Music: Intermediate Spanish vocabulary

7 Spanish words about music at intermediate level. Each entry links to the full meaning, a real example sentence, and usage notes written for English speakers.

• entradanounticket for an event
• festivalnounfestival — a multi-day cultural event organised around music or another art form
• instrumentonounmusical instrument — any device used to produce musical sound
• géneronounartistic genre — the category or style of a creative work
• ensayarverbto rehearse — to practise a performance
• actuarverbto perform, to appear on stage or in a show — intransitive in this sense; contrasts with interpretar
• partituranounsheet music or musical score — the printed notation of a musical composition used by performers; leer la partitura; contrast: tocar de memoria