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Scale - A succession of tones. The scale generally used in Western music is the diatonic scale, consisting of whole and half steps in a specific order.

Score - The written depiction of all the parts of a musical ensemble with the parts stacked vertically and rhythmically aligned.

Septet - A piece for seven instruments or voices. Seven performers.

Sforzando, Sfz, Sf - Sudden strong accent on a note or chord.

Sharp - A symbol which raises the pitch of a note one-half step.

Sheet music - An individually printed song, most often for voice, piano, guitar,or a combination of the three. Any printed music.

Slur - A curved line placed above or below two or more notes of different pitch to indicate that they are to be performed in legato style.

Sonata - An instrumental piece, often in several movements.

Sonatina - A short sonata. Staccato - Detached sounds, indicated by a dot over or under a note. The opposite of legato.

Staff - The most frequently used staff has five horizontal lines, with four spaces, upon which the notes and other musical symbols are placed.

String instrument family - Instruements with strings that produce sound when plucked, bowed, or struck.

Symphony - A piece for large orchestra, usually in four movements, in which the first movement often is in sonata form. A large orchestra.

Syncopation - Accent on an unexpected beat.