articulation - Directions to a performer typically through symbols and icons on a musical score that indicate characteristics of the attack, duration, and decay.

bar - Lines drawn perpendicularly across the staff to divide it into measures. The
term also means measure in common usage, but the bar is strictly the line itself,
and not the measure it defines.

cadence - A stylized close in music which divides the music into periods or brings
it to a full conclusion.

chords - The sounding of two or more notes (usually at least three) simultaneously.

clef - A symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to denote which notes are
indicated by the lines and spaces.

cymbal - A percussion instrument made of a circular brass plate.

diatonic - Proceeding in the order of the octave based on five tones (steps) and
two semitones (half steps).

drum kit - A drummer in a rock or jazz band usually plays a "kit" (sometimes
referred to as a drum set) or a specific group of untuned percussion instruments.

text editor - The term editor is commonly used to refer to a text editor, which is
a software program that allows users to create or manipulate plain text.

eighth note - A note having the time duration of one eighth of the time duration of
a whole note.

enharmonic - The phenomenon that two separate pitch notations stand for the same
sound. For example, the enharmonic spelling of F sharp is G flat. Both represent
the same pitch frequency.

fifth interval - An interval of five diatonic degrees, counting the first and last
degree, for example, a fifth above C would be G.

genre - Style or manner. In music, a unique category of composition with
similar style, form, emotion, or subject.

half note - A note that has half the duration of a whole note.

interval - The distance between two pitches.

key - A specific scale or series of notes defining a particular tonality.

kick drum - A pedal operated bass drum usually found as part of a drum kit (drum
set) played by a single musician in a rock, jazz, or other popular style ensemble.

unrolled loops - Loop unrolling is a loop transformation technique that helps to
optimize the execution time of a program. We basically remove or reduce iterations.

measure - American term, equivalent to the English term "bar ", signifying the
smallest metrical divisions of a composition, containing a fixed number of beats ,
marked off by vertical lines on the staff.

melody - A tune; a succession of tones comprised of mode, rhythm, and pitches so
arranged as to achieve musical shape, being perceived as a unity by the mind.

middle C - The name given to the note that has the pitch value of 261.63 Hz. It is
the note on the ledger line halfway between the bass and treble clef on the great
staff.

motif - A short tune or musical figure that characterizes and unifies a
composition.

note - A notational symbol used to represent the duration of a sound and, when
placed on a music staff, to also indicate the pitch of the sound.

polyrhythm - The use of several patterns or meters simultaneously, a technique used
in 20th century compositions.

quarter note - A note having the time duration of one fourth of the time duration
of a whole note.

search and replace - Alternatively referred to as Find and Replace or Replace is
the act of finding text and replacing the found text with an alternative.

rests - A symbol standing for a measured break in the sound with a defined
duration.

root - The tonic or fundamental note of a chord.

score - The entirety of the instrumental and vocal parts of a composition in
written form, placed together on a page in staves placed one below the other.

sequence (math) - A sequence is an ordered list containing successive items, or
functions for performing certain actions.

sequence (music) - A restatement of an idea or motif at a different pitch level
from the original.

seventh chord - A chord consisting of a root note, the third above the
fifth above the root, and the seventh above the root.

sixteenth note - A note having the time duration of one sixteenth of the time
duration of a whole note.

snare drum - A drum common in orchestral, band, and jazz music with two drum heads.
It is named after the "snares" or strings stretched across the lower drum head.

snippet - Alternatively referred to as a code snippet, a snippet is a small portion
of text that is part of a larger set of programming code.

Sonny Rollins Omnibook - The Sonny Rollins Omnibook celebrates the bebop legend.

SQL - Short for Structured Query Language, SQL, ... was developed by Dr. Edgar F.
Codd at the IBM research center in 1974. Today, SQL has become the de facto
standard database language.

terminal - The terminal is an interface that allows you to access the command line.

text file - A text file is a computer file that only contains text and has no
special formatting.

timbre - The quality of a sound; that component of a tone that causes different
instruments (for example a guitar and a violin) to sound different from each other
while they are both playing the same note.

time signature - A symbol placed at the left side of the staff indicating the meter
of the composition.

tonality - The principal of organization of a composition around a tonic based upon
a major or minor scale.

tone - The particular sound of an instrument or voice, as well as the performer's
particular coloring of that sound.

tonic - The note upon which a scale or key is based.

transcriber - The person who made the transcription.

Transcribing music means writing down what you hear when you listen to a song or piece.

triplet - Three notes of equal length that are to be performed in the duration of
two notes of equal length.

variable - A variable is a named unit of data that is assigned a value.

walking bass - In jazz, a walking bass usually moves by steps played on bass or
piano, with each note usually having the duration of a quarter note.

XML - XML is a software- and hardware-independent tool for storing and transporting
data.