What's the Score?
Contains 5 lines and 4 spaces, for writing music on.
What is a staff?
This rhythm has 4 counts.
What is a semibreve or whole note?
Tempo means...
Clarinet, oboe, saxophone.
What is the woodwind family?
This note receives 1 beat in 4/4 time signature.
What is a crotchet/quarter note?
This clef is also called the G clef.
What is a "C"?
Forte means...
What is loud?
Trumpet, tuba, trombone.
What is the brass family?
This is another name for the first beat in each measure.
What is a downbeat?
This divides the staff into measures.
What is a bar line?
This raises a pitch by a semitone.
What is a sharp?
The opposite of forte.
What is piano?
Guitar, violin, cello.
What is the string family?
This note receives 2 beats in 4/4 time signature.
What is a minim/half note?
This indicates how many beats are in each measure, and what type of note receives one beat.
What is a time signature?
There are this many notes in a Major scale.
What is 8?
Gradually getting louder.
What is crescendo?
Piano, cymbals, timpani.
What is the percussion family?
This rhythm receives 3 counts in 4/4 time signature.
What is a dotted minim/dotted half note?
The Italian term for the end or 'tail' of a song.
What is a Coda?
This is the middle note on a piano (below a set of 2 black keys).
What is "Middle C"?
This term can be used to describe the quality of an instrument's sound.
What is timbre, intonation or tone?
Drum machine, synthesizer, theremin.
What is the electronic family?
This rhythm gets 1 count in 6/8 time.
What is a quaver/eighth note?