Note Names & Staff
The musical alphabet contains this many letters.
What is seven?
This note usually receives four beats in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note?
A scale is a series of musical notes arranged in this order. (what does a scale do? how does it move?)
What is ascending or descending pitch order?
The dynamic marking f instructs musicians to perform this way.
What is loudly, or forte?
I have five lines but cannot write.
I have four spaces but cannot hold anything.
Musicians place notes upon me. What am I?
What is the musical staff?
These five horizontal lines and four spaces are where music is written.
What is the staff?
This note usually receives two beats in 4/4 time.
What is a half note?
This scale-degree number is called the Do or the Major Note?
What is scale degree one?
The dynamic marking p instructs musicians to perform this way.
What is softly, or piano?
I can be whole, half, quarter, or eighth.
I tell you how long to sing, but I never speak. What am I?
What is a note value?
The treble-clef line notes are E, G, B, D, and this note.
What is F?
Two of these notes equal one quarter note.
What are eighth notes?
This pattern creates a major scale: W-W-H-W-W-W-___.
What is H, or a half step?
This symbol gradually increases the volume of the music.
What is a crescendo?
I control the music’s speed.
I can make it race or move slowly, but I have no feet. What am I?
What is tempo?
The bass-clef space notes spell this phrase/arcanum.
What is ACEG (“All Cows Eat Grass”)?
The top number of a time signature tells musicians this information.
What is the number of beats in each measure?
In the C-major scale, this note is scale degree five.
What is G?
This Italian term means the music should gradually become softer.
What is decrescendo or diminuendo?
I have two numbers stacked on top of each other.
I tell you how the beats are organized, but I am not a fraction. What am I?
What is a time signature?
These short lines extend the staff so higher or lower notes can be written.
What are ledger lines?
A dot beside a note adds this amount to the note’s original value.
What is half of its original value or Adds Half?
This term describes singing or playing two or more different pitches that sound good together.
What is harmony?
This musical term tells performers the speed of the music.
What is tempo?
I am a musical mansion with ten floors,
yet I am built from two separate homes.
A single curved arm keeps us together,
while one special note lives on a short bridge
between the world above and the world below.
What am I?
What is the grand staff?