Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
15 results found in music.
- Assistive Music Technology (AMT, Adaptive Music Technology)
- Hardware and software tools specifically designed or adapted to enable people with disabilities to create, perform, compose, or enjoy music. Examples include screen reader-compatible digital audio wor…
- Braille Music Notation (Braille Music, Braille Music Code)
- A tactile system for representing musical notation using the six-dot braille cell, encoding pitch, duration, dynamics, and other musical information for blind and visually impaired musicians. Unlike s…
- Digital Musical Instrument (DMI, Electronic Musical Instrument)
- A musical instrument that generates or controls sound through digital technology rather than purely acoustic means. Digital musical instruments separate the physical interface (how the player interact…
- Digital Sheet Music (Electronic Sheet Music)
- Musical scores displayed on electronic devices such as tablets, computers, or head-mounted displays rather than printed on paper. Digital sheet music offers accessibility advantages over print includi…
- Large-Print Notation (Large-Print Music, Enlarged Music Notation)
- Sheet music that has been enlarged or reformatted with larger symbols and staves to improve readability for people with low vision. Large-print music notation requires a specialized conversion process…
- MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
- A technical standard for communication between electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices. MIDI transmits digital messages representing musical events like note-on, note-off,…
- Music Braille (Braille Music, Braille Music Notation)
- A tactile music notation system that uses combinations of braille dots to represent musical elements including pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo markings, and other performance instructions. Music brai…
- Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
- An interdisciplinary field focused on extracting, analyzing, and organizing information from music data. Music information retrieval encompasses tasks like automatic transcription, genre classificatio…
- MusicXML
- An open, XML-based standard format for representing Western musical notation, enabling the exchange of sheet music between different music notation software applications. MusicXML encodes the structur…
- Musicking
- A term coined by musicologist Christopher Small to describe music as an activity or process rather than a thing. Musicking encompasses all participation in a musical performance—playing, listening, da…
- Polyphonic (Polyphony)
- In music, the simultaneous combination of two or more independent melodic lines or voices. Polyphonic music is notated on multiple staves that must be read together, presenting a particular challenge …
- Score Reading
- The act of interpreting and following a musical score, typically referring to the reading of classical or polyphonic music where multiple parts or voices must be tracked simultaneously. Score reading …
- Sheet Music (Musical Score, Written Music)
- A printed or digital document that uses musical notation to represent a musical composition, showing pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and other performance instructions through standardized symbols on a staff…
- Sight-Reading (Sight Reading)
- The ability to read and perform music from a written score for the first time, without prior practice or memorization. Sight-reading requires simultaneously decoding musical notation and executing it …
- Staff Notation (Stave Notation, Standard Music Notation)
- The conventional Western system for writing music using five horizontal lines (a staff or stave) on which notes are placed at different vertical positions to indicate pitch, with various symbols for r…