Rhythm
Terms & Symbols
Pitch
Sight Singing
Odds & Ends
100
Steady pulse of all music.
What is beat?
100
A vertical line that groups notes and rests together
What is a barline?
100
A series of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which notes are written.
What is a staff?
100
A staff that is created when two staves are joined together.
What is a grand staff?
100
A note that represents half a beat of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is an eighth note?
200
A note that represnts one beat of sound
What is a quarter note?
200
Space between two barlines.
What is a measure?
200
How high or low each note sounds.
What is a pitch?
200
Determined by its home tone, or keynoe.
What is a key?
200
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do
What is solfege?
300
A rest that represents one beat of silence.
What is Quarter Rest?
300
Set of two barlines that indicate the end of a piece or section of music.
What is a double barline?
300
Symbol at the beginning of a staff that indicates which lines and spaces represent which notes.
What is a clef?
300
A group of notes that are sung or played in succession and are based on a particular home tone, or keynote.
What is a scale?
300
The distance between two notes.
What is a invterval?
400
Set of numbers at the beginning of a piece of music
What is a time signature?
400
A clef that generallyindicates notes that sound higher than middle C.
What is a treble clef?
400
A note that represents three beats of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is a dotted half note?
400
A curved line used to connect two or more notes of the same pitch in order to make one longer note.
What is a tie?
500
A way of organizing rhythm.
What is a meter?
500
The end of a piece of music may also be labeled.
What is a fine?
500
A clef that generally indicates notes that sound lower than middle c.
What is a Bass Clef?
500
Combination of three or more notes played or sung at the same time.
What is a chord?
500
A chord built on the home tone, or keynote, of a scale.
What is a tonic chord?
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