| Sentence | DEFINITION |
| Parallel Period | DEFINITION |
| Contrasting Period | DEFINITION |
| AABA | DEFINITION |
| Rounded Binary | DEFINITION |
| Binary | DEFINITION |
| Ternary | DEFINITION |
| Through-composed | DEFINITION |
| Strophic | DEFINITION |
| Popular Verse-Chorus | DEFINITION |
| Verse-Refrain | DEFINITION |
| Rondo | DEFINITION |
| Major | DEFINITION |
| Minor | DEFINITION |
| Pentatonic | DEFINITION |
| Modal | DEFINITION |
| Atonality | DEFINITION |
| Serialism | DEFINITION |
| Octatonic | DEFINITION |
| Whole-Tone | DEFINITION |
| Quartal/Quintal Harmony | DEFINITION |
| Transposing Instruments | DEFINITION |
| Simple | DEFINITION |
| Simple Meter with Non-quarter-note beat | DEFINITION |
| Compound | DEFINITION |
| Compound Meter with non-dotted-quarter-note beat | DEFINITION |
| Asymmetrical | DEFINITION |
| Mixed Meter | DEFINITION |
| Anacrusis | DEFINITION |
| Syncopation | DEFINITION |
| Hemiola | DEFINITION |
| Triplets | DEFINITION |
| Across the beat triplets | DEFINITION |
| Ostinato | DEFINITION |
| Monophony | DEFINITION |
| Homophony | DEFINITION |
| Chorale Style Homophony | DEFINITION |
| Polyphony | DEFINITION |
| Heterophony | DEFINITION |
| Aleatory | DEFINITION |
| Canon | DEFINITION |
| Call and Response | DEFINITION |
| Mediant Chords | DEFINITION |
| Cadential 6/4 | DEFINITION |
| Other 6/4 | DEFINITION |
| Dominant Seventh | DEFINITION |
| Other Seventh Chords | DEFINITION |
| Secondary Dominant | DEFINITION |
| Secondary Leading Tone | DEFINITION |
| Reinterpreted Diminished Seventh Chords | DEFINITION |
| N6 | DEFINITION |
| Augmented 6 | DEFINITION |
| CTº7 | DEFINITION |
| Extended Chords | DEFINITION |
| Added Tone Chords | DEFINITION |
| Tone Clusters | DEFINITION |
| Borrowed Chords/Modal Mixture | DEFINITION |
| Subtonic Chord (bVII) | DEFINITION |
| Direct Modulation | DEFINITION |
| Pivot Chord Modulation | DEFINITION |
| Harmonic Sequence | DEFINITION |
| Phrase Model | DEFINITION |
| Descending Tetrachord in Bass | DEFINITION |
| ii-V-I | DEFINITION |
| Four Chord Loop | DEFINITION |
| Half Cadence | DEFINITION |
| Imperfect Authentic Cadence | DEFINITION |
| Perfect Authentic Cadence | DEFINITION |
| Deceptive Cadence | DEFINITION |
| Plagal Cadence | DEFINITION |
| Phrygian Half Cadence | DEFINITION |
| Double Neighbor Figure | DEFINITION |
| Passing Tones | DEFINITION |
| Chromatic Passing Tones | DEFINITION |
| Complete Neighbor Tones | DEFINITION |
| Chromatic Neighbor Tones | DEFINITION |
| Incomplete Neighbor Tones | DEFINITION |
| Appoggiatura | DEFINITION |
| Raised Leading Tone | DEFINITION |
| Suspension | DEFINITION |
| Anticipation | DEFINITION |