Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Muscular Dystrophy (MD)
- A group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles. There are more than 30 types, including Duchenne, Becker, limb-girdle, and myotonic muscular…
- Museum Accessibility (Accessible Museums)
- The practice of designing museum experiences, exhibitions, programs, and physical spaces to be inclusive and usable by visitors with disabilities. Museum accessibility encompasses physical access (ram…
- Music Accessibility (Accessible Music, Musical Accessibility)
- The practice of making musical experiences — including listening, performing, composing, and learning — available to people with disabilities. Music accessibility encompasses a wide range of approache…
- 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 GenAI (Generative Music AI, AI Music Generation)
- Generative AI systems that produce musical output — melodies, full songs, instrumental accompaniment, or vocal tracks — from text prompts, seed audio, or structured parameters. Examples include Suno, …
- Music Haptics (Musical Haptics, Haptic Music)
- The use of touch-based feedback — including vibrations, textures, and force — to convey musical information such as pitch, tempo, timbre, articulation, dynamics, and rhythm. Music haptics draws on the…
- 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…
- Music Notation (Musical Notation, Sheet Music)
- A system of written symbols used to represent musical sounds, including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and other performance instructions. Standard visual music notation uses staff lines, notes, and other g…
- Music Notation Accessibility
- The practice of making written music scores perceivable and usable by musicians with visual impairments and other disabilities. This encompasses the creation of alternative formats like Braille Music,…
- Music Pedagogy (Music Education, Music Teaching)
- The theory and practice of teaching and learning music, including methods for instruction, curriculum design, and assessment. In accessibility contexts, music pedagogy for blind and low vision learner…
- Music Psychotherapy
- A form of music therapy that uses musical activities — songwriting, improvisation, lyric analysis, receptive listening — to address emotional, psychological, and relational concerns rather than sensor…
- Music Stand Accessibility
- The design and arrangement of music stands to accommodate the needs of musicians with disabilities, particularly those with low vision who must position enlarged scores or digital devices close to the…
- Music Therapy
- A clinical and evidence-based practice that uses music interventions to accomplish individualized therapeutic goals, including improving communication, social interaction, emotional expression, and mo…
- Music Visualisation (Music Visualization, Sound Visualisation, Audio Visualisation)
- The representation of musical or audio content through visual media such as drawings, animations, colour changes, or motion graphics. Music visualisation is an important accessibility strategy for dea…
- 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…
- Music-Induced Analgesia (music analgesia, music-based pain relief)
- The phenomenon by which listening to music reduces the subjective experience of pain. Research consistently shows that self-selected, personally meaningful music produces stronger analgesic effects th…
- 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…
- Musical Accessibility (Music Accessibility)
- The design and practice of making music creation, performance, learning, and appreciation available to people with disabilities. Musical accessibility spans multiple research communities including Hum…
- 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…
- 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…