Pitch
Tempo
Expressive Devices
Dynamics
Instruments
100
The main instrument or voice usually plays this line.
What is melody?
100
The Italian term that describes slow tempi.
What is largo?
100
The Italian term for smooth.
What is legato?
100
The Italian term that describes soft music.
What is piano?
100
Identify this string instrument.
What is the double bass?
200
The main tune or idea in a piece of music.
What is theme or motif?
200
The Italian term that describes moderate tempi.
What is moderato?
200
The Italian term for short and detached.
What is staccato?
200
The Italian term that describes loud music.
What is forte?
200
Identify this woodwind instrument.
What is the oboe?
300
The distance between two notes. Usually described in tones, semitones, steps and leaps.
What is an interval?
300
The Italian term that describes fast and lively tempi.
What is allegro?
300
The term for a note played with emphasis or strength.
What is an accent or marcato?
300
The Italian term that describes music that gradually gets louder.
What is crescendo?
300
Identify this string instrument.
What is the cello?
400
A short repeated melody.
What is melodic ostinato?
400
The Italian term that describes tempi that gradually get faster.
What is accelerando?
400
Two notes rapidly alternating.
What is a trill?
400
The Italian term that describes music that gradually gets softer.
What is diminuendo?
400
Identify this brass instrument.
What is the French horn?
500
The character of a piece of music. This is usually determined by its key (major/minor/pentatonic/atonal).
What is tonality?
500
The Italian term that describes tempi that gradually get slower.
What is ritardando?
500
The grouping of notes in a distinct way.
What is phrasing?
500
The Italian term that describes music that is played with a sudden emphasis.
What is sforzando?
500
Identify this percussion instrument.
What is the timpani?
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