Building Blocks of Music
This is the definition of Beat.
What is the steady underlying pulse within a piece of music?
What is: the top number is the number of beats per measure, and the bottom number indicates which note value equals a beat?
This is the meaning of "poco a poco."
What is little by little?
This is how you properly sing the two vowels in diphthongs.
What is: Remain singing the first vowel as long as possible.
The degrees of music's intensity are called this:
What are Dynamics?
This is the definition of Tempo.
What is the Italian word for "time?" It tells us the speed of the beat.
The first beat in each measure is called this.
What is a downbeat?
This is the difference between legato and staccato.
What is: legato is smooth and connected, whereas staccato is short and detached?
Singers have different singing registers separated by breaks where their larynx switches muscle groups to produce higher or lower sounds. The lowest is chest voice, followed by mix, and the highest is this:
These are the letters that make up the sforzando symbol?
This is the definition of "note."
What is a symbol that tells you to make sound?
This symbol indicates to cut off and don't continue playing or singing until the conductor gives a cue.
What is a caesura/grand pause?
Translate this direction: "subito piano"
What is "suddenly soft?"
This means to separate syllables or notes with an "h" sound.
What is aspiration.
Rank the dynamic levels from softest to loudest, starting with pianissimo.
What are pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo?
What is the symbol that tells you to be silent?
This is the correct order of the following tempo markings from fastest to slowest.
-Andante
-Allegro
-Adagio
-Presto
-Moderato
What is Presto, Allegro, Moderato, Andante, Adagio?
A horizontal line directly above a note tells us to hold the note to its full value for emphasis. This is the name of this symbol.
What is tenuto?
An attack/onset is this:
What is to create phrasing, or an expressive flow in your performance?
This is the definition of rhythm.
What is the pattern of sounds and silences created by the notes in your music?
This is what you do when you see a duplet in music.
What is: divide a beat that's usually divided by three into two?
Translate this direction into Italian: "get much slower"
What is "molto ritardando/rallentando?"
Seeing a > symbol above a note means this:
What is to "accent" the note, or give it added emphasis?
Translate: Fortississississississimo.
What is very very very very very very loud?