Rhythm
Pitch
Terms & Symbols
Sight Singing
Odds & Ends
100
The combination of long and short notes and rests.
What is rhythm?
100
The combonation of three or more notes played or sung at the same time.
What is chord?
100
The space between two barlines.
What is measure.
100
A symbol that raises the pitch of a given note one half step.
What is a sharp?
100
A symbol that lowers the pitch of a given note one half step.
What is a flat?
200
A time signature in which there are four beats per measure and the quarter note recieves the beat.
What is 4/4 time?
200
The symbol that cancels a previous sharp or flat in a key signature.
What is a natural sign?
200
A set of two barlines that indicate the end of a piece or section of music.
What is a double barline?
200
A clef that generally indicates notes that sound lower than middle C.
What is a base clef?
200
A group of notes that are sung or played in succession and are based on a particular home tone, or key note.
What is a scale?
300
A symbol that increases the lenght of a given note by half its value.
What is a dot?
300
A scale that has La as its home tone.
What is minor scale?
300
A symbol placed above or below a given note that indicates the note should recieve emphasis or stress.
What is an accent?
300
A chord built on the fourth note of a scale.
What is the subdominant chord?
300
A group of three even notes that equal one beat when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is a triplet?
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?
400
The distance between two notes.
What is an interval?
400
Symbols in music used to indicate how loud or soft to sing.
What is dynamics?
400
Any sharp, flat, or natural that is not included in the key signature of a piece of music.
What is an accidental?
400
The combination of two half steps side by side.
What is a whole step?
500
A technique in which the time signature or meter changes frequently within a piece of music.
What is mixed meter?
500
A chord built on the fifth note of a scale.
What is a dominant chord?
500
This is what occurs when the accent is placed on notes that normally do not recieve extra emphasis.
What is syncopation?
500
To compose and perform a melody at the same time.
What is improvise?
500
Rhythms in which the second eighth note of each beat is played or sung like the last third of a triplet.
What are swing rhythms?
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