Music Terms
This is the italian term for playing music loudly.
A note shaped like an egg receiving 4 beats in 4/4 time
What is a whole note?
The seven letters of the musical alphabet
What are ABCDEFG?
Instrument family to which the flute and clarinet belong
What is the woodwind family?
The director of a band or orchestra
What is a conductor?
How fast or slow the music is performed
What is tempo?
One beat of silence in 4/4 time
What is a quarter note?
The word that spells the spaces of the treble clef staff from bottom to top
What is FACE?
The trumpet has this many valves
What is 3?
Mrs. Teague's cat's name
What is Piper?
The symbol for gradually playing louder
Two of these notes create one beat in 4/4 time
What are eighth notes?
There are 5 of these on the musical staff
What are lines?
The instrument family to which snare drum and cymbals belong
What is the percussion family?
The composer who became deaf but continued to compose music
Who is Beethoven?
A musical symbol that requires the musician to play a section of the music again, noted by two vertical lines and two dots
What is a repeat sign?
A piece of music in 6/8 time has this many beats per measure
What is 6?
This clef is generally used by low sounding instruments like baritone and tuba
What is bass clef?
This wind instrument has no valves and uses a slide to change notes
What is trombone?
How brass instruments produce sound
What is buzzing?
To play short, light and detached, represented by a dot above or below a note
What is staccato?
Connecting two notes together to make a longer note, attached with a curved line
What is a tie?
The lines of the bass clef from bottom to top
What is GBDFA?
Mrs. Teague's main instrument
What is flute?
Clarinet and saxophone use this attached to the mouthpiece to produce
What is a reed?