Here is a Composer's Musical Dictionary to use as a study guide for the vocabulary of our musical language.

This flashcard set will help you learn the most important terms in music.

Dynamics - piano (soft), forte (loud/strong), mezzo- (prefix meaning "medium"), -issimo (suffix meaning "extremely" or "very"), examples: Mezzo-forte (medium loud), pianissimo (extremely soft)

Tempo

Texture

Musical form

Harmony- Major (bright, hopeful), Minor (darker, sad), Dissonant (by degree of tension), Consonant (release of tension, resonating harmonically well), Diatonic (scale based with natural sounding Tonic, Dominant and SubDominant functions, Chromatic (not scale based, and a less definite sense of "tonic functions")

Balance - can refer to relative strength of opposing forces in any dimension of music, but most commonly to dynamics between parts or recorded tracks.

Foreground/ middleground/background - mixing levels that enhance the depth of our final mix along with right to left pan.