Music Standards Glossary.pdf

The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards- Glossary of Terms: Music provides definitions for various music-related terms. Key terms include:
- Musical forms: AB (binary form), ABA (ternary form)
- Ability: natural aptitude in specific skills and processes
- Academic vocabulary: words used in academic dialogue and text
- Analog tools: non-digital musical instruments and tools
- Analysis: examining music's structure and context
- Articulation: the way musical tones are connected, separated, or accented
- Artistic literacy: knowledge and understanding required to participate in the Arts
- Atonality: music without a tonic or key center
- Audiate: hearing and comprehending sounds in one's head
- Audience etiquette: social behavior at musical performances
- Beat: the underlying steady pulse in music
- Benchmark: a pre-established definition of an achievement level
- Binary form: a musical form consisting of two contrasting sections
- Body percussion: using the human body to create percussive sounds
- Bordun: an accompaniment created by sounding two tones continuously
- Chant: rhythmic recitation of rhymes or poems without a sung melody
- Chart: a jazz or popular music score with a melody and chord changes
- Chord progression: a series of chords sounding in succession
- Collaboratively: working together on a common musical task or goal
- Complex formal structure: a musical form with significant expansion and development of materials
- Composer: one who creates music compositions
- Composition: an original piece of music that can be repeated
- Compositional devices: tools used to create or organize a composition
- Compositional procedures: techniques used to develop musical ideas
- Compositional techniques: approaches used to manipulate and refine musical elements
- Concepts, music: understandings or generalized ideas about music
- Connection: relationships among artistic ideas, personal meaning, and external context
- Context: the environment surrounding music, influencing understanding and providing meaning
- Craftsmanship: the degree of skill and ability exhibited by a creator or performer
- Create: conceiving and developing new artistic ideas into a work.