Pitch
What does pitch describe?
What is how high or low a sound is?
What is rhythm?
What is the pattern of sounds and silences in music?
What does “p” stand for in music dynamics?
What is piano (soft)?
What is tempo?
What is the speed of the beat?
What is timbre?
What is the unique sound or tone quality of an instrument or voice?
Which has a higher pitch: a flute or tuba?
Clap this rhythm: ♩♩ ♪ ♪ ♩
(Let students clap—just check accuracy.)
What dynamic marking means loud?
What is forte?
What does allegro mean?
What is fast?
What kind of texture is one melody with no accompaniment?
What is monophonic?
True or False: Pitch has nothing to do with frequency.
What is False?
What is a rest?
What is a silence in music?
What do we call a gradual increase in loudness?
What is a crescendo?
What does largo mean?
What is slow?
What texture is one melody with chords underneath?
What is homophonic?
What kind of pitch does a bass drum usually have?
What is a low pitch?
Which is longer: a quarter note or a whole note?
What is a whole note?
What symbol looks like this: “>” and means to emphasize a note?
What is an accent?
If the beat gets faster, what kind of tempo change is that?
What is accelerando?
What texture is many melodies played at once?
What is polyphonic?
Which family of instruments usually plays the highest pitches in an orchestra?
What is the woodwind family?
If a measure has 4 beats, which note value gets the beat?
What is the quarter note?
Name a dynamic change you heard in "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
What is a crescendo or decrescendo?
Which tempo is fastest: andante, presto, largo?
What is presto?
Name two instruments that have very different timbres.
What are (e.g., violin and snare drum)?