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Musical notation
Musical notation is any structured system of graphic symbols representing music visually, for performance, composition, and preservation. Covers neumes, Guido of Arezzo's staff (c. 1030), Franco of Cologne's measured rhythm, tablature, non-Western systems, and digital formats MusicXML and MEI.
Musical note
Musical note: a designation combining pitch and duration, also the sounded tone or written symbol; twelve chromatic names (C–B) per octave, note values halving by factors of two, with solfège, German H, and enharmonic spellings.
Musical saw
Musical saw, also singing saw (lame musicale, singende Säge): a flexed handsaw or toothless purpose-built blade bowed at its inflection-line sweet spot, a friction idiophone with a 2-2.5 octave range, vaudeville-era folk instrument with festivals and a 53-player Guinness record.
Musical tuning
Musical tuning: setting instrument pitches to a reference and a tuning system. Standard is A440 (A above middle C, 440 Hz), adopted at the 1939 London conference and codified in ISO 16:1975; earlier standard was 435 Hz; equal temperament divides the octave into twelve equal semitones.
Musical Youth
Musical Youth, British-Jamaican reggae band formed 1979 in Birmingham; members Kelvin and Michael Grant, Junior and Patrick Waite, Dennis Seaton. "Pass the Dutchie" hit UK number 1 in 1982, sold millions, and made them the first black act on MTV.
Musicologo
Musicólogo The Libro, born Ygnacio Alberto Santiago, is a Dominican urban and reggaeton singer known for dembow hits like "Wow que Movie" and "Limonada Coco."
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music across history, culture, and society, divided since Guido Adler's 1885 treatise into historical and systematic branches, with subfields including ethnomusicology, comparative musicology, and digital musicology.
Musicology (album)
Musicology is Prince's 28th studio album (Columbia Records, April 2004), his commercial comeback: No. 3 on the Billboard 200, double platinum US, two Grammy Awards from five nominations, and the ticket-bundled Musicology Live 2004ever tour, the highest-grossing tour of 2004.
Musiq Soulchild
Musiq Soulchild, stage name of Philadelphia-born Taalib Johnson (born 1977), is an R&B/neo-soul singer-songwriter whose albums Aijuswanaseing, Juslisen, and Luvanmusiq went platinum or gold, with three million U.S. albums sold.
Musique concrète
Musique concrète (also Concrete music): music composed from recorded natural sounds, altered and rearranged, founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 at French radio's Club d'Essai, theorized in his Traité des Objets Musicaux and continued by the GRM.
Muslim Magomayev (musician)
Muslim Magomayev (Müslüm Maqomayev, 1942–2008) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani operatic and estrada baritone and composer, grandson of composer Muslim Magomayev Sr.; La Scala-trained, Sopot and Cannes prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR (1973).
Mustafa Ceceli
Mustafa Ceceli is a Turkish pop singer, arranger, and producer born in Ankara in 1980 who rose from arranging for stars to a solo career with his 2009 debut album.
Mustafa Zahid
Mustafa Zahid, born 1984 in Lahore, Pakistan, is a singer and composer, lead vocalist of the rock band Roxen and the voice of Awarapan's 2007 hit songs.
Mustang Sally (song)
"Mustang Sally" is a 1965 R&B song written and first recorded by Mack Rice (originally "Mustang Mama") and made famous by Wilson Pickett's 1966 FAME Studios recording, a Top Ten R&B hit covered by hundreds of artists.
Mustard (record producer)
Mustard (Dijon Isaiah McFarlane), formerly DJ Mustard, is a Los Angeles producer who created the minimalist 'ratchet' club sound behind 'Rack City,' 'My Nigga,' and Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us.'
Mute Records
Mute Records, independent British record label founded 1978 by Daniel Miller with The Normal's TVOD/Warm Leatherette; home of Depeche Mode, Erasure, Nick Cave; sold to EMI 2002, catalogue later to BMG.
Mute Records discography
Mute Records is a British record label founded by Daniel Miller in 1978, known for electronic, synth-pop, and industrial music by Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure.
Mutemath
Mutemath (Mute Math, MUTEMATH): American alternative rock project founded in New Orleans by Paul Meany, ex-Earthsuit, with drummer Darren King; Grammy-nominated "Typical" video; albums Mute Math (2006) through Play Dead (2017); later Meany's solo project on Voytek Records.
Muthaland Entertainment
Muthaland Entertainment is an independent South African record label and production house in Johannesburg, founded by Lance Stehr in 2009 as the sister company of Ghetto Ruff.
Mutt (album)
Mutt is Leon Thomas's second studio album, released September 2024 on EZMNY/Motown; a 14-track neo-soul, jazz, and rock-influenced R&B record that won the 2026 Grammy for Best R&B Album.
Mutt (Leon Thomas song)
"MUTT" is a 2024 R&B song by Leon Thomas, title track of his album MUTT (EZMNY/Motown), written with Bizzy Crook and produced by D. Phelps and Freaky Rob; it peaked in the Billboard Hot 100 top 15, hit No. 1 on Radio Songs, and went double platinum.
Mutter (album)
Mutter, Rammstein's third studio album (German for "Mother"), released 2 April 2001 on Vertigo/Capitol; produced by Jacob Hellner, recorded at Studio Miraval in France, debuted at number 1 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Mutya Buena
Mutya Buena (Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena, born 1985) is an English singer, founding Sugababes member 1998-2005, solo album Real Girl (2007), MKS reunion 2012, name regained 2019.
Muwashshah
The muwashshah (موشح) is a strophic Arabic song and poetry genre from al-Andalus, its literary form dating to the 9th century and its sung tradition blossoming in Aleppo in the 17th.
MÜYAP
MÜYAP (MÜ-YAP), the Professional Union of Connected Rightsholder Phonogram Producers, is the Turkish professional association of recorded-music producers, founded in Istanbul in 2000, which collects and distributes royalties for member companies and fights piracy.
Muz-TV Awards (Премия МУЗ-ТВ)
The Muz-TV Awards (Премия МУЗ-ТВ) are an annual Russian popular-music award presented by the Muz-TV channel since 2003, decided by expert-jury and audience voting and staged as a televised arena show.
Muzak
Muzak, or elevator music brand, an American background-music company founded by General George Owen Squier via Wired Radio, renamed Muzak in 1934; known for Stimulus Progression programming and its 2011 sale to Mood Media for US$345 million.
Mvet
The Mvet is a Fang stringed instrument and its accompanying epic oral genre, performed by initiated singers across Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo, and inscribed by UNESCO in 2025.
Mwana FA
Mwana FA, real name Hamisi Mwinjuma, is a Tanzanian bongo flava rapper active since the mid-1990s who broke through in 2002 with Ingekuwa Vipi and has served as MP for Muheza since 2020.
Mx Blouse
Mx Blouse is the professional name of Sandiso Ngubane, a non-binary South African rapper based in Johannesburg, born in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal, known for blending rap, R&B, kwaito, and jazz.