Vulcan | English | Description | Category |
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a'rs'a | dance | [individual or mass] movement of one's body to accompanyment/music/rhythm/beat | music |
abralash | treble | relating to or having the highest part, voice, or range; high-pitched; shrill; high frequency sound; the highest part, voice, instrument, or range | music |
bling | cymbal | a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together; musical instrument | music |
dhahq | sing | to utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones; to vocalize songs or selections; | music |
Falor's Journey | Falor's Journey | a Vulcan folk song recounting the journey of enlightenment undertaken by the prosperous merchant, Falor; it contains 348 verses (VOY Innocence) | music |
fereikek | synthesizer | an electronic instrument, often played with a keyboard, that combines simple waveforms to produce more complex sounds, such as those of various other instruments | music |
ka'athyra | stringed instrument | stringed musical instrument like an electric harp; propped on the shoulder and sitting on the lap when playing; Spock played one | music |
kauvek | quintet | a composition for five voices or five instruments; a group of five singers or five instrumentalists | music |
kehek | quartet | a composition for four voices or four instruments; a group of four singers or four instrumentalists | music |
kep | gong | a rimmed metal disk that produces a loud, sonorous tone when struck with a padded mallet | music |
kolchak | flute | a high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and finger holes | music |
kril-es | harmony | the study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords; simultaneous combination of notes in a chord | music |
kus-vakh | bell | a hollow metal musical instrument, usually cup-shaped with a flared opening, that emits a metallic tone when struck; a chime [VLI] | music |
kusek | chime | an apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound; small bells (noun) | music |
molu | tone (sound) | a musical interval of two semitones; a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound ; (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | music |
neralash | bass | a low-pitched sound or tone; the tones in the lowest register of an instrument | music |
ply'muth | stringed instrument | a Vulcan stringed instrument; also known as a ka'athyra (Orion Press Lexicon) | music |
ralash-tanaf | music | the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre | music |
ryll | stringed instrument | also known as a ka'athyra | music |
shehek | sextet | a composition for six voices or six instruments; a group of six singers or six instrumentalists | music |
sil'es | tuning fork | a small two-pronged metal device that when struck produces a sound of fixed pitch that is used as a reference, as in tuning musical instruments | music |
stehek | septet | a composition for seven voices or seven instruments; a group of seven singers or seven instrumentalists; a group of seven | music |
t'kehsu | quadruplet | a group of four notes having the time value of three notes of the same kind | music |
tam | dance | an artistic form of nonverbal communication; taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music (VLI) (noun) | music |
tam-tor | dance | to move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment (VLI); movement of ones body to music (verb) | music |
tvelkau | tune | to put into proper pitch; to adopt or adjust, especially in order to bring into harmony (verb) | music |
uralau | sing | to utter a series of words or sounds in musical tones; to vocalize songs or selections (verb) (VLI) | music |
uralaun | singing | the act of singing vocal music | music |
vluhn | drum | drum; musical instrument; percussion instrument (noun) | music |
29 terms found.