the treble clef.
Measure
A section of the score (staff) divided into fixed cells by drawing vertical lines. Also called a bar, it is the smallest unit of a piece.
Measures are divided to keep the beat and to clearly distinguish rhythm and dynamics.
Bar, Bar Line
A line drawn to make the regular repeating unit of rhythm clear
Double Bar
Indicates that the meter or key signature changes.
End Bar
A line indicating the end of the piece; draw a thin line on the left and a thick, bold line on the right.
Repeat Mark
In music, a sign instructing that all or part of a piece be played again; also called a repeat sign.
Notes
Rests
Clef
Pitch names
Pitches
Duration or rhythms
Metronome mark
Tempo
Lylics

Documentation

List of music terms - Terms II: Composition theory
Jspm_1985_02_14.pdf

See also

Favorite site

Free Music Download

A collection of sites where music can be downloaded and used for free.

Music recommendation sites

  • Music for Programming - Music mixes that boost focus and productivity while developing, currently 62 episodes in total

References

  1. Music_Notation_Basic_Guide_-_The_Note_Music_Story.pdf ↩

  2. Falcom has declared its music free ↩

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