Staff meeting
A symbol used to notate pitches that can be played on a lower pitched instrument or with the left hand on the keyboard.
What is bass clef?
The distance between two notes with the same letter name.
What is an octave?
A note written with a filled-in note head and a stem either extending up or down from the note head.
What is a quarter note?
The fixed, rhythmic pulse of a piece of music.
What is the beat?
A vertical line that separates one measure from another on the staff.
What is a bar line?
The distance of pitch equal to two half steps.
What is a whole step?
A symbol used to indicate the note is lowered a half step.
What is a flat?
A note written with an open note head that doesn't have a stem.
What is a whole note?
The passage of pitch through time.
What is rhythm?
The shortest distance between two notes.
What is a half step?
The five lines on which musical notes are written.
What is a staff?
A symbol used to show that the note is raised by a half step.
What is a sharp?
A note with a filled-in note head and a stem with two flags that are always written to the right of the stem.
What is a sixteenth note?
A meter in which the beat is divided into three equal parts.
What is compound meter?
A sharp, flat, or natural symbol to the left of a note.
What is an accidental?
A symbol used to notate pitches that are to be played on a higher pitched instrument or with the right hand on the keyboard.
What is a treble clef?
A symbol used to cancel a sharp or a flat.
What is a natural?
A note with a filled in note head and a stem with a single flag always written to the right of the stem.
What is an eighth note?
The vertical stack of numbers placed at the beginning of the staff immediately following the clef to indicate the meter.
What is the time signature?
Two notes that have the same pitch or tone but have different names.
What are enharmonic equivalents?
Lines used to show notes that go higher or lower than the five lines of the staff.
What are ledger lines?
The attribute of a musical tone produced by the number of vibrations generating it.
What is pitch?
A symbol placed after a note or rest, increasing the value of the note or rest by half.
What is an augmentation dot?
A meter characterized by four beats per measure
What is quadruple meter?
A note (or notes) that occurs before the 1st complete measure, also referred to as a "pick-up note."
What is an anacrusis?