| A | B |
| performance | play to audience |
| melody | main tune |
| chords | two or more notes played together |
| bass | the deepest line of a piece |
| structure | the sections that make up a piece |
| practise | to prepare a piece by learning and repeating |
| expression | when loud/soft, fast/slow concepts are added |
| rehearsal | when you practise with others |
| recording | when a piece is captured for audio or video media |
| programmatic | when it tells a story without words |
| dynamics | loud or soft |
| tempo | fast or slow |
| cliché | a musical stereotype |
| tonailty | overall pleasant mood set by a set of notes |
| atonality | overall unpleasant mood set by a set of notes |
| time line | a way of planning events in sequence |
| audience | the people who hear and respond to music |
| jingle | a memorable short piece of music often with a slogan |
| metre | how many beats grouped together in the pulse |
| chord sequence | a series of chords which are used in order |
| cadence | the movement from one chord to another at the end of a sequence |