English for Academic Purposes: Vocabulary

Specific Vocabulary

Specific vocabulary for use in your academic area.




Thank you to Kay Gillett for help with this.

accent, accents, acoustic, aesthetic, album, albums, amalgamated, ambient, amplification, amplified, arena, auditioned, aural, autobiography, avant-garde, award, awards, ballad, ballads, ballet, ballets, banjo, banjoist, baroque, bass, basses, bassist, big-band, black-derived, black-oriented, blend, blended, blending, bluegrass, blues, boogie-woogie, boom, cable, cakewalk, cakewalks, call-and-response, cappella, chanson, chant, chanted, chanting, chants, chord, chord-based, chords, chorus, chromatic, clapping, composers, compositions, concert, concerts, conductor, consecutive, contour, copyright, counterpoint, country-and-western, country-pop, couplets, crotchet, danceable, dance-pop, debut, diatonic, disco, discs, downbeat, drones, drug, drug-alluding, drumbeats, durations, echoes, electrified, electronic, ensemble, ensembles, entertainers, entertainments, fame, fiddles, flattened, flourished, flute, folk, folk-influenced, fox-trot, funk, fusion, fusions, generic, genre, genres, gospel, gospel-oriented, gramophone, grunge, guitar, guitars, half-spoken, handclapping, handclaps, hardcore, hard-rock, harmonic, harmonica, harmonies, harmony, hollers, honky-tonk, honky-tonks, hymnody, hymns, improvisation, improvise, improvised, improvising, incidental, instrumentalist, instrumentation, jazz, jigs, jitterbug, jukebox, keyboard, liturgical, lute, lyric, lyrics, madrigal, magazine, mainstream, mandolinist, melodic, melodies, melody, microtonally, miscellany, musicality, musicals, musicianship, musics, non-commercial, non-commercially, nostalgia, notated, notation, notational, octave, offbeat, onstage, opera, operas, operatic, operetta, orchestra, orchestral, orchestras, pentatonic, performable, performer, performing-right, phonograph, phonographs, phrase, phrases, pianist, pianists, piano, pianos, pitch, pitches, plainsong, plucked, polymetre, polyrhythmic, pop, pop-style, progression, pulse, punk, quadrilles, quaver, rag, ragtime, rap, rapper, rapping, recital, recordings, reels, refrain, reggae, renaissance, repertoire, repetition, repetitive, resonant, resounding, rhyme, rhyming, rhythm, rhythm-and-blues, rhythmic, rhythmically, rhythms, rockabillies, rockabilly, rock-and-roll, rocksteady, romantic, rubato, rumba, saloons, salsa, saxophone, saxophones, scores, secular, semibreve, semitones, singles, sitar, sitars, slapping, slurring, solo, soloist, songwriter, spirituals, stanza, symphonic, symphonies, syncopated, syncopation, synthesisers, talent, talk-song, tambourines, tango, tempo, timbre, timbres, tone, tones, transposability, tribal, trio, triplet, troubadours, unamplified, underscore, underscored, upbeat, urban, vibration, violin, violins, virtuosos, vocal, vocalist, vocalists, yodels