Music is an important part of people's way of life. People may make music as a hobby, like a teen playing cello in a youth orchestra, or working as a professional musician or singer. The common elements of music are pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. Music is performed with a vast range of instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping.
Music-inspired baby names are beautiful, and they make good names for your little boy or girl musicians. Check out the below list and select your favorite name for your beloved babies.
Aria: Italian name means "melody." Usually a solo in an opera.
Cadence: Latin name means "rhythmic."
Calypso: A style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-20th century and spread to the rest of Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela. Calypso is also nymph in Greek mythology, who lived on the island of Ogygia, where she detained Odysseus for several years.
Cantrelle: French name means "song."
Chantal: French name means "song."
Condoleezza: Made famous by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose parents fashioned her name from a musical term meaning "with sweetness."
Diva: A diva is a celebrated female singer; a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and by extension in theatre, cinema and popular music. The meaning of diva is closely related to that of prima donna.
Harmony: Greek name means "a beautiful blending."
Kyrie: A common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison.
Lyra: Greek name means "lyrical." Lyra is a constellation name taken from the lyre of Orpheus. It contains the star Vega and thus could make a melodic choice for a parent interested in music, astronomy, or mythology.
Lyric: Greek name means "sung with a lyre."
Melody: Greek name means "music, song."
Sonata: Italian name means "to sound." In music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata, a piece sung.
Song: A song, most broadly, is a single work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.
Viola: A bowed and plucked string instrument. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin.
Ballad: A form of narrative poetry, often put to music, or a type of sentimental love song in modern popular music.
Banjo: A stringed instrument common in folk and popular music.
Cello: A bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.
Jazz: A music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation.
Lute: Any string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table, more specifically to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.
Music: An art form consisting of sound and silence, expressed through time.
Reed: A thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. The reeds of most woodwind instruments are made from Arundo donax or synthetic material; tuned reeds are made of metal or synthetics.
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