The Grand Staff
Voice parts
Note Types
Time Signatures
Dots, Ties, & pick-ups
100
This is the number of staves that make up the grand staff.
What is two?
100
The highest voice part is this.
What is soprano?
100
The full note is also know as this.
What is a whole note?
100
The time signature 4/4 indicates how many of what kind of note per measure?
What is four quarter notes?
100
This is used to indicate that a performer should continue holding a note past a bar line, without re-attacking it.
What is a tie?
200
The treble clef also has this letter name.
What is G?
200
In a normal choir, there are this many voice parts.
What is four? (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
200
A quarter note is equal to four of these.
What are sixteenth notes?
200
The most important beat in any measure is this one.
What is the first (or downbeat)?
200
This is the only note bigger than a whole note (without any ties).
What is a dotted whole note?
300
The two small dots next to the bass clef surround this note.
What is F?
300
The highest male voice part is this.
What is tenor?
300
This is the only note without a stem or dot.
What is a whole (or full) note?
300
This time signature indicates six eighth notes per measure, but with the half notes getting the beat.
What is 3/2?
300
On a dotted quarter note, the dot is equal to the value of this note.
What is an eighth note?
400
The note on the first ledger line above the bass clef staff has this mediocre name.
What is middle C?
400
The alto voice part is also called this.
What is mezzo-soprano?
400
A dotted half note is worth this many sixteenth notes.
What is twelve?
400
Of the numbers 1, 2, 4, and 8, this is the only one that can't be the bottom number of a time signature.
What is 1?
400
If a song in 3/4 time has a quarter note pick-up, this is the length of its last measure.
What is two beats, a half note, or two quarter notes?
500
This is the total number of lines on the Grand Staff.
What is 10?
500
This is the number of parts we would have if we used every voice type we discussed, and had a 1 and a 2 for each one.
What is 8? That is: soprano 1 & 2, alto 1 & 2, tenor 1 & 2, baritone, and bass. Don't forget "baritone" is the same as "bass 1."
500
This note has 6 flags.
What is a 256th note?
500
This note is missing from a measure of 12/8 that contains two dotted quarter notes, two dotted eighth notes, and two sixteenth notes.
What is a quarter note?
500
This is the technical term for a pick-up note.
What is an anacrusis?
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