Dynamics
Tempo
Music Symbols
Basics
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(cresc.) to gradually become louder.
What is a Crescendo
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Allegro

What is quick or fast

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a hold or pause.
What is Fermata
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Another term for 4/4 meter.
What is Common Time
100
a piece of music written for two performers.
What is duet
200
medium loud
What is mezzo forte
200

Moderato

What is at a moderate pace

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a curved line connecting different notes that means to play without tonguing.
What is a Slur
200
a beat or beats of a measured silence.
What is a Rest
200

a large ensemble which consists of human voices.

What is a choir

300
very soft.
What is Pianissimo
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(rit.) becoming slower.
What is a Ritardando
300
repeat the section indicated.
What is Repeat
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cancels out a sharp or flat. ♮
What is Natural
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all voices sing/play the same note
What is unison
400
how loud or soft the music should be played.
What is Dynamics
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(accel.) gradually getting faster.
What is Accelerando
400
a symbol that places F below middle C on the fourth line of the staff.
What is Bass Clef
400
sharp or flat symbols placed at the beginning of a staff line to designate which note should be raised or lowered, the key defines the tonality of a musical piece.
What is Key Signature
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The sound that is created when more than one note is played or sung at the same time.
What is a Harmony
500
to gradually become soft and light.
What is Diminendo
500

Andante

What is a walking pace

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a symbol that wraps around the G line at the beginning of the staff.
What is Treble Clef
500
the number written of a staff to indicate the meter, the top number tells how many beats are in each measure and the bottom number tells which kind of note gets a single beat.
What is Time Signature
500
a half note, a quarter note and an eighth note are all values of what?
What is a whole note.
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