The Musical Staff
Dynamics
Note Durations
Musical Terms
8th Grade Terms
100
The amount of lines on a musical staff

What are 5 lines?

100

This dynamic tells you to play soft

What is piano?

100

This note has four beats

What is a whole note?

100

___ are symbols for silence

What are rests?

100

To gradually get softer

Decrescendo

200

The amount of spaces on a musical staff

What are 4 spaces?

200

This dynamic tells you to play loud

What is forte?

200

This note has two beats

What is a half note?

200

Another name for the G Clef

What is the Treble Clef?

200

To gradually get louder

Crescendo

300

Letters in the musical alphabet

What is ABCDEFG?

300

This dynamic tells you to play medium loud

What is mezzo forte?

300

This note has one beat

What is a quarter note?

300

___ ___ are tiny lines that are used to extend the staff up or down.

What are ledger lines?

300

Walking tempo

What is moderato?

400

Symbols which represent pitches

What are notes?

400

This dynamic tells you to play medium soft

What is mezzo piano?

400

This note has a half of a beat

What is an eighth note?

400

This word describes how high or low a sound is

What is pitch?

400

The musical symbol that tells you to put emphasis at the front of the note (>)

What is an accent?

500

These clefs can appear at the beginning of a staff

What are treble and bass?

500

This dynamic tells you to play medium

Trick Question, but: What is mezzo?

500

This note has a quarter of a beat

What is a sixteenth note?

500
A symbol that raises or lowers a pitch

What is an accidental?

500

The flats and sharps that appear at the beginning of a piece to indicate which notes will be affected in the proceeding piece of music

What is a key signature?