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Lydian is very pretty. I've never heard it before.

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Aria (g) - pretty
Brava (g) - ok, nms
Cadence / Cadenza (g) - nmsaa
Calliope (prn kuh-LYE-oh-pee - g) - pretty, probably wouldn't use though
Dauer (b) - nms
Delasol (g) - nms
Echo (g) - nmsaa
Elegie (g) - nms
Ethos (b) - nms
Etude (b) - don't like it
Folia (g) - although it *does* literally mean 'insanity' - ok
Fugue (prn fewg - b) - NO WAY
Ganzton (b) - don't like it
Glee (g) - 3 or more part voice songs; think glee clubs - cute as a mn
Habanera (g) - NO, too close to Habenero, the hot pepper?
Harmonia / Harmonie / Harmony (g) - pretty
Holz (b) - nms
Hosanna (g) - like it!
Idyll (either) - nms
Intrada (g) - pretty
Jazz (b) - NO!
Jubilus (b) - don't like it
Kalimba (g) - no
Kantor (b) - no
Kinnor (b) - no
Kithara (g) - no
Kyrie (prn KEY-ree-ay - g) - pretty but people would always pronounce Ky-ree
Laudes (either) - nms
Lied (prn. leed - b) - nms
Lira / Lyrica / Lyra / Lyre (g) - I like Lyric; Lira/Lyra/Lyre is pretty too
Madrigal (b) - nms
Mandolin (g) - don't like it as a name
Melisma (g) - nms
Melody (g) - very pretty
Mirliton (b) - no
Nocturne (g) - NO WAY!
Nola (g) - ok
Noter (b) - no
Ode (b) - no
Oratorio (b) - no
Orphica (g) - NO WAY!
Ossia (g) - ok
Paean (b) - no
Partita (g) - no
Psalm (either) - eh, ok for a mn
Quadrille (g) - no
Quire (choir - b) - he'd get made fun of and called "queer"
Radel (b) - ok
Redowa (slavic, so I'm assuming it reh-DOH-vah - g) - nms
Rein (either, rhymes w/fine - refers to tuning intervals) - ok
Salmo (b) - nms
Samba (b) - not as a name
Scala (either) - nms
Sequela (g) - nms
Seraphine (small organ invented circa 1830 - g) - pretty
Serenade (g) - not as a name
Talea (g) - pretty
Tambor (b) - nms
Telyn (either) - ok
Toccatina (g) - NO WAY!
Tonale (b) - nms
Uilleann (g) - don't like it
Ukelin (b) - nmsaa
Valor (in music, it means the value or proportion of a note - b) - nms
Ventile (g) - nmsaa
Vesper (g) - nmsaa
Vielle (g) - ok
Vocalise (g) - not as a name
Yodel (orginally jodel - b) - NO WAY!!!!
Zanphonia (g) - nms
Zimbel / Zymbel (b) - nmsaa
Zither (either) - nmsaa

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