"musical terminology" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the language and jargon used to describe music and performance. For example, someone who is new to playing guitar might take a lesson to learn some of the musical terminology and techniques used in their favorite songs.
(Mr. Ashkenazy rehearses the orchestra in English, when, that is, the musical terminology itself is not Italian).
Levitin might be surprised at the extent to which the musical terminology he does employ is obscure to the average reader in this country.
Include any and all musical terminology as appropriate to the works and provide definitions of those terms in a glossary at the end of the paper.
Music Humanities with Professor Ashley Nail; Nail knows how to explain musical terminology in the most memorable way and always initiates meaningful and thought-provoking discussions.
This belief in music as a deeply felt and personal expression is one reason Armstrong avoided using musical terminology when speaking about his work and it's one reason he said that he disliked bop (like other cooler, more modern forms of jazz), complaining that it "doesn't come from the heart," that it's "all just flash".
Yet then they go on to describe their choices vividly, like J H from Boston, who, after acknowledging not being "well versed in musical terminology," pinpoints a passage in the slow movement of Schubert's late Piano Sonata in A (D. 959) when the sad theme returns, this time with the second beat now "split into triplets," a clear description of a consoling musical touch.
Not to be out done, another work is a "musical ecosystem (environmental terminology is very hip these days) of electronic sounds, rooted nevertheless in an acoustic source".
The articles in Grove are scholarly, signed articles which provide a wealth of information about composers, performers, regions, musical forms and genres, and terminology.
One old standby for any musician's name is to make a reference to a musical concept or piece of terminology.
Langer was accused of having somewhat weakened her argument through a vacillating terminology, and she described the musical symbol as "unconsummated" because of its ambiguity.
For an artist who was a horn player in his youth and has longstanding ties to the jazz world, Mr. Wimberley has no trouble forging strong links between musical and visual art, which share much terminology.
