Know Your Terms
The lowest voice part in choral music.
What is Bass?
This musical object has five lines and four spaces.
What is a Staff?
This note get 1 beat in 4/4 time.
What is a Quarter Note?
This Italian term means soft.
What is Piano?
This is an Italian term that mean singing without accompaniment.
What is A Cappella?
The highest voice part in choral music.
This clef is also known as the G-clef.
What is the Treble Clef?
This note gets 4 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a Whole note?
The "m" in "mp" and "mf" stands for this Italian word.
What is Mezzo?
The title of a person who writes a song.
What is a Composer?
The word that describes the speed of music.
What is tempo?
This part of music notation appears at the beginning of every song, after the clef, and contains 2 important numbers.
What is the Time Signature?
This symbol adds half of the note value to a note
What is a Dot?
This Italian term is one step louder than Mezzo Forte.
What is Forte?
The Italian term that suggests singing or playing notes in a short and detached manner.
What is staccato?
This large muscle is located below the lungs but right above the stomach. It moves up and down to allow air into the lungs.
What is the Diaphragm?
This symbol may appear anywhere in a piece of music. It has two dots and two lines - 1 thin line and 1 thick line directs you back to a certain part of the music.
What is a repeat sign?
It takes two sixteenth notes to equal one of these.
What is an Eighth Note?
This Italian term mean to gradually get softer.
What is Decrescendo?
The Italian term that suggests singing or playing notes in a smooth, connected manner.
What is legato?
This interior piece of anatomy inside the mouth must be raised in order to create tall choral vowels.
What is the Soft Palate?
This symbol raises a pitch by a half step.
What is a Sharp?
This type of note or notes appear before the first full measure of a piece, leading into the downbeat.
What is a pickup note?
This is the Italian term for one step softer than piano.
What iis Pianissimo?
This kind of staff includes both the treble and the bass clef.
What is the Grand Staff?