conductorships
plural of conductorship

conductour
Obsolete form of conductor.

conductours
plural of conductour

conjunto
A small Latin American musical ensemble, mainly in Mexico and Cuba.
The style of music played by such groups.

conjuntos
plural of conjunto

consort
The spouse of a monarch.
A husband, wife, companion or partner.
An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
A ship accompanying another.
Association or partnership.
A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.

consorts
plural of consort

contra
Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.

contradance
Alternative spelling of contra dance.

contradances
plural of contradance

contradanse
Alternative spelling of contra dance.

contradanses
plural of contradanse

contrafact
A new musical composition built out of an already existing one, most often a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. An important part of the development of bebop. Contrafacts are not to be confused with musical quotations, which borrow rhythms or melodies from an existing composition.

contrafacta
plural of contrafactum

contrafacts
plural of contrafact

contrafactum
The substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music.
The use of a secular melody with a religious text.

contralti
plural of contralto

contralto
The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.

contraltos
plural of contralto

contras
plural of contra

contredance
Alternative spelling of contra dance.

contredances
plural of contredance

coordinome
A punched tape based metronome for polymetric music.

cornamute
Obsolete form of cornemuse.

cornamutes
plural of cornamute

cornemuse
A French musical instrument very similar to bagpipes.

cornemuses
plural of cornemuse

cornet
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
A kind of organ stop.
A hollow horn-like growth.

cornets
plural of cornet

cornett
An early horn wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Not to be confused with later brass instrument.

cornetti
plural of cornetto

cornetto
A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
An Italian pastry, a kind of croissant.

cornettos
plural of cornetto

cornetts
plural of cornett

cornicyll
Synonym of pibgorn.

cornicylls
plural of cornicyll

cornmuse
Archaic form of cornemuse.

cornmuses
plural of cornmuse

cornopean
A large valved horn or trumpet, similar to the orchestral cornet (cornet-à-piston).

cornopeans
plural of cornopean

corrasion
The diminution of wealth, etc., such as through unanticipated expenditure.
The wearing away of surface material.
Corrading (erosion by abrasion) caused by such as: wind-blown or water-borne sand, stream-borne or glacier-borne stones, or collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.

corrasions
plural of corrasion

corrugaphone
Synonym of whirly tube (“musical instrument”).

corrugaphones
plural of corrugaphone

cottonpicking
Alternative form of cotton-picking.

couesnophone
A free-reed musical instrument shaped like a saxophone and sounding like a cross between a harmonica and an accordion.

couesnophones
plural of couesnophone

counterdance
Alternative form of contra dance.

counterdances
plural of counterdance

counterentries
plural of counterentry

counterentry
Synonym of contra (“entry or account that cancels another entry or account”).

counterfugue
A fugue in which the answer or imitation to the melody is played in an inverse manner.

counterfugues
plural of counterfugue

counterline
A secondary melody that contrasts with the main melody and is played at the same time.
A line of entrenchment made against an enemy's lines.

counterlines
plural of counterline

countermelodies
plural of countermelody

countermelody
a secondary or supplemental melody played simultaneously with the primary melody.

countersubject
The secondary melody in contrapuntal music.

countersubjects
plural of countersubject

countertenor
An adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range.
A male singing voice far higher than the typical male vocal range.
A part or section performing a countermelody against the tenor or main part.

countertenors
plural of countertenor

countertheme
A theme that complements or opposes another theme.

counterthemes
plural of countertheme

cramble
A branch that has been broken and blown onto the ground by the wind.

crawlies
Fear, anxiety.

cromorne
A French woodwind instrument resembling the crumhorn.

cromornes
plural of cromorne

crotale
A percussion instrument of archaic origin, resembling a metal castanet or cymbal.

crotales
plural of crotale

crouth
Alternative form of crwth.

crouths
plural of crouth

crowth
Alternative form of crwth.

crowths
plural of crowth

crumhorn
Any of several related simple woodwind instruments having a bent horn

crumhorns
plural of crumhorn

cruth
Alternative spelling of crwth.

cruths
plural of cruth

crwth
An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.

crwths
plural of crwth

cryogun
A cryogenically-cooled electron gun

crystallophone
A percussion instrument similar to a xylophone, but with glass rather than wooden bars.

crystallophones
plural of crystallophone

cuarteto
An upbeat genre of music from Argentina, descended from Italian and Spanish dance ensembles.

cuatro
Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).

cuatros
plural of cuatro

cubcam
A camera, often in a zoo, usually monitoring the birth or early life of the cubs of a family of mammals.

cuica
A Brazilian friction drum often used in samba music.

cuicas
plural of cuica

curl
A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
A curved stroke or shape.
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
The concave part of a breaking wave.

curlbar
Alternative spelling of curl bar.

curlbars
plural of curlbar

curls
plural of curl