- avant-garde: experimentalists or innovators in any art
- bas-relief: sculpture in which the figures project only slightly from the background
- baton: rod a conductor uses to direct an orchestra or band
- chef d'oeuvre: chief work; masterpiece in art, literature, etc.
- denouement: solution ("untying") of the plot in a play, story, or complex situation; outcome, end
- encore: audience's demand for an additional performance; repetition or additional performance in response to applause
- genre: kind; sort; category / style of painting depicting scenes from everyday life
- musicale: social gathering with music as the featured entertainment
- palette: thin board (with a thumb hole at one end) on which an artist lays and mixes colors
- repertoire: stock of plays, operas, roles, compositions, etc., that a company or individual is prepared to perform / collection
- vignette: short verbal description; small, graceful literary sketch