Dynamics
The term for 'soft' or 'quiet.'
Piano
The Major Key with no sharps or flats.
C Major
A stringed musical instrument of treble pitch, played with a horsehair bow.
Violin
A prolific and influential composer of the Classical era, considered one of the greatest in Western classical music history.
Mozart
A three-note chord built using the first, third, and fifth notes of a major scale.
Major Chord
The term for 'loud' or 'strong.'
Forte
The Major Key with 1 sharp.
G major
A bass instrument of the violin family, held upright on the floor between the legs of the seated player.
Cello
A German composer and pianist who bridged the Classical and Romantic eras of Western music.
Beethoven
A major chord that has the middle note lowered a half step.
Minor Chord
The musical word that means 'smoothly.'
Legato
The Key signature with 3 sharps.
A Major
A musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers.
Harp
A German composer and organist from the late Baroque period.
Bach
A major chord in which the third and fifth are lowered a half-step.
Diminished Chord
The musical term for each note sharply detached or separated from the others.
Staccato
The Major Key with 3 flats.
Eb Major
A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece.
Lyre
An Italian composer and virtuoso violinist of the Baroque era.
Vivaldi
A chord made by taking a Major chord and raising the fifth by a half step.
Augmented Chord
The term for a gradual decrease in the loudness of a piece of music.
Diminuendo
The Key signature with 6 sharps.
F# Major
A plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets and a rounded body with a flat front that is shaped like a halved egg.
Lute
An Austrian composer of the Classical period that was instrumental in the development of chamber music.
Haydn
A chord made by taking a minor 7th chord and lowering the fifth a half step.
Half-Diminished Chord