Dynamics
Tempo
Notes
History
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This means soft in Italian.
What is piano?
100
Largo means this.
What is very slow?
100
This note receives one beat?
What is a quarter note?
100
This invention in the 1920s gave music, information, and news to the whole country.
What is the radio?
100
This line connects notes of the same pitch (line or space).
What is a tie?
200
This dynamic means loud.
What is forte?
200
This tempo marking means to slow down gradually.
What is ritartando?
200
This note receives two beats.
What is a half note?
200
This was the slang term for a movie with sound.
What is a "talkie?"
200
This line means legato or phrasing a series of notes.
What is a slur?
300
Adding "-issimo" to the end of a dynamic means this.
What is very?
300
This tempo means to speed up gradually.
What is accelerando?
300
This note receives four beats.
What is a whole note?
300
The Phonograph is another word for this music device.
What is a record?
300
This means to play the note detached, sharp.
What is staccato?
400
What Italian term means moderately?
What is mezzo?
400
This tempo means lively.
What is vivace?
400
This note receives three beats.
What is a dotted half note?
400
This type of piano music was a craze in the early 1900s.
What is ragtime?
400
This means to play the full value of the note.
What is a tenuto?
500
This dynamic means to get gradually softer.
What is diminuendo? (or decrescendo)
500
This tempo means a walking speed.
What is andante?
500
This note receives a beat and half.
What is a dotted-quarter note?
500
Before recordings, this was what music was sold and duplicated on.
What is sheet music?
500
This means to play a note or notes louder than the rest.
What is an accent?
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