Glossary
Music glossary
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- white noise
- Sounds containing every audible frequency at approximately the same intensity.
- whole step (whole tone)
- An interval equal to two half steps.
- whole-tone scale
- An exotic non-Western scale employed by Debussy and other Western composers.
- woodwinds
- A family of instruments, constructed largely of wood, that produce sound by means of blowing air across an aperture or through a vibrating reed.
- word painting
- A technique that became prominent in the Renaissance, in which musical figures are used to represent specific images-falling, sighing, weeping, rejoicing, and so forth.