Notes
Staff
Vocab
Keyboard
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100

A note receiving one beat

Quarter note

100

Another name for G-clef

Treble clef

100

Smoothly connected

legato

100

Another name for middle C.

C4

100

1-2v3-4-5v6-7-1

Natural minor scale

200

If you split a whole note in half, you get this.

Half note

200

Two beats to a measure with the quarter note receiving one beat

2/4

200

A dot above or below a note that tells you to play it short and detached

Staccato

200

A combination of 2 half steps

Whole step

200

Cancels a sharp or flat

Natural sign

300

It takes two of us to make a quarter note

eighth note

300

Another name for bass clef

F-clef

300

Loud or strong

forte

300

Distance from F# to G#

Whole step

300

A musical instrument with four strings

Tetrachord

400

Space notes in the bass clef (on a staff)

A C E G

400

This is used to extend the range of the grand staff

ledger line

400

The "speed" in music

Tempo

400

Moving in the opposite direction

Contrary motion

400

Voices singing the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times

round

500

Notes of the G Major chord (from the bottom)

G B D

500

Meter signature represented by C

Common time

500

Distance from one note to another

Interval

500

Number of keys (both black and white) on a piano keyboard (whole)

88

500

Equivalent to other note(s) but "spelled" differently

Enharmonic

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