Key Signatures, Staffs, and Clefs
Time Signatures
Articulations
Dynamics
Rests
100

A key signature appears in this location.

What is at the beginning of the staff after the clef?

100

The top number of a time signature tells this.

What is the number of beats in a measure?

100

A dot above or below a note means this articulation.

What is staccato?

100

Forte means this. 

What is loud?

100

This rest lasts 1 beat in 4/4 time.

What is a quarter rest?

200

The musical staff has this many lines.

What is five?

200

The bottom number tells this.

What note value gets one beat?

200

Staccato notes should be played this way.

What is short and detached?


200

Pianissimo means this.

What is very softly?

200

This rest lasts 2 beats in 4/4 time.

What is a half rest?

300

This clef is also called the G clef.

What is the treble clef?

300

In 4/4 time, a quarter note gets this many beats.

What is 1 beat?

300

A legato indicates notes should be played this way.

What is smoothly connected?

300

Mezzo Forte means this. 

What is medium loud?

300

This rest lasts 4 beats in 4/4 time.

What is a whole rest?

400

This clef is also called the F clef.

What is the bass clef?

400

In 3/4 time, there are this many beats per measure.

What is 3?

400

An accent mark tells musicians to do this.

What is emphasize the note?

400

A crescendo means this.

What is gradually get louder?

400

Two eighth rests equal this rest.

What is a quarter rest?

500

The key of G major has this many sharps.

What is 1 sharp?

500

This time signature is the most common.

What is 4/4?

500

A dot next to a note does this. 

What is add half the value of the note before it?

500

A decrescendo means this.

What is gradually get softer?

500

A rest tells musicians to do this.

What is be silent (or stop playing)?