music performance
Playing for audiences
A music performance is the live presentation of music to an audience—a concert, recital, or show.
The term emphasizes the act of performing rather than the music itself: Her music performance at the festival was unforgettable.
In academic contexts, music performance is a field of study focused on instrumental or vocal technique rather than composition or theory.
- jam sessionInformal improvisational music gathering
- accompanistOne who plays alongside
- backing vocalsSecondary vocal parts
- applauseCollective hand-clapping approval
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
drum solo · opera · concert · opening act · front row · articulation · soloist · dynamics · bandleader · sing-along · setlist · dress rehearsal · live streaming · encore · stage fright · tempo · instrumentalist · recital
- videosvideos, clip, clips, video clip, films
- school eventsgraduation, commencement, graduation day, graduation ceremony, kindergarten graduation
- music educationpiano method, teaching methods, curricula, teacher guides, pedagogy
- music majorscomposition, conducting, accompanying, pedagogy
- sound artsound art, sound design, sound poetry, soundscape, soundscapes
music performancerecording
Captured audio or video
studio recording · playback · canned music · lip-syncing · backing track
music performancemusic appreciation
Study of listening well
passive listening · spectating · spectatorship · music composition · rehearsal
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