Terms to Know
Written symbols used to represent musical sounds.
What is a note?
Treble and bass clef joined together by a brace (or bracket).
What is a grand staff?
The note that gets one count in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter note?
The 7 letters in the musical alphabet.
What are A,B,C,D,E,F, and G?
These are the three main categories of meter
What are Simple, Compound, and Irregular?
These symbols alter the pitch of a note.
What are accidentals?
From the Latin word octo which means "eight."
What is an octave?
The symbol that represents silence in music.
What is a rest?
This scale uses only the white keys on the piano.
What is a C Major scale?
An example of Simple Duple meter.
What is 2/4? (2/2 or 2/8 are also acceptable)
This symbol tells you how many beats are in a measure.
What is a time signature?
The lines used to expand the range of the staff.
What are ledger lines?
There are 3 of these in a dotted quarter note.
What is an eighth note?
An E to an F on the piano.
What is a half step?
A 9/8 time signature is an example of this meter.
What is Compound Triple meter?
This term means how high or how low a note sounds.
What is pitch?
F A C E
What are the treble clef spaces?
Two notes that sound the same but are written differently are called ________ equivalents.
What is Enharmonic?
A scale made up of all the half steps within an octave.
What is a chromatic scale?
This note gets the beat in a 3/2 time signature.
What is a half note?
The identifying quality of sound.
What is timbre?
Good Boys Do Fine Always
What are the bass clef lines?
This term describes the cutting of note values in half again and again.
What is Subdivide?
The pattern of whole and half steps in a major scale.
What is W-W-H-W-W-W-H?
This note gets the pulse in a 12/8 time signature.
What is a dotted quarter note?