Dynamics
Musical Terms
Musical Symbols
Parts of a Great Performance
Notes and their Values
100

Very Loud

What is fortissimo?

100

Tells you where the notes are written on the staff

What are Clefs?

100

Draw the symbol that tells you to gradually get softer.

What is a crescendo?

100

How high or low a note is.

What is pitch?

100

The note that gets one beat.

What is a quarter note?

200

Soft

What is piano?

200

Tells you to get gradually louder

What is a crescendo?

200

Draw the symbol for raising a note one half step.

What is a sharp?

200

How long you hold each note.

What is rhythm?

200

The note that gets one half beat.

What is an eighth note?

300

Loud

What is forte?

300

Lowers a note one half step.

What is a flat?

300

Draw the symbol that tells you to sing smooth and connected.

What is legato?

300

The pronunciation of the words you sing.

What is diction?

300

The note that gets four beats.

What is a whole note?

400

Medium loud

What is mezzo forte?

400

Tells you to sing a note short and detached

What is a staccato?

400

Draw the clef that the boys sing in when they have their own parts.

What is a bass clef?

400

The beauty of the sound.

What is tone?

400

The note that gets three beats.

What is a dotted half note?

500

Very soft

What is pianissimo?

500

Holding a note until the conductor/director cuts you off.

What is a fermata?

500

Draw the clef that the ladies sing in.

What is a treble clef?

500

The balance and blend of the performing group.

What does ensemble mean?

500

The note that gets one and one half beats.

What is a dotted quarter note?

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