Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
9 results found in Music Accessibility.
- Deaf Music (Deaf musicality, Music in Deaf culture)
- Music as experienced, created, and culturally interpreted by d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals and communities. Deaf music encompasses a multimodal, spatio-temporal engagement with rhythm, vibrat…
- Drake Music Project (Drake Music, DMP)
- A UK charity founded in 1988 that facilitates music-making for physically disabled people through technology. The Drake Music Project runs workshops using adapted music technology — including MIDI con…
- MIDI Controller (MIDI Input Device)
- A hardware device that generates MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) messages to control music software or sound modules without being a traditional musical instrument. MIDI controllers includ…
- Music Visualization (Music visualisers, Visual music)
- The representation of musical content — pitch, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, melody, lyrics, or emotion — through visual rather than auditory channels. Visualizations range from abstract mappings of audio…
- Musical Emotion (Music-Induced Emotion, Emotional Response to Music)
- The emotional content perceived in, or felt in response to, a piece of music, typically analysed along dimensions such as valence and arousal or via categorical labels (cheerful, tense, calm, sad, ene…
- Open Sound Control (OSC)
- An open, network-based protocol for communication between computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices, developed by Matthew Wright and Adrian Freed (1997). OSC sends human-readable add…
- Scat Singing (Scatting, Vocal scat)
- A jazz-rooted vocal technique in which a singer improvises melodic and rhythmic lines using nonsense syllables (such as 'doo', 'bop', 'ba', 'da', 'shoo') rather than words. Scat lets the voice functio…
- Song Signing (Signed Song, Sign-Singing, Song Sign)
- A performative art form in which song lyrics are interpreted in a sign language (most commonly ASL) alongside body movement, facial expression, rhythm, and spatial use, so that the performer simultane…
- Valence-Arousal Model (VA Model, Circumplex Model, Valence-Arousal Space)
- A two-dimensional model of affect, introduced by Russell (1980), that represents emotional states along two orthogonal axes: valence (pleasant versus unpleasant) and arousal (activated versus deactiva…