Symbols
This symbol raises the pitch by a half step.
What is a sharp?
This time signature has 3 beats a measure and the quarter note gets the beat.
What is 3/4 time?
This term means to play smooth and connected.
What is legato?
This is a piece for two people.
What is a duet?
Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven belong to this time period 1750-1820
What is the Classical era?
This symbol lowers the pitch by a half step.
What is a flat?
This tempo is defined as "walking speed."
What is andante?
This word means to slow down gradually.
What is ritardando?
This musical style is a form of a short sonata, and features scale patterns, Alberti Bass in the left hand, and is often in ABA form.
What is a sonatina?
This composer wrote Ode to Joy and Fur Elise.
Who is Beethoven?
This symbol cancels a sharp or a flat.
What is a natural?
This tempo is defined as fast and lively.
What is allegro?
Example: Jingle Bells written in C, but then is played in key of G
What is transposition?
This dance in 3/4 was a favorite of Bach and uses this rhythmic pattern:
quarter-eighth-eighth-eighth-eighth
What is a minuet?
This instrument is the ancestor to the piano. It is smaller than the piano, has quills that pluck strings instead of hammers, and can have one or two keyboards.
What is a harpsichord?
This curved line connects two notes of the same pitch and the notes are held as one note for the combined value of both notes.
What is a tie?
This tempo means to play slooowly.
What is adagio?
Short and detached
What is staccato?
A left-hand broken chord pattern that is played in the order of bottom-top-middle-top
What is Alberti Bass?
Before plastic became the standard, piano keys used to be made of this material.
What is ivory?
This symbol means to hold the note longer than the note value.
What is a fermata?
This means to gradually speed up the tempo.
What is accelerando?
This measures distance between two notes.
What is an interval?
This fast dance piece is usually in 6/8 or 2/4 and gets its name from a spider.
What is a tarantella?
This composer wrote minuets, dance suites, preludes and fugues, and had 20 children.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?