Deutsch - Englisch
- Mediante - mediant
- mehrstimmig - polyphonic, in several voices
- melismatisch - melismatic
- Melodielinie - melodic contour
- Melodiestimme - melody part, melody line
- Melodik - melody (shape)
- melodiös - melodious
- melodisch - melodic, tuneful, songful
- melodisch Moll - melodic minor
- Metrum - metre, meter
- Mittelstimme - middle part, middle voice, inner voice
- Mixturklänge - chord parallels, parallel chords, locked parallel voices
- modal - modal
- Modulation (Tonartwechsel) - modulation
- modulieren - to modulate
- Modus (Tonart) - modus, mode
- Mollakkord - minor chord
- Molldreiklang - minor triad
- Molltonart - minor key
- Molltonleiter - minor scale
- Musikleben - musical life, musical scene
- Musiklehre, elementare - rudiments of music
- Musikverständnis - understanding of music, appreciation of music
- Musikwerk - music work, composition
- musikwissenschaftlich, musikologisch - musicological