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| academy |
An academy is a school. Usually an academy is a private school. People have to pay to go to a private school. Some academies focus on a particular type of thing, such as art, music, military training, or science. Academies give special classes for these things. Some academies are regular schools for school children, and some academies give classes for adult students, especially in things like music, drama, or art. |
| accompaniment |
a part of a piece of music that supports or provides background for another, more important part. [1/2 definitions] |
| accompany |
to play or sing music as part of the performance of another. [1/3 definitions] |
| accordion |
An accordion is an instrument for playing music. You hold an accordion in your arms to play it. It has black and white keys like a piano, but sound is made when air is forced through it. |
| aesthetic |
having to do with beauty or art, including literature, dance, music, painting, drawing, and sculpture. |
| album |
a musical recording that is made up of a few or several pieces of music. [1/2 definitions] |
| Apollo |
the god of light, music, poetry, and healing in Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo was also the god of prophecy. People travelled to his shrine at Delphi to ask questions about future events. |
| arrangement |
a piece of music that has been changed to fit a particular type of performance. [1/5 definitions] |
| art |
Art is anything that people make to create beauty or to share ideas and feelings in a different and special way. Painting, poetry, music, and film are some kinds of art. |
| artist |
a person who is good at painting, music, writing, or any other art. [1/2 definitions] |
| audition |
An audition is a short performance that someone gives to just a few people to show how well they can act, dance, sing, or play an instrument. When someone does an audition, they hope that the people watching will choose them to be in their play, movie, or something like that. Sometimes people have to give an audition in order to be part of a musical group or to get into a special school. For example, if they want to get into a school of music or dance, they might have to give an audition. |
| ballet |
a performance of such dance, with music, for an audience. [1/2 definitions] |
| band1 |
a group formed to play music. [1/3 definitions] |
| banjo |
A banjo is a musical instrument with strings. You hold a banjo like a guitar, but it has a different sound, shape, and way of playing. A banjo has a flat, round body and uses four or five strings. The banjo is often played in American folk music along with guitars and fiddles. |
| bar1 |
a vertical line that marks the beginning or end of a measure of music, or the music between two of these lines. [1/10 definitions] |
| bass1 |
the part of music that requires the lowest range of pitch, or sounds made in the low range. [2/3 definitions] |
| bassoon |
A bassoon is a kind of instrument for playing music. It is a tall instrument and can play some very low notes. The main part of its body is a long wooden tube. A smaller, metal tube is attached to it, and this has a part that you blow through to make sounds. |
| baton |
A baton is a thin rod or stick that a music conductor uses when leading an orchestra. [1/3 definitions] |
| beat |
When you hit something again and again in a way that repeats, then you are making a beat. In music, we often hear the beat of a drum. [1/7 definitions] |
| bluegrass |
country music of the southern United States played on instruments that have strings, such as the banjo, fiddle, and mandolin. [1/2 definitions] |
| blues |
(used with a singular or plural verb) a style of sad-sounding music with roots in African American folk music. Jazz and rock music developed from the blues. [1/2 definitions] |
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