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Welcome to the Music Vocabulary Relationship Catalogue!

murelca (Music Vocabulary Relationship Catalogue) is a project to collect the vocabulary people use to describe music, and the relationships of these terms. If you read Madison Bloom's review of Julia Holter's 2023 single Sun Girl in the Pitchfork magazine,[1] the music is described with wordings like childlike, bagpipe, melting, birdsong, piccolo, drum machine, mellotron, bubbling, sing-song, nursery rhyme, surrealistic, lap steel guitar, whirring, looping vocals, sheer voice, key plinks, circular melody, craggy drums, screeching sax, placid vocals, baroque, chamber pop, psychedelia, dream, swirling, brassy, vibrant