Music Terms
On the Beat
On the Staff
Instruments
Potpourri
100

This is the italian term for playing music loudly.

What is forte?
100

A note shaped like an egg receiving 4 beats in 4/4 time

What is a whole note?

100

The seven letters of the musical alphabet

What are ABCDEFG?

100

Instrument family to which the flute and clarinet belong

What is the woodwind family?

100

The director of a band or orchestra

What is a conductor?

200

How fast or slow the music is performed

What is tempo?

200

One beat of silence in 4/4 time

What is a quarter note?

200

The word that spells the spaces of the treble clef staff from bottom to top

What is FACE?

200

The trumpet has this many valves

What is 3?

200

Mrs. Teague's cat's name

What is Piper?

300

The symbol for gradually playing louder

What is crescendo?
300

Two of these notes create one beat in 4/4 time

What are eighth notes?

300

There are 5 of these on the musical staff

What are lines?

300

The instrument family to which snare drum and cymbals belong

What is the percussion family?

300

The composer who became deaf but continued to compose music

Who is Beethoven?

400

A musical symbol that requires the musician to play a section of the music again, noted by two vertical lines and two dots

What is a repeat sign?

400

A piece of music in 6/8 time has this many beats per measure

What is 6?

400

This clef is generally used by low sounding instruments like baritone and tuba

What is bass clef?

400

This wind instrument has no valves and uses a slide to change notes

What is trombone?

400

How brass instruments produce sound

What is buzzing?

500

To play short, light and detached, represented by a dot above or below a note

What is staccato?

500

Connecting two notes together to make a longer note, attached with a curved line

What is a tie?

500

The lines of the bass clef from bottom to top

What is GBDFA?

500

Mrs. Teague's main instrument

What is flute?

500

Clarinet and saxophone use this attached to the mouthpiece to produce

What is a reed?