canarding
Playing a wind instrument in a way to produce a sound imitating a duck.

caneworking
A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.

cantaro
A clayen pot used as a percussion instrument in South America.

cantaros
plural of cantaro

cantilena
A vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style.

cantilenas
plural of cantilena

canto
One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
The treble or leading melody.
The designated division of a song.

cantos
plural of canto

canun
Alternative form of qanun.

canuns
plural of canun

capelle
The private orchestra or band of a prince or church.

capellen
plural of capelle

capelles
plural of capelle

capellmeister
Alternative form of kapellmeister.

capellmeisters
plural of capellmeister

capotasto
A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering

capotastos
plural of capotasto

carnix
Alternative spelling of carnyx.

carnixes
plural of carnix

carnyces
plural of carnyx

carnyx
A bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.

carnyxes
plural of carnyx

castagnet
Obsolete form of castanet.

castanet
A single handheld percussion instrument consisting of a pair of concave shells or shell-shaped parts joined on one edge by string.

castanets
A percussion instrument (idiophone) of Spanish origin, consisting of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by a string, held in the hand and used to produce clicking sounds; any hand-held percussion idiophone that can be played with the fingers, such as bones or spoons.

catcall
A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
A shout, whistle, or comment of a harassingly sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.

catcalls
plural of catcall

caxirola
A Brazilian percussion instrument consisting of a closed plastic basket with a flat bottom filled with small synthetic particles. It is based on the caxixi.

caxirolas
plural of caxirola

celempung
A plucked string instrument used in Javanese gamelan music.

celempungs
plural of celempung

celesta
A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.

celestas
plural of celesta

celeste
Alternative form of celesta (“musical instrument”).
An organ stop, deliberately slightly out of tune to give an undulating sound.
Bleu celeste.

celestes
plural of celeste

celli
plural of cello

cello
A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.

cellos
plural of cello

cembali
plural of cembalo

cembalist
An orchestral keyboard player; one who plays piano or harpsichord for an orchestra or ensemble.

cembalists
plural of cembalist

cembalo
A harpsichord.

cembalos
plural of cembalo

center
The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
A point on a triangle's plane that is in some sense in its middle.
A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A player in the middle of a playing area.
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
The set of those elements (of a given algebraic structure) that commute with every other element, usually denoted Z(G). In the case of (semi-)groups, it is required that they commute under the (semi-)group operation; in the case of rings and (Lie) algebras, under multiplication (i.e. the bracket for Lie algebras)

centers
plural of center

centerstage
Alternative form of center stage.

centonization
A theory about the composition of a melody or piece based on pre-existing melodic figures and formulas.

centonizations
plural of centonization

centra
plural of centrum

centre
Australia, British, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.

centrum
A centre.
The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.

cepstra
plural of cepstrum

cepstrum
The inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of a magnitude spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.

cervelas
Alternative form of cervelat.
Synonym of rackett (“musical instrument”).

cevian
A line from the vertex of a triangle to a point on the opposite side

chacarera
A genre of Argentinian and Bolivian folk music, a dance form played by contemporary musicians as soloists or in small ensembles of voice, guitar, violin and bombo drum.
A dance accompanying this music.

chacareras
plural of chacarera

chafage
Chafing; fretting and wear caused by rubbing.

chalumeau
A woodwind instrument which was the predecessor of the clarinet.
The lowest range of the clarinet, reaching up to written B♭ (B flat) above middle C.

chalumeaus
plural of chalumeau

chalumeaux
plural of chalumeau

chamfrets
plural of chamfret

chanter
One who chants or sings.
A priest who sings in a chantry.
The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
The hedge sparrow.
One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

chanters
plural of chanter

chantor
Alternative form of chanter (“religious sense”).

chantors
plural of chantor

chanzi
Alternative form of chanzy.

chanzis
plural of chanzi

chanzy
A three-stringed plucked lute of Tuvan origin, like a long-necked banjo with a skin head over a heart or kidney-shaped body.

chapelmaster
A director of music in a chapel, the musical director of a court and/or major church's choir and/or orchestra; often also a composer.

chapelmasters
plural of chapelmaster

charanga
A traditional ensemble of Cuban dance music
The genre of music they perform.

charangas
plural of charanga

charango
A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.

charangon
A type of large stringed instrument of the charango family, with a characteristically low pitch, originating in the traditional music of the Andean area.

charangons
plural of charangon

charangos
plural of charango

chello
Misspelling of cello.