S

Music Terms and Definitions Beginning with S

Browse music terms beginning with the letter S. Find chords, scales, intervals, piano techniques and music theory concepts explained in simple English.

Salsa
Samba
Sample
Sample Rate
Sampler
Scale
Scale Degree
Scat Singing
Score
Second
Second Inversion Chord
Secondary Dominant
Segno
Semitone
Sequence
Sequencer
Session Musician
Setlist
Seventh
Seventh Chord
Seventh Chord
Sextuplet
Sharp
Shuffle
Sideman
Sight Reading
Singer-Songwriter
Sixteenth Note
Sixteenth Rest
Sixth
Slap Bass
Slide
Snare Drum
Solo
Soloist
Song Form
Song Structure
Songwriter
Soul
Sound
Soundtrack
Staccatissimo
Staccato
Staff
Stem
Stereo
Stomp
Stop Time
Straight Eighth Notes
Stride Piano
Strong and Weak Beats
Strophic Form
Subdivision
Subdominant
Subdominant Substitution
Substitute Chord
Subwoofer
Suspended Chord (Sus Chord)
Suspended Fourth Chord (Sus4)
Suspension
Sustain Pedal
Swing
Syncopation
Synthesizer