contrafact
Ramalamadingdong
plunderphonics
fugue
black MIDI
ornament
trio sonata
pad
cantus firmus
ground
lyricize
pipe up
legato
fantasia
cover
through-composed
musical arrangement
unthematic
musical harmony
remix
variation
arrangement
harmony
sample
melodicism
noodle
singsong
develop
dissonant
unresolved
drumstep
canon
impromptu
counterpoint
chordal
absolute music
reharmonization
theme
Thelonious Sphere Monk
melodic theme
Thelonious Monk
composing
idea
musical theme
Monk
glissando
composition
subtune
psytrance
texture
dublike
cover version
ostinato
interpolation
descant
vocalese
line
discant
thematic
retrograde inversion
sheet music
medley
setting
transcribe
voice
ariose
part
chord
pastiche
potpourri
bassooning
chordlike
plainsong
melodiousness
quintet
Cubop
wobble bass
serialism
notewise
sijo
arioso
multichord
proto-rap
serial music
dubbing
cross-beat
tunefulness
varnam
xenochrony
musical composition
arranging
transcription
fondamento
chiptune
rosalia
through-composed
unthematic
singsong
dissonant
unresolved
chordal
dublike
thematic
ariose
chordlike
notewise
multichord
legato
glissando
contrafact
plunderphonics
fugue
black MIDI
ornament
trio sonata
pad
cantus firmus
ground
fantasia
cover
musical arrangement
musical harmony
remix
variation
arrangement
harmony
melodicism
noodle
drumstep
canon
impromptu
counterpoint
absolute music
reharmonization
theme
Thelonious Sphere Monk
melodic theme
Thelonious Monk
composing
idea
musical theme
Monk
composition
subtune
psytrance
texture
cover version
ostinato
interpolation
descant
vocalese
line
discant
retrograde inversion
sheet music
medley
setting
voice
part
chord
pastiche
potpourri
bassooning
plainsong
melodiousness
quintet
Cubop
wobble bass
serialism
sijo
arioso
proto-rap
serial music
dubbing
cross-beat
tunefulness
varnam
xenochrony
musical composition
arranging
transcription
fondamento
chiptune
rosalia
lyricize
pipe up
sample
develop
transcribe
noun
- A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
- A fugue state.
- Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
verb
noun
- A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- The articles used in church services.
- A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- A Christmas tree decoration.
verb
noun
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
verb
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
intj
noun
- A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Terrain.
- The pit of a theatre.
- A soccer stadium.
- Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- Soil, earth.
- A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
verb
- To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To place something on the ground.
- To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
adj
noun
- A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces.
- A traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb (in northwest Africa) featuring exhibitions of horsemanship.
- Any work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles.
noun
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A cover charge.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- A lid.
- In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
verb
- To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- To act as a replacement.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To be enough money for.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- To protect or control (a piece or square).
adj
noun
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
- the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
- the process of varying or being varied
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
noun
- a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- the thing arranged or agreed to
- an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
noun
- the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
- compatibility in opinion and action
- a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
- agreement of opinions
- an agreeable sound property
verb
- To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
- To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
- To make or show something similar to a sample.
- To take or to test a sample or samples of.
noun
- A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
- A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
- Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
- A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
noun
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
verb
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- To ponder or think about (something).
adj
verb
noun
verb
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- work out
- gain through experience
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- change the use of and make available or usable
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- create by training and teaching
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- become technologically advanced
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- generate gradually
- grow emotionally or mature
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- happen
- expand in the form of a series
noun
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.
- Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
noun
- musical creation
- a musical work that has been created
- the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
- the way in which someone or something is composed
- a mixture of ingredients
- the act of creating written works
- art and technique of printing with movable type
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
noun
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
- the feel of a surface or a fabric
- the essential quality of something
- the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
noun
- The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
- The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
- That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.
- An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
- The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate.
noun
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
noun
- A composition technique where the composer inverts the retrograde of a melody or makes the retrograde of the inversion of the melody, using only notes in the same key as the original melody.
- A technique where the composer will take the inversion of the tone row, and write that backwards, thus creating a retrograded inversion of the original note row.
noun
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
adj
verb
- To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
- To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
- To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
- To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
- To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.
- To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.
noun
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- (metonymy) a singer
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- the ability to speak
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
verb
noun
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- a portion of a natural object
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- the extended spatial location of something
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
adv
noun
- A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- A straight line between two points of a curve.
- A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- A horizontal member of a truss.
- A cord.
- An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- The string of a musical instrument.
verb
noun
- A cantus firmus or theme chosen for contrapuntal treatment; so called because often an actual fragment of plain-song.
- A plain unvarnished statement, without exaggeration.
- The simple notes of an air, without ornament or variation.
- A form of monophonic chant in unison using the Gregorian scale, sung in various Christian churches.
noun
- The process in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.
- The conferral of knighthood; investment with a title.
- The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.
- The transfer of recorded music from one medium to another.
noun
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
- (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
- a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
- the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
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