Loud
forte
What is the Italian Word for "loud"
mezzo forte
What is the Italian Word for "medium loud"
mezzo piano
What is the Italian term for "medium soft"
piano
What is the Italian word for "soft"
dynamics
What determines the loudness or softness of a composition
fortissimo
What is the Italian word for "very loud"
mf
What is the abbreviation for mezzo forte
mp
What is the abbreviation for mezzo piano
pianissimo
What is the Italian Word for "very softly"
What is the written form of an entire composition with notes and rests on a staff (staves)
fortississimo
What is the Italian word for "very, very loud"
pitch
What is the specific quality of a sound that makes it a recognizable tone
decrescendo
What is an Italian word for "becoming softer"
pianississimo
What is the Italian word for "very, very softly"
interval
ff
What is the abbreviation for "fortissimo"
crescendo
What is the Italian word for "getting louder"
diminuendo
What is an Italian word for "becoming softer"
ppp
What is the abbreviation for pianississimo
staff
What is a set of five, equidistant, horizontal lines in our system of musical notation
fff
What is the abbreviation for "fortississimo"
scale
What is a series of notes in ascending or descending order that presents the pitches of a specific key
morendo
What is the Italian word for "dying away"
al niente
What is the Italian term for "to nothing"
tablature
What was an archaic forms of musical notation used in the Medieval era and the Renaissance