Vocabulary
This is the speed of the beat in a piece of music
What is Tempo?
These are regular, recurrent pulsations that divide music into equal time units.
What are beats?
This is the distance between the highest and lowest notes of a piece.
What is range?
This refers to the relative loudness or softness of music.
What are dynamics?
This tool, either mechanical or electronic, that makes sounds or flashes at specific tempos.
What is a metronome?
This is the relative highness or lowness of a sound
What is Pitch?
This is the ordered duration of sound and silence.
What is rhythm?
This is the unit of measurement that refers to frequency.
What is Hertz?
This is the quality that distinguishes the sounds of different instruments & voices.
What is tone color?
The first and strongest beat of a measure is called this.
What is the downbeat?
This is the distance between two notes
What is an interval?
A repeated pattern of strong and weak beats is called this.
What is meter?
A pitch with an equal frequency with waves hitting the ear evenly is called this.
What is definite pitch?
Name three words that can describe the tone color of an instrument or voice.
Any three appropriate examples, such as bright, dark, full, thin, piercing, warm.
The Italian term that tells a musician to play softly is this.
What is piano?
When an object vibrates & the vibrations travel through the air until they hit the eardrum, sending a signal to the brain.
What is sound?
These are created when beats are organized into fixed groupings, also known as bars.
What are measures?
A pitch with an erratic frequency that hits the ear at uneven intervals is called this.
What is indefinite pitch?
This refers to the layers of musical sound that make up a piece.
What is texture?
A numerical tempo marking of ♩ = 80 tells you how many beats occur in this amount of time.
What is one minute?
This is the artistic organization of sounds in time.
What is music?
This occurs when accents are placed on notes where you would not normally expect them, such as weak beats or between beats.
What is syncopation?
A Hertz equals how many waves of vibration?
What is one wave?
The length and thickness of these are part of what determines the tone of a person's voice.
What are the vocal cords?
This numerical marking indicates the number of beats in a measure.