Musical terminology
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Where hyperpop came from and who actually coined the label
Why does a cheap violin sound so different from a good one
Why does a conductor need tempo words no metronome can match
What exactly does forte ask a player to do
The word timbre trips up almost everyone who first meets it
Genre names borrowed from theory get stretched until they mean nothing
Why do we keep bolting core onto the end of every new genre
Standard notation terms predate the instruments we now play them on
The internet keeps minting slang for music faster than dictionaries can keep up
A glossary of music terms would fill a shelf and still miss regional words
Ostinato and riff are not the same thing and composers care
Songs written in a minor key are not automatically sad
People misuse crescendo to mean any big moment in a song
The difference between a composer and a songwriter is not just the paycheck
Legato means slightly different things on a violin and on a piano
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