Note Values
Time Signatures
The Rhythm Counts
Rhythm Terms
Potpourri
100
This note takes up the whole measure in quadruple time.
What is a whole note?
100
The top number of the signature tells us this.
What is how many beats/counts in a measure?
100
The first rule of counting rhythm.
What is look at the time signature?
100
The orderly movement of music in time. The heartbeat of the music.
What is rhythm?
100
A moderately slow tempo.
What is Andante?
200
A half notes gets this many counts.
What is 2?
200
4/4 is this kind of meter.
What is quadruple?
200
The second rule of counting rhythms.
What is every measure starts with one?
200
The organization of musical time.
What is meter?
200
A moderately fast tempo.
What is Allegro?
300
This note gets one count.
What is a quarter note?
300
3/4 is this kind of meter.
What is triple?
300
The third rule in counting rhythms.
What is circle the counts of notes that get more than one count?
300
This tells what meter is used and appears at the beginning of the music. You can't write counts in without it.
What is the time signature?
300
Accelerando is when the tempo does this.
What is gradually gets faster?
400
This note gets 1/2 count.
What is an eighth note?
400
2/4 is this kind of meter.
What is duple?
400
You find this between the bar lines (you don't use a ruler to determine it's length.)
What is a measure
400
A basic pattern/meter in music that is 3 beats.
What is triple?
400
When the tempo gets gradually slower we call it this.
What is Rallentando?
500
This note gets 1/4 of a beat.
What is a sixteenth note?
500
5/4, 7/4 and 9/8 are this type of meter.
What is uncommon meter?
500
If you end up with more numbers than what is in the time signature something is this.
What is incorrect?
500
The rate of speed or the pace of the music.
What is tempo?
500
Musical terms are usually written in this language.
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