Parts of Music
Dynamics
Rhythm
Intervals
Key Signatures
100
This is the name for the five lines and four spaces on which we write music.
What is a staff?
100
The term dynamics describes how _______ or how _______ one plays/sings a piece of music.
What is loud/soft?
100
This is the term for a musical silence.
What is a rest?
100
This is the definition of the word "interval."
What is the distance between two pitches?
100
A key signature is used to tell us ________ _____ a piece of music is in.
What is what key?
200
This is the symbol that tells us how many beats are in each measure.
What is a time signature?
200
This Italian term means "soft."
What is piano?
200
This is the kind of note that lasts exactly one beat.
What is a quarter note?
200
This is the interval between two pitches which are on the exact same line or space.
What is unison?
200
Key signatures consist of _________ or _______.
What are sharps or flats?
300
This is the term for a group of staves that go together.
What is a system?
300
This Italian term means "very loud."
What is fortissimo?
300
This is the kind of note that receives 1/2 of one beat.
What is an eighth note?
300
This is the term used instead of "8th".
What is an octave?
300
This is the solfege represented by the last sharp in a sharp key signature.
What is "ti"?
400
This vertical line extends up or down from the notehead.
What is a stem?
400
This Italian term means "gradually becoming softer."
What is decrescendo?
400
This musical symbol connects two or more notes such that their rhythmic values are added together.
What is a tie?
400
This is another name for a second.
What is a step?
400
This is the solfege syllable represented by the last flat in a flat key signature.
What is "fa"?
500
This horizontal line connects eighth notes in together in groups -- usually of two or four.
What is a beam?
500
This Italian term means "gradually getting louder."
What is crescendo?
500
This is the total number of beats that results when a half note, dotted half note, whole note, and quarter note are tied together.
What is ten?
500
This is the resulting interval if the first note is on the first line and the second note is on the fifth line.
What is an ascending ninth?
500
This is the location of HIGH DO if the last flat is on the second space.
What is the fourth space?
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