This glossary is a part of my presentation to school about keyboard instruments, specifically about chordophones
aerophones
noun
A wind instrument.
Example: I play mostly aerophones.
sk: Aerofóny
baffle
noun
A device used to prevent the spreading of sound.
Example: The strings, made of brass (or brass and iron) are placed above the baffle.
sk: ozvučnica
baroque
noun
The Baroque is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Example: I don't like art from baroque.
sk: barok
bourgeois
adjective
A bourgeois person.
Example: It was not absent in almost any bourgeois house.
sk: meštiacky
brass reeds
noun
A piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes.
Example: They vibrate with the beat of brass reeds.
sk: mosadzné jazýčky
chordophones
noun
A stringed instrument.
Example: Playing different chordophones is really fun.
sk: Chordofóny
classicism
noun
The following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature, generally associated with harmony, restraint, and adherence to recognized standards of form and craftsmanship, especially from the Renaissance to the 18th century.
Example: The Venetian school was growing in strength with developments such as Giovanni Bellini's poetic CLASSICISM.
sk: klasicizmus
composing
verb
Write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry).
Example: Homer is looking back to an age of great men and heroic deeds, when he was COMPOSING his poetry at the end of the 'Dark Age' in Greece.
sk: skladanie
electrophones
noun
Any musical instrument in which sound is produced mainly by means of electricity.
Example: I love playing electrophones.
sk: Elektrofóny
fortissimo
noun
A passage marked to be performed very loudly.
Example: You have to play it in more fortissimo!
sk: fortissimo
harpsichord
noun
A keyboard instrument with horizontal strings which run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys.
Example: I used to play harpsichord.
sk: čembalo
idiophones
noun
An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
Example: I enjoy playing different idiophones.
sk: Idiofóny
instrument
noun
A device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
Example: Any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument.
sk: nástroj
keyboard
noun
A set of keys on a piano or similar musical instrument.
Example: I used to play keyboard instruments.
sk: klávesy
organ
noun
A large musical instrument having rows of pipes supplied with air from bellows (now usually electrically powered), and played using a keyboard or by an automatic mechanism.
Example: They were mainly used by organists to practice playing.
sk: organ
piano
noun
A large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed.
Example: I play the piano.
sk: klavír, pianino
renaissance
noun
The revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
Example: Before Shakespeare, RENAISSANCE dramatists were expected to comply with Aristotle's 'Three Unities'.
sk: renesancia
split bridge
phrase
A part of a musical instrument.
Example: In smaller pianos, both forms have a crossing of strings and a split bridge.
sk: delená kobylka
the resonance box
phrase
A resonant cavity or chamber in a musical instrument, designed to increase the sonority of its tone.
Example: Sounds of the piano are made in the resonance box.
sk: rezonančná skrinka
vibrato
noun
A rapid, slight variation in pitch in singing or playing some musical instruments, producing a stronger or richer tone.