1st Quarter Stuff
Bar
What is a common term for a musical measure?
Scale
What is a family of pitches arranged in an ascending/descending order?
Meter
Accent
What is to momentarily emphasize a new note with a dynamic attack?
Chromaticism
What is the harmonic or melodic movement by half-step intervals?
Beat
What is a musical pulse?
Major Scale
What is a family of seven alphabetically ordered pitches within the distance of an octave?
Crescendo
What is gradually getting louder?
Harmony
What is the elemental category describing vertical combinations of pitches?
Genre
What is a category of musical composition (the specific classification of a musical work)?
Note
What is a black or white oval shaped symbol in music notation?
Dynamics
What is a musical element of relative musical loudness or quietness
Duple meter
What is a basic metrical pattern having two beats per measure?
Motive
What is a small musical fragment used to build a larger musical idea?
Modern Era
What is a music era impacted by daring experimentation, advances in musical technology, and popular/non-Western influces from 1890 to present?
Flat sign
What is a musical symbol that lowers a pitch one-half step?
Fortissimo
What is a very loud dynamic?
Whole step
What is an interval twice as large as a half step?
Ritardando
What is to gradually slow down the tempo?
Legato
What is a smooth, connected manner of performing a melody?
Key signature
What is a series of sharps or flats written on a musical staff that indicates the key of a composition?
Unison
What is the rendering of a single melodic line by several performers simultaneously?
Range
What is the distance between the lowest and highest possible notes of an instrument or melody?
Timbre/Tone Color
What is the unique, characteristic sound of a musical instrument or voice?
Tempo
What is the speed of the musical beat?