Social:Outline of music

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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to music

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to music:

Music – human expression often in the medium of time using the structures of sounds or tones and silence. It may be expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre.

Definition of music

History of music

History of music

  • Timeline of musical events –
    • Prehistoric music
    • Ancient music
      • Music in ancient India
      • Music of Mesopotamia
      • Music of ancient Greece
      • Music of ancient Rome
  • Art music
    • Andalusian classical music
    • Arab classical music
    • Chinese classical music
    • Indian classical music
      • Carnatic music
      • Hindustani classical music
    • Persian traditional music
      • Sasanian music
  • Western classical music
  • Dates of classical music eras
    • Early music period
      • European medieval music
        • Saint Gall
        • Saint Martial
        • Goliard
        • Ars antiqua
          • Notre-Dame school
        • Troubadour
        • Trouvère
        • Minnesang
        • Ars nova
        • Trecento
        • Ars subtilior
      • Renaissance music
    • Common practice period
    • 20th-century classical music
    • 21st-century classical music

By region or ethnicity

Musical ensembles

Musical ensemble  

  • Band –
    • Band (rock and pop) –
    • Brass band –
    • Concert band –
    • Fanfare band –
    • Jazz band –
      • Big band –
    • Marching band –
    • Military band –
      • Ottoman military band –
    • One-man band –
    • Pipe band –
  • Camerata –
  • Chapel –
  • Choir –
    • Flute choir –
    • Men's chorus –
    • Singakademie –
  • Decet –
  • Duet –
    • Piano duet –
  • Duodecet –
  • Gamelan –
  • Nonet –
  • Octet –
    • String octet –
  • Orchestra –
    • Pit orchestra –
    • String orchestra –
  • Percussion ensemble –
  • Quartet –
    • Flute quartet –
    • Piano quartet –
    • Saxophone quartet –
    • String quartet –
    • Wind quartet –
    • Woodwind quartet –
  • Quintet –
    • Brass quintet –
    • Clarinet quintet –
    • Pierrot ensemble –
    • String quintet –
    • Wind quintet –
  • Septet –
  • Sextet –
    • Piano sextet –
    • String sextet –
  • Sinfonietta –
  • Trio –
    • Clarinet trio –
    • Jazz trio –
      • Organ trio –
    • Piano trio –
    • String trio –


Genres of music

Music genre   (list)


  • Blues –
  • Classical –
  • Country –
  • Electronic –
    • Electronic dance –
  • Electronica –
  • Folk –
  • Funk –
  • Gospel –
  • Grunge –
  • Hip hop –
  • Jazz –
    • Avant-garde jazz –
    • Chamber jazz –
    • Free jazz –
    • Latin jazz –
    • Orchestral jazz –
  • Latin –
    • Latin ballad –
  • Martial music
  • Pop –
    • Dance-pop –
    • Electropop –
  • Reggae –
  • Rhythm and blues –
  • Rock –
    • Heavy metal –
    • Progressive rock –
    • Psychedelic rock –
    • Punk rock –
  • Ska –
  • Theatre music –
    • Ballet –
    • Opera –
    • Musical theatre –
      • Incidental music –


Music by region

Cultural and regional genres of music

Africa
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Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo
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Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • South Sudan •Tunisia • Western Sahara
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Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe
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Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe
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Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa • Eswatini
Dependencies
Mayotte (France) • St. Helena (UK) • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Asia
Central Asia
Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan
East Asia
China • Tibet • Hong Kong • Macau • Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan
North Asia
Russia
Southeast Asia
Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia • East Timor (Timor-Leste) • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines (Metro Manila) • Singapore • Thailand (Bangkok) • Vietnam
South Asia
Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
India
States of India: Andhra Pradesh • Arunachal Pradesh • Assam • Bihar • Chhattisgarh • Goa • Gujarat • Haryana • Himachal Pradesh • Jammu and Kashmir • Jharkhand • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Meghalaya • Mizoram • Nagaland • Odisha • Punjab • Rajasthan • Sikkim • Tamil Nadu • Telangana • Tripura • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarakhand • West Bengal
West Asia
Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • State of Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen
Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)
North Caucasus
Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)
South Caucasus
Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)
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Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy (Rome) • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia •
Norway
Svalbard
Spain
Autonomous communities of Spain: Catalonia
Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine
United Kingdom
England (Cornwall, London, Sussex) • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales (Cardiff, Newport)
Vatican City
European Union
North America
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Provinces of Canada: • Alberta • British Columbia (Vancouver) • Manitoba • New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Prince Edward Island • Quebec • Saskatchewan
Territories of Canada: Northwest Territories • Nunavut • Yukon
Greenland • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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Alabama • Alaska • Arizona (Tucson) • Arkansas • California (Los Angeles)  • Colorado Denver • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia (Athens, Atlanta)  • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois (Chicago) • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland (Annapolis, Baltimore)  • Massachusetts • Michigan (Detroit)  • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York (New York City)  • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas Austin • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington (Olympia, Seattle)  • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
Washington, D.C.
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Central America
Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama
Caribbean
Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands
Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)
Australasia
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(Adelaide, Perth, Sydney)
Dependencies/Territories of Australia
Christmas Island • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • Norfolk Island
New Zealand
Melanesia
Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •
Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (USA) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • Wake Island (USA) •
Polynesia
American Samoa (USA) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Adamstown • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)
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Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela
South Atlantic
Ascension Island • Saint Helena • Tristan da Cunha

Musical compositions

Musical composition

Types of musical pieces and compositions

Musical form

Single-movement forms

  • Strophic form (AA...) –
  • Binary form (AB) –
  • Ternary form less often tertiary (ABA) –
  • Arch form (ABCBA)

Multi-movement forms

  • Ballet –
  • Cantata –
  • Chorale –
  • Concerto –
  • Dance –
  • Etude –
  • Fantasia –
  • Fugue –
  • Mass –
  • Opera –
  • Oratorio –
  • Prelude –
  • Requiem –
  • Rhapsody –
  • Sonata –
  • Suite –
  • Symphonic poem –
  • Symphony –

Sections of a piece or composition

Section (music)

  • Introduction –
  • Exposition –
  • Recapitulation –
  • Verse –
  • Refrain (chorus) –
  • Bridge –
  • Interlude –
  • Guitar solo –
  • Conclusion –
  • Coda –
  • Fadeout

Musical notation

Musical notation –

  • Staff –
    • Clefs –
    • Key signature –
      • Key –
    • Time signature –
      • Beats –
    • Bars (Measures) –
    • Ledger lines –
  • Grand staff –
  • Notes –
    • Note values –
    • Dotted notes –
    • Ties –
  • Accidentals –
  • Lyrics (included on vocal music) –
  • Modern musical symbols
  • Score (for ensembles) –
  • Sheet music

Variations of musical notation

  • Percussion notation –
  • Figured bass –
  • Lead sheets –
  • Chord charts –
    • Shape note system –

Musical techniques

  • Bell chord
  • Broken chords
    • Arpeggio
      • Bass arpeggiation
      • Non-harmonic arpeggio
  • Ostinato
  • Tremolo
  • Guitar performance techniques

Musical skills and procedures

  • Absolute pitch –
  • Ear training –
  • Fingering –
  • Learning music by ear –
  • Modulation –
  • Numerical sight-singing –
  • Practice –
  • Relative pitch –
  • Sight reading –
  • "Swinging" –
  • Transposition –
  • Tuning –
  • Virtuosity –

Vocal ranges

Female ranges

  • Soprano –
  • Mezzo-soprano –
  • Contralto –

Male ranges

  • Boy soprano –
  • Sopranist –
  • Alto –
  • Tenor –
  • Baritone –
  • Bass-baritone –
  • Bass –

Musical instruments

Musical instrument   (List of musical instruments)

See also the List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number

Music technology

Music technology –

Music industry

Music industry

Music industry participants

  • A&R –
  • ASCAP –
  • Band manager –
  • Booking agent –
  • BMI –
  • Copyright collective –
  • Disc jockey –
  • MCPS –
  • Musician – person who writes, performs, or makes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music.
    • Instrumentalist – one who plays a musical instrument.
      • Traditional instrumentalist – one who plays folk music on traditional instruments such as gongs.
      • Classical instrumentalist – one who plays classical music, usually with Western orchestral instruments such as the violin, flute etc.
      • Instrumentalists who plays popular music – one who plays with instruments in the big band, e.g. the electric guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet, trombone etc.
    • Singer – a vocalist.
    • Composer – person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media.
      • Songwriter –
      • Arranger –
    • Conductor – leads a musical ensemble. A conductor may simultaneously act as an instrumentalist in the ensemble.
    • Recording artist – creates recorded music, such as CDs and MP3 files.
  • Musicians' Union –
  • Publisher –
  • PRS –
  • Record producer –
  • Record label –
  • Record distributor –
  • Tour promoter –
  • Road crew ("roadies") –
  • Performance rights organisation –

Music theory

Music theory

Elements of music

Elements of music –

  • Pitch –
  • Scale –
  • Mode –
  • Chord –
  • Dynamics (music) –
  • Articulation –
  • Texture –
  • Consonance and dissonance –
  • Expression –
  • Harmony –
  • Melody –
  • Musical form –
  • Notation –
  • Rhythm –
  • Timbre –

Musicology

Musicology –

Music education

Music education –

  • Music lessons –

Music and politics

Music and politics –

Music organizations

  • Musicians' Union (UK)
  • Sony Music Entertainment
  • International Music Council
  • International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
  • Australian Recording Industry Association

Music publications

Psychology of music

Psychology of music

See also

External links




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