5th Grade Strings Vocabulary

Definitions

100

Three main points of string playing

What is Weight, Speed and Contact Point?

200

Term which means, pluck the string

What is pizzicato?

300

This is the symbol which makes the note higher by one half step.

what is a sharp?

400

This is the symbol that make a note one half step lower.

What is a flat?

500

This is the symbol that cancels the key signature for one measure.

What is an accidental?

Dynamics

100

Piano

what is soft

200

forte

what is loud or strong?

300

what is gradually getting louder

crescendo

400

what is gradually getting softer

diminuendo, decreschendo

500

Mezzo

what is medium (Italian)

Bow strokes

100

V

what is an up bow?(pushing your bow to the left?)

200

П 

what is a down bow, pulling or your bow to the right

300

Smooth and Connected

What is Legato?

400

Short and Separated

what is staccatto?

500

Slur

What is more than one note in the same bow direction?

Clef lines and spaces

100

Bottom line of the bass clef.

What is the note G?(open G)

200

This is the clef the cellos play from

What is the bass clef?

300

This is the clef the violins play from

What is a Treble Clef? G clef

400

This is the clef the violas play from

what is the alto or c clef?

500

This is the highest string on the violin 

what is the E string

Random facts of Mrs. Jones

100

This is Mrs. Jones' cat's name.

Who is Buttercup?

200

This is Mrs. Jones' favorite baseball team.

What is the Cardinals? 

300

This is Mrs. Jones' oldest violin's name.

What is Violet?

400

This is Mrs. Jones' favorite college team.

What is the Missouri Tigers or Mizzou?

500

This is Mrs. Jones' favorite candy.

what is Peanut M & M's ?

More Vocab

100

This has 5 lines and 4 spaces

staff

200

This tells you what sharps, flats or naturals to play for the whole piece.

What is a key signature

300

This tells you how many beats in each measure and which kind of a note gets one beat at the beginning of a piece.

What is a Time Signature?

400

This term means to speed up.

What is an accelerando?

500

This term means to slow down.

What is a rit. or ritardondo?

Even More

100

This is the term which tells you the speed of a piece of music.

What is tempo?

200

This term means to play with the bow.

What is Arco?

300

This is the term that tells you to play something again

What is repeat?

400

This is a term which means to go up in pitch one note at a time in a specific sequence. Sometimes we come back down.

What is a scale?

500

This is the term that means to go to the beginning.

What is Da Capo, or D.C.?