hornpipe
A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
Music played to the hornpipe dance

hornpipes
plural of hornpipe

hosaphone
A home-made musical instrument consisting of a length of garden hose with a funnel inserted at one end. It is played by blowing it in the manner of a trumpet.

hosaphones
plural of hosaphone

hosho
Either of a pair of gourds with seeds inside, used as musical instruments in Zimbabwe.

hotchiku
An end-blown vertical bamboo flute used in traditional Japanese music, similar to the shakuhachi.

huehuetl
An ancient Mesoamerican percussion instrument, an upright tubular drum made from a wooden body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base, with skin stretched over the top, and played by hand or with a mallet.

huehuetls
plural of huehuetl

huiringua
A slit drum made from a hollow log, of Mexican origin, struck with a pair of wood mallets.

hulusi
A wind instrument from China and the Shan State.

humidicrib
An incubator for newborn babies that regulates temperature and humidity.

humidicribs
plural of humidicrib

huqin
Any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music.

hydraulicon
An ancient musical instrument, the water organ.

hydraulicons
plural of hydraulicon

hydraulophone
Any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air.

hydraulophones
plural of hydraulophone

hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica
The glass harmonica.

hyperensembles
plural of hyperensemble

hyperinstrument
Any musical instrument whose output is transformed by computer control

hyperinstruments
plural of hyperinstrument

hyperlens
A nanostructured metamaterial that produces magnified images of objects smaller than the wavelength of the light used

hypocenter
Alternative spelling of hypocentre.

hypocenters
plural of hypocenter

hypocentre
The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.
The point on the surface below an atmospheric explosion; ground zero

ictus
The pulse.
A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.

ictuses
plural of ictus

ictusses
plural of ictus

idiochord
Any musical instrument whose "string" is made from the same material as its resonating body.

idiochords
plural of idiochord

idiophone
Any musical instrument that produces its sound by its own vibration (without any strings or membranes).

idiophones
plural of idiophone

idiophonist
Someone who plays an idiophone musical instrument.

idiophonists
plural of idiophonist

immunoswabs
plural of immunoswab

incalmo
The glasswork technique of joining together two separately blown glass bubbles while they are still hot.

inductorium
An induction coil.

inharmonicities
plural of inharmonicity

instrumentalist
One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist.
An adherent of instrumentalism.

instrumentalists
plural of instrumentalist

instrumentist
A performer on a musical instrument.

instrumentists
plural of instrumentist

intabulation
an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.

intabulations
plural of intabulation

interpolation
An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.
The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.

interpolations
plural of interpolation

intertonic
A sound occurring between stressed syllables; as the /har/ in philharmonic
A sound occurring between a stressed syllable and the beginning or end of a word; as the o in Deborah.

intertonics
plural of intertonic

intonarumori
A group of experimental musical instruments invented by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo in the early 20th century.

intonation
The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.

intonations
plural of intonation

ipu
A percussion instrument made from hollowed gourds, often used to provide a beat for hula dancing.

ipus
plural of ipu

isagoges
plural of isagoge

isitolotolo
An African musical instrument, a form of Jew's harp.

jabisen
Alternative spelling of jamisen.

jabisens
plural of jabisen

jamisen
An archaic stringed instrument of Japanese origin, traditionally made from snakeskin and characteristic of the Ryukyu islands; it is the ancestor of the shamisen.

jamisens
plural of jamisen

janggu
A type of percussion instrument used in traditional Korean music.

jawboneist
Someone who plays a jawbone as a musical instrument.

jawboneists
plural of jawboneist

jawbonist
Alternative spelling of jawboneist.

jawbonists
plural of jawbonist

jazzophone
A saxophone-shaped double-belled brass instrument with a trumpet-like mouthpiece.

jazzophones
plural of jazzophone

jidderbug
Misspelling of jitterbug.

jinghu
A two-stringed bamboo musical instrument played with a bow, the smallest and highest-pitched in the huqin family of traditional Chinese instruments, associated mainly with the tradition of Beijing opera.

jitterbug
A nervous or jittery person.
A jazz musician or aficionado.
An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).

jitterbugs
plural of jitterbug

joged
traditional Indonesian art performance (dance, folk songs, etc.) commonly found in Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese culture accompanied by gamelan instrument and ensemble.
Alternative form of joget.

joget
classical Javanese dance accompanied by the gamelan instrument and ensemble.
Alternative form of joged.

jublag
A high-pitched metallophone used in gamelan music.

kabosy
A wooden box-shaped guitar-like musical instrument, most commonly with six strings and characterized by the use of partial frets, originating in traditional Malagasy music.

kacapi
A box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking, originating in traditional Sundanese music, especially tembang sunda and pantun sunda.

kacapis
plural of kacapi

kaen
Synonym of khene.

kaens
plural of kaen

kagok
A genre of Korean vocal music for mixed female and male voices. Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments

kamancha
Alternative spelling of kamancheh.

kamanchas
plural of kamancha

kamancheh
A long-necked stringed instrument (a spike fiddle) with a bowl-shaped body, traditionally featuring three silk strings but now more often four metal ones, played with a bow, common among the peoples of the Caucasus, Anatolia and the Near East.

kamanchehs
plural of kamancheh

kamencheh
Alternative spelling of kamancheh.

kamenchehs
plural of kamencheh

kanon
Synonym of monochord (used mainly in reference to ancient Greek music)

kanons
plural of kanon

kanoon
Alternative spelling of qanun.

kanoons
plural of kanoon

kantela
Alternative form of kantele.

kantelas
plural of kantela