Notes
Tempo
Music Notation
Definitions
Bonus
100

small oval shape, looks like the letter o

Semibreve (or whole note)

100

Medium

Andante

100

the space between two bar lines

Measure
100

when something makes a sound (usually sounds bad)

Noise

100

an accent every three beats

Triple

200

small oval shape with a line going up or down

minim (or half note)

200

very slow

largo

200

five horizontal lines that have space for notes

Staff

200

the speed of the music

Tempo

200

what genre of music is the electric guitar used for

Rock Music

300

a filled in oval with a line going up or down

crotchet (or quarter note)

300

fast

allegro

300

the lines which cross the staff and divide into measures

bar lines

300

when there is a lot of noise and the levels are high

Noise Pollution

300

an accent every four beats

Quadruple

400

looks like a quarter note (crotchet) with a tail coming out from the side

quaver (or eighth note)

400

slow

adagio

400

written at the end of a piece

Double bar line

400

The music and sound effects that are in a movie

Soundtrack

400

what kind of band were The Rolling Stones

a Rock band

500

looks like two quavers connected or one quaver with two tails

Semiquaver (or sixteenth note)

500

very fast

presto

500

increases the note’s duration (length) by half the original value

Dot after the note

500

indicates the number of beats and the length of the beats in each measure

Time Signature


500

a device used to measure the speed of the beat

Metronome

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