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- Pa
- PA-422
- Packet InterNet Groper
- packet switching
- paired cable
- PAL
- palette
- pan
- Pandiatonic
- Pan-tonal
- parallel
- Parallel keys
- Parallel motion
- parallel port
- Parameter RAM
- parametric equalizer
- Parody mass
- partition
- pascal
- Passacaglia
- Passamezzo
- passband
- Passing six-four
- Passing tone (PT)
- passive crossover
- passive equalizer
- patch
- patchbay (normaling jacks)
- path name
- path name separator
- Pavane
- PCA
- PCB
- PCM
- peak program meter
- Pedal six-four
- peer
- peer-to-peer network
- Perfect 4th
- Perfect 5th
- Perfect authentic cadence (PAC)
- Perfect intervals
- Perfect octave
- Perfect unison
- Performance royalties
- Performing right
- Performing rights organization (PRO)
- period
- Period
- Perl
- Petrushka chord
- PF
- PFC
- PFL
- P-frame
- PGP
- phantom power
- Phase Alternation Line
- phase delay
- Phase music
- phase shift
- phon
- phone jack
- phone plug
- Phong shading
- phono plug
- photoconductor
- photodiode
- photon
- PHP
- Phrase
- Phrase group
- physical code
- pi
- Piano
- Picardy third
- pickup
- pico-
- pincushion distortion
- Ping
- ping-pong
- pin jack
- pink noise
- pit
- Pitch-centricity
- Pitch class
- Pivot chord modulation
- Pivot tone modulation
- pixel
- pixelization
- PKZIP
- placeholder
- Plagal cadence
- Planing
- plasma display
- Platinum album
- playback
- plug
- plug and play
- plug-in
- PMA
- PNG
- PnP
- Pointillism
- point of view
- Points of imitation
- Point-to-Point Protocol
- polarity
- polarization
- Polychoral
- Polychord
- Polyphony
- Polytonality
- POP
- Pop music
- port
- Portable Document Format
- Portable Network Graphics
- portrait
- positional reference
- post
- Postminimalism
- Post Office Protocol
- postproduction
- Post production
- PostScript
- potentiometer
- POV
- power
- power-cycle
- power factor
- power-factor-corrected
- PPM
- PPP
- PRAM
- preamp
- preamplifier
- Pre-chorus
- predictive encoding
- pre-emphasis
- pre-fade listen
- premastering
- Prepared piano
- preproduction
- preroll
- Pretty Good Privacy
- Prime
- Prime form (12-tone row)
- printed circuit board
- print spooler
- print-through
- proc amp
- processor audio
- production
- Production
- production audio
- professional market
- program
- program calibration area
- Programmatic music
- program memory area
- progressive scan
- progressive/sequential coding
- prompt
- propagation
- propagation delay
- Proportional notation
- proportional Q (variable-Q equalizer)
- proprietary
- prosumer
- protocol
- psychoacoustics
- public domain
- Public domain
- pulldown
- pull down/pull up
- pulse code
- pulse code modulation
- pulse width modulation
- punch-in/punch-out
- Punctum contra punctum
- PWM
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