Notes
Where they live
Music vocabulary
Meet the staff
Potpouri
100

This note lasts for four beats.

What is a whole note?

100

This note lives on the first space of the Treble cleff  staff.

What is F?

100

This refers to the tune of a song.  It is often used to describe the changing up and down of words in a song.

What is rhythm?

100

A series of five lines and four spaces on which notes are written.

What is a staff?

100

The former host of the real Jeopardy, who had this job for the past 37 years?

Who is Alex Trebek?

200

This note lasts for 1/4 beat.

What is a quarter note?

200

This note lives on the top space of the treble cleff staff.

What is E?

200

A song is composed of two musical elements.  They determine how high or low the notes are and how fast or slow they go.

What are pitch and rhythm?

200

This is an acronym to help you remember the notes on the spaces of a staff.  (An acronym is a word in which each letter stands for something to help you remember) If you get it right, you will save __________.

What is FACE?

200

These are "tools, not _______."

What is "toys"?

300

This note lasts for 2 beats.

What is a half note.

300

This note lives below the first line of the treble cleff staff.

What is C?

300

No sound is represented by this symbol.

What is a rest?

300

To remember the notes that live on the lines, you would say this sentence to help you.  

What is "Every Good Boy Does Fine?"

300

Mrs. White's favorite 80's band.

What is Journey?

400

This note has one flag.

What is an eighth note? 

400

This note lives on the second line of the treble cleff staff.

What is a G?

400

This is defined by bar lines on the staff.  They divide the music into smaller parts, each with the same number of beats.

What is a measure?

400

This swirly little sign tells the musician that G is on the second line of the staff, which helps you know in what pitch to sing the song, and identify the other notes.  It is sometimes called the G clef because originally it looked more like a G than a backwards curly S.

What is the treble clef?

400

A song that tells a story.

What is a Sonata?


500

The length of a sixteenth note.

What is one sixteenth of a beat?

500

This note lives on the third space if the treble cleff staff.

What is a C?

500

This is a term that describes the part of a musical piece that rises in intensity and tone! The term is often used to describe very loud thunder or the finally of a fireworks show. Some say it is "crushing".

What is a Crescendo?

500

This member of the staff is a numerical way to tell you how many beats are in a measure and the value of a  whole note. It is commonly written as a four over a four, although it can be different.

What is a time signature?

500

A dried up plumb is a ____________.

What is a prune?

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