Let's talk musical vocabulary...and make it fun.

Question

I've run a quick search and couldn't find any topics specifically for musical terms or grammar. I'm always seeing topics about music, and I know there are even Reference entries about it, so let's make it happen!

In fact, we'll even make a A-Z game of it. We'll start with the letter A (of course) and list words all the way to Z, only rule is it must be musical! Let's post the Spanish word with translation (EX: nota - note) then along with the word, provide any explanation that helps learners understand better what the word is and means (readers may not all be musicians, and may need further detail). ¡Vamos hacerlo!

Edit: Forgive me aloshek, I was excited about this, last edit I promise. Anyways nizhoni provided us with the starter, "antifon=antiphon : a devotional text sung as part of the liturgy"...now B and so on.

Edit 2: Let's keep it going, start from A and venture through Z again, and I say, repeat the process until we run out of words.

Hmm... and why not make it an A-Z game? ;)) - Issabela, Dec 28, 2009

Ok, Issabela totally made it better...thanks for the suggestion. ¡Vamos hacerlo! =) - DJ_Huero, Dec 28, 2009

How about a starting word? - aloshek, Dec 28, 2009

Sound good now? =) - DJ_Huero, Dec 28, 2009

Your getting my vote, although sadly, I missed out on this game! - Nicole-B, Dec 28, 2009

Check out my answer below. - Nicole-B, Dec 28, 2009

Glad you recycled! :D - aloshek, Dec 29, 2009

the first A-Z game ever looks goooood ;)) - 00b6f46c, Sep 4, 2010

Answer 1

Lira-Lyre musical

Answer 2

OK now you can throw this one out if you want but it's "jingo" a song by Santana.

Probably not even a Spanish word because I can't find it anywhere in the dictionary but it's a great song by a fantastic Latino musician and I just had to do it. - Yeser007, Jan 4, 2010

Yes he is. And your answer is fine, i'm sure most have become stumped on words. =) - DJ_Huero, Jan 5, 2010

Answer 3

komuz (instrumento musical de Kirguistán)

Fidiyou posted koala before, jeje - 00494d19, May 20, 2010

Answer 4

n

la nana

lullaby

Answer 5

kilobyte - música digital

Not very good I know, or how about

Kit de batería - drum kit?

Answer 6

ayy, ¡la guitarra por supuesto! - guitar

Answer 7

el jazz - jazz

Answer 8

dúo duet

I actually understood the rule this time!! Yupeeeeeeeee

jejeje - DJ_Huero, Dec 28, 2009

jajaja, I think you meant "yipeeeee" a yuppy is something you don't normally yell :D - aloshek, Dec 28, 2009

jaja, maybe that's what they yell in España. ;-) - DJ_Huero, Dec 28, 2009

Answer 9

clave - key/clef

A symbol indicating the pitch represented by one line of a staff, in relation to which the other pitches of the staff can be determined.

Answer 10

quinta - fifth (interval)

An interval in music means the distance between two notes, making the fifth degree of a scale a fifth from its tonic center. The perfect fifth is an important interval in tonal music because, along with the unison, octave and fourth, the fifth is considered a "perfect interval" and therefore one of the most consonant.

Darn it! You took mine. - lkelly, Sep 4, 2010

Answer 11

diatónico=diatonic harmony limiting itself to 7 notes of the scale

Answer 12

étude - etude

1. A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique.
2. A composition featuring a point of technique but performed because of its artistic merit.

(I've seen etude translated as estudio because the orignal French word means study, but I believe when use in reference to music, it retains it's French influence)

Answer 13

kind of lame, but I found this interesting in the reference area.

hacer rap - to rap

-and for a bonus, a rapper is called "un/a rapero/a" (not in the reference)

Answer 14

Ok, here goes a round 3 for me, have I actually stumped everyone else?

interpretar - to perform

Answer 15

un estudio - an étude

An étude (a French word meaning study), is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. - DJ_Huero, Dec 29, 2009