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The idiophones are the percussion group of musical instruments comprised of elastic material capable of generating sound vibrations.
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Imeneo is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel anonymously adapted from Stampiglia's 1723 Imeneo during 1738 to 1740 and first produced in London in 1740.
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In music, imitation is one of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition by means of the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voices.
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In music, an imperfect cadence is one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord.
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In music, imperfect consonances are chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth.
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In music an imperfect interval is an interval a semitone less than perfect; as, for example an imperfect fifth.
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In music an impromptu is a piece composed or played at first thought, or a composition in the style of an extempore piece.
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The improperia is a series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of Christ with his people. It is sung on the morning of Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual.
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In music the term infinite describes certain forms of the canon which are capable of endless repetition, being so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
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In music an inflection is a change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice. In chanting, an inflection is a departure from the monotone, or reciting note.
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In music an interlude is a short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama. In church music, an interval is a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
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Intermezzo is a musical term for an interlude.
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In music an interval is the difference in pitch between any two tones.
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In music, to intonate means to sound the tones of the musical scale, such as to practice the sol-fa. The term also describes the act of modulating the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy.
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The Ionic mode was an ancient musical mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
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In music, irrelative chords are those having no common tone.
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In music the isotonic system is a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is tempered alike, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.
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It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary is a song written and composed by Jack Judge in 1911, which became famous after it was adopted asa marching song by British troops setting off for the Great War in 1914. The song has nothing to do with war, but tells the story of an Irishman's longing to be with his sweetheart.
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