Symbol Values
Rules
Ancient Music Terms
Parts of the Staff
Music Math (add the beats together)
100
This note is worth one beat in 4/4 time
What is a quarter note?
100
This symbol means to read these staves together.
What is a bracket?
100
This instrument was made from the bones of vultures and is said to date back 40,000.
What is a flute?
100
The space between bar lines.
What is a measure?
100
Quarter eighth quarter quarter half whole half half whole eighth quarter whole
What is 23 beats?
200
Identify symbol and amount of beats, in 4/4/ time:
What is a quarter rest? 1 beat.
200
This instrument family typically plays on a one-line staff.
What is percussion?
200
This is the first type of monophonic music that was written down.
What is Plain chant?
200
The two types of bar lines.
What are single and double?
200
3 quarter notes
6 half notes
1 whole rest
3 eight notes
What is 20.5 beats
300
What type of note does not have an equivalent rest?
What is a dotted half note?
300
This hangs from the end of a single 8th note.
What is a flag?
300
This term means a way of learning music by ear, word of mouth, OR passed down from generation to generation.
What is "rote?"
300
These numbers are at the beginning of every piece of music and tell the reader how many beats per measure and what note gets one beat.
What is a time signature?
300
Whole half quarter half whole half quarter quarter eighth
What is 17.5 beats?
400
In 4/8 time, What rest takes up the entire measure?
What is a half rest?
400
This connects 8th notes.
What is a beam?
400
This term means "sign" in Greek and was the ancestor of modern day music notes.
What is a neume?
400
This symbol marks the end of a section or the entire piece of music.
What is a double bar?
400
Eighth eighth quarter eighth half whole eighth half whole
What is 15 beats?
500
3 of these notes= 6 beats in 3/2 time
What is a Whole Note?
500
In 2/4 and 3/4, this note/rest value is not used.
What are whole values?
500
Identify:
What is the Guidonian Hand?
500
This is the clef that is movable, and whose center notates C4, or middle C.
What is "C clef?"
Also acceptable:
What is Tenor Clef?
What is Alto Clef?
500
7 eighth notes
2 quarter notes
3 half rests
1 whole rest
What is 15.5 beats?