Timbre

Timbre -The quality of a musical tone that distinguishes voices and instruments.

Phrase

Phrase - A small section of a composition comprising a musical thought. Comparable to a sentence in language.

Forte

Forte - to play loud

Romantic

Romantic -Relating to the nineteenth-century musical period characterized by subjectivity on the part of the composer, emotionalism in music, longer musical forms, and richer harmonies.

Intermezzo

Intermezzo- a short musical compostition, as between main divisions of an extended musical work.

humbuckers

Humbucker - pickup on a guitar. Unlike the single coil pickups, it is fatter. To see a picture of some humbucker pickups, look at some Fenders and some Gibsons. They are located right under the strings near the bridge.

Chord

Chord -Three or more tones combined and sounded simultaneously

Slur

Slur-A curved line drawn over two or more notes of different pitches, indicating that they are to be executed in a smoothly connected manner without a break.

Absolute Pitch

Absolute pitch- 1. the exact pitch of a tone in terms of vibrations per second 2. the ability to sing or recognize the sound of a tone.

Just Intonation

Just Intonation-any system of tuning in which all of the intervals can be represented by whole-number frequency ratios

Acapella

acapella-without instrumental accompaniment

Distortion

distortion - check out this page for a great definition of distortion. I couldn´t explain it half as well.

Distortion

Mezzo forte

Mezzo forte-Moderately loud

cacaphony

cacaphony-harsh discordant sound