Musical Ingredients

Instrumentation
The instruments used in a piece of music.


Tempo
The speed that a passage of music is/should be played.


Dynamics
The different levels of volume of sound at different parts of a musical performance.


Rhythm
 A strong, regular and repeated pattern of sound and movement.


Melody
A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.


Texture
Texture is the way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition.


Harmony/Key
The mixture of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords.


Structure

Musical structure is form and arrangement of music.

Technology/SFX

An imitative sound, as of thunder or an explosion, produced artificially for theatrical purposes, as for a film, play, or radio program.