Elements of Music
Rhythm Values
Accidentals & Half / Whole Steps
Human Voices
Instruments of the Orchestra
100

This element refers to how loud or soft music is.

What is dynamics?

100

This note gets one beat in common time.

What is a quarter note?

100

This accidental raises a note by a half step.

What is a sharp?

100

This is the highest female singing voice.

What is soprano?

100

This string instrument is the smallest and highest-pitched in the orchestra string family.

What is the violin?

200

This element describes the speed of music.

What is tempo?

200

This note receives two beats.

What is a half note?

200

This accidental lowers a note by a half step.

What is a flat?


200
This is the lowest male singing voice.

What is bass?

200

This brass instrument has a slide that changes the pitch instead of valves.

What is the trombone?

300

This element refers to the tune or main musical line you sing or play.

What is melody?

300

This note receives four beats in common time.

What is a whole note?

300

This accidental cancels a sharp or flat.

What is a natural?

300

This voice type is between soprano and alto.

What is mezzo soprano?

300

This large string instrument is usually played while sitting and rest on the floor with a spike.

What is the cello?

400

This element refers to how short or long the sounds are. 

What is rhythm?

400

Two of these equal a quarter note.

What are eighth notes?

400

The distance between two adjacent piano keys (including black keys) is called this.

What is a half step?

400

This is the highest male singing voice in classical singing. 

What is tenor?

400

This woodwind instrument uses a double reed and often tunes the orchestra.

What is the oboe?

500

This element describes the tone color or unique sound of an instrument or voice.

What is timbre?

500

This symbol adds half the value to a note.

What is a dot?

500

This interval equals two half steps.

What is a whole step?

500

This voice type is between soprano and tenor in a choir and is usually sung by lower female voices.

What is alto?

500

This percussion instrument has wooden bars arranged like a keyboard and is struck with mallets.

What is the xylophone?

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