Pitch
What determines whether a note sounds high or low?
What is frequency (vibrations per second)?
How many lines are on a musical staff?
What is five?
What is the basic unit of time in music?
What is the beat?
This musical element is a sequence of pitches that gives music shape and direction.
What is melody?
A symbol that represents silence is called a ________.
What is a rest?
Shorter strings produce this type of pitch.
What is a higher pitch?
A sharp raises a note by this amount.
What is a half step?
Tempo measures this.
What is the speed of the beat?
Combining pitches to add depth and richness to music creates this musical element.
What is harmony?
Which rest lasts one beat in 4/4 time?
What is a quarter rest?
What is another name for timbre?
What is tone color (or tone quality)?
Two half steps equal a ________.
What is a whole step?
What tells musicians how many beats are in each measure?
What is the time signature?
These groups of pitches sounding together help form harmony.
What are chords?
A five-note scale is called what?
What is a pentatonic scale?
Name one factor that affects timbre.
Instrument material, size, shape, playing technique, or acoustic environment.
How many semitones are in one octave?
What is twelve?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name the three types of meter discussed in class.
What are simple, compound, and complex meter?
This term describes the space between two pitches.
What is an interval?
Intervals smaller than a half step are called what?
What are microtones?
What is the register of an instrument?
What is its melodic range from lowest to highest note?
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the pattern of a major scale?
What is W–W–H–W–W–W–H?
Which meter is an example of a complex meter: 4/4, 6/8, or 5/4?
What is 5/4?
Melody and harmony are both constructed from these basic building blocks of musical sound.
What are pitches?
This term describes a series of notes arranged in ascending or descending order.
What is a scale?