F major
F major is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B♭, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative minor is D…
F minor
F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, and E♭. Its key signature consists of four flats. Its…
F-flat major
F-flat major (or the key of F-flat) is a key based on F♭, consisting of the pitches F♭, G♭, A♭, B♭♭, C♭, D♭, and E♭. Its key signature has…
F-sharp major
F-sharp major is a major scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯. Its key signature has six sharps. Its…
F-sharp minor
F-sharp minor is a minor scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, and E. Its key signature has three sharps. Its…
Fach
The German Fach system is a method of classifying singers, primarily opera singers, according to the range, weight, and color of their…
Facial disc
In ornithology, the facial disc is the concave collection of feathers on the face of some birds—most notably owls—surrounding the eyes.
Fade (audio engineering)
In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal. The term can also be used for film…
Fader creep
Fader creep is a colloquial term used in audio recording to describe a tendency for sound engineers to raise the gain of individual…
Fairchild 660
The Fairchild 660 is a tube-based single-channel audio compressor invented by Rein Narma and manufactured by the Fairchild Recording…
FAIST Anlagenbau GmbH
FAIST Anlagenbau GmbH is one of the biggest manufacturer of noise control facilities and aero-acoustic wind tunnel treatment.
Falset (music)
Falset is the latitude for a brasswind player's pitch-control of a harmonic by adjusting lip or air pressure. While only just sufficient…
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman is a series of six short compositions, or “parts” of one 25-minute composition, by Joan Tower.
Fanshawe College's Music Industry Arts program
The Music Industry Arts Program at Fanshawe College trains students for careers in the contemporary music industry. It was started in 1970…
Fast forward
To fast-forward is to move forwards through a recording at a speed faster than that at which it would usually be played, for example two…
Favete linguis!
"Favete linguis!" is a Latin phrase, which means "facilitate [the ritual acts] with your tongues” ("tongues" as the organ of speech). In…
Federal Aviation Act of 1958
The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 was an act of the United States Congress, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that created the…
Feedback suppressor
A feedback suppressor is an audio signal processing device which is used in the signal path in a live sound reinforcement system to…
Feliz Navidad (song)
"Feliz Navidad" is a Christmas song written and first recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano.
Fender Bandmaster
The Fender Bandmaster was a musical instrument amplifier made by Fender. It was introduced in 1953 and discontinued in 1974. Some early…
Fender Bandmaster Reverb
The Fender Bandmaster Reverb was a tube amplifier made by Fender. It was primarily a Silverface Bandmaster piggyback 'head' with the…
Fender Bassman
The Fender Bassman is a series of instrument amplifiers produced by Fender. Released in 1952, the Bassman was the industry's first…
Fender Blues Junior
The Blues Junior is a tube guitar amplifier introduced in 1995 by the Fender Musical Instrument Corporation. It is aimed at achieving the…
Fender Champ
The Fender Champ was a guitar amplifier made by Fender. It was introduced in 1948 and discontinued in 1982. An updated version was…
Fender Concert
The Fender Concert was a guitar amplifier made by Fender Musical Instruments. Its production can be split over 2 phases. The first of…
Fender Harvard
The Fender Harvard is a vacuum tube (valve) guitar amplifier made by Fender from 1955 to 1963. The Harvard appeared only in a tweed…
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
The Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is a guitar amplifier manufactured and sold by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. It was introduced in…
Fender Princeton
The Fender Princeton is a guitar amplifier made by Fender. It was introduced in 1946 and discontinued in 1979. After Fender introduced the…
Fender Super Reverb
The Fender Super Reverb is a guitar amplifier made by Fender. It was introduced in 1963 and was discontinued in 1982. The Super Reverb…
Fender Tremolux
The Fender Tremolux was a guitar amplifier made by Fender. It was introduced in the summer of 1955 with a rated power output of 15 watts…
Fender Twin
The Fender Twin and Twin Reverb are guitar amplifiers made by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Twin was introduced in 1952, two…
Fender Vibrasonic
The Fender Vibrasonic was an amplifier made by Fender. It was debuted as the first of the new-model Fender amps of the 1960s, with new…
Ferrite (magnet)
A ferrite is one of a family of iron-oxide-containing magnetic ceramic materials. They are ferrimagnetic, meaning they are attracted by…
Fessenden oscillator
A Fessenden oscillator is an electro-acoustic transducer invented by Reginald Fessenden, with development starting in 1912 at the…
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of…
Fidelipac
The Fidelipac, commonly known as a "NAB cartridge" or simply "cart", is a magnetic tape sound recording format, used for radio…
Field recording
Field recording is the production of audio recordings outside recording studios, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and…
Fifths tuning
Fifths tuning is a non-standard tuning for the double bass, used primarily in classical and jazz music. In this tuning, the double bass is…
Fight of the Century
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight of the Century or simply The Fight, was a heavyweight championship boxing match between…
Figured bass
Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note. The numerals and symbols…
FindSounds
FindSounds is a website run by the Comparisonics Corporation. It searches an index of over 1,000,000 sounds on the internet, with 100,000…
First break picking
In seismology, first-break picking is the detecting or picking the onset arrivals of refracted signals from all the signals received by…
Flanging
Flanging is an audio effect produced by mixing two identical signals together, one signal delayed by a small and (usually) gradually…
Flanking transmission
Flanking transmission, also known as noise flanking, a flanking path, or indirect sound transmission, is the transmission of sound between…
Flashdance... What a Feeling
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance with music by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics by Keith Forsey and the…
Flat (music)
In music, flat means lower in pitch. The flat symbol, ♭, indicates that the note to which it is applied is played one chromatic semitone…
Flexi disc
The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet, a trademark) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl…
Floating tone
A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains neither consonants nor vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced…
Fluid tuning
Fluid tuning is a tuning system for the piano. It was developed by Geoff Smith, a composer and musician from Brighton, England.
Flynn–Aird syndrome
Flynn–Aird syndrome is a rare, hereditary, neurological disease that is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. The syndrome involves…
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting method that uses frequency modulation (FM) transmissions. In November 1919, Hans Idzerda began…
Fokker periodicity block
Fokker periodicity blocks are a concept in tuning theory used to mathematically relate musical intervals in just intonation to those in…
Foley (sound design)
In sound design, Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production…
Fonopost
Fonopost, or Phonopost, was an experimental postal service in Argentina to record a person's voice and deliver the resulting recording by…
Footloose (song)
"Footloose" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of…
Forest Grove Sound
The Forest Grove Sound was an unexplained noise, described by The Oregonian as a "mechanical scream", heard in Forest Grove, Oregon, in…
Formant
In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract…
Fortunate Son
"Fortunate Son" is a song by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by the group's frontman John Fogerty.
Fountain syndrome
Fountain syndrome is an autosomal recessive congenital disorder characterized by intellectual disability, deafness, skeletal abnormalities…
Four Saints in Three Acts
Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera composed in 1928 by Virgil Thomson, setting a libretto written in 1927 by Gertrude Stein. It…
Four-frequency
The four-frequency of a massless particle, such as a photon, is a four-vector defined by
Fourier analysis
In mathematics, the sciences, and engineering, Fourier analysis is the study of the way general functions on the real line, circle…
Free to Be... You and Me
Free to Be... You and Me is a children's entertainment project, conceived, created and executive-produced by actress and author Marlo…
Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. Frequency is an important parameter used in science and…
Frequency extender
In broadcast engineering, a frequency extender is an electronic device that expands the usable frequency range of POTS telephone lines.
Frequency following response
The frequency following response (FFR), also referred to as frequency following potential (FFP) is an evoked potential generated by…
Frequency grid
For telecommunications, a frequency grid is a table of all the central frequencies (and corresponding wavelengths) of channels allowed in…
Frequency modulation synthesis
Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating…
Frequency response
In signal processing, electronics and mechanical vibration, the frequency response of a system is the quantitative measure of the…
Frequency standard
A frequency standard is a stable oscillator used for frequency calibration or reference.
Friction Acoustics
Solid bodies in contact that undergo shear relative motion (friction) radiate energy. Part of this energy is radiated directly into the…
Friends (smart speaker)
Friends (stylized as Clova Friends in Japan) is a LINE character-themed smart speaker developed by Naver Corporation and Line Corporation…
Friendship Circle (sculpture)
Friendship Circle is a collaborative art installation by American artist Lee Kelly and musician Michael Stirling, located in Portland…
Frippertronics
Frippertronics is a tape looping technique used by the English guitarist Robert Fripp. It marked the first real-time tape looping device…
Front of house
In the performing arts, the front of house (FOH) is the part of a performance venue that is open to the public. In theatres and live music…
Frozen Peas
Frozen Peas is the colloquial term for a blooper audio clip in which American actor and filmmaker Orson Welles performs narration for a…
Fulton Speech
The "Fulton Speech" (also known as the "Iron Curtain" speech or by its title "The Sinews of Peace") was a 46-minute lecture delivered by…
Functional ultrasound imaging
Functional ultrasound imaging (fUS or fUSI) is a medical ultrasound imaging technique for detecting or measuring changes in neural…
Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental (abbreviated as f0 or f1), is defined as the lowest frequency of a…
Fuzz bass
Fuzz bass is a style of playing the electric bass or modifying its signal that produces a buzzy, distorted, overdriven sound.
Fuzz Face
The Fuzz Face is a fuzz-style distortion pedal designed for electric guitar by Ivor Arbiter and released in 1966. Arbiter designed the…
Fuzz-wah
A fuzz-wah pedal is an effects unit containing both a fuzzbox and wah-wah pedal in series, allowing the user to distort ("wah") and use…