Some Music Theory Terms in German

I am giving you a partial list of the German words that you will face when you read a music theory article or book from such German music theorists like Schenker (you probably know him with his
invention of Schenkerian Analysis).

This is not a complete list but I am trying to save time for some of you who are majoring in music theory at a college, university, or a conservatory.

altertieren--to alter

Anschaungskraft--perceptive power

aufgehobene Tonaität--roving harmony

aus Grunden--although(or by)reasoning

bis auf Anfang und Schluss--except at the beginning and end

Consonanz--consonance

Dissonanz--dissonance

Drittel--third

Einfall--idea

Geschlossenheit--completeness

Gestalten--forms

Gliederung--articulation

Kadenzschluss--perfect cadence

kaschiert--hidden

Klang--musical sound

Klangemfindungen--accostical sensation

Klangfarbe--tone color

kombinieren--systematizing; to systematize

die Kunstklang--The Art of Musical Sound(1960), a book by Rober

     Mayrhofer

Manier--motive

Mehrstimmigkeit--polyphony

Mehrstufigkeit--subdivision of the octave

Naturstimmung--nature's voice

Orchesterlied--orchestra song

Ornamentierer--decorator

Schlusse--cadences

schwebende Tonalität--suspended harmony

Stufenreichum--degrees(each one of the degrees)

Terz--third(interval of a third)

Tonalität--tonality

Tonart--tonality

Tonikalisierungprozess--tonicalization process

die Tonreihen--scales; tone-rows

Umtauschen--exchange

Ursachen--elemental sources

Vereindominante--a deceptive dominant, one that executes a deceptive

    progression, such as II-I

Vernunft--reason

Verstand--intellect

Werden--growth

Weschelnote--change line

das Zeitmass--timing

Zusammenklangen--foreign harmonies