What's the time?
The numbers at the start of a piece of music.
What is a time signature?
Sharps or flats at the beginning of a piece of music.
What is a key signature?
A composition with two main sections, A and B.
What is binary form?
This is the Italian word for soft in a piece of music.
What is piano?
The sound source or instrument you can hear in a piece of music.
What is performing media?
Unison, one melodic line or a single layer is used to describe this texture.
What is monophonic?
An Italian term meaning gradually getting slower.
What is ritardando?
The smallest interval in western music.
What is a semitone?
A common structure for popular music.
What is verse, chorus form?
A guitarist uses this triangular shaped device to pluck of strum the strings.
What is a plectrum (pick)?
This sound source is used to describe an unknown wind instrument.
What is an aerophone?
The lead vocalist has this role in a band.
What is melodic role?
A repeated rhythmic pattern.
What is an ostinato?
The overall shape of a melody.
What is contour?
The main sections of a piece of music use this structure component.
What is macro structure?
This Italian term means to pluck.
What is pizzicato?
The harp belongs to this family of the orchestra.
What is the string family?
The amount of layers in a piece of music refers to this.
What is density?
Patterns of long and short sounds and silences.
What is rhythm?
A two chord progression that acts like a punctuation point in a musical phrase or section.
What is a cadence?
The smaller components of a piece of music refer to this type of structure.
What is micro structure?
This device is used in the bell of a brass instrument to enhance its sound.
What is a mute?
A French sounding word that means tone colour.
What is timbre?
A texture type with multiple melodic lines at the same time.
What is polyphonic?
Occurs when the accent is on a weaker beat.
What is syncopation?
When two, three or more pitches occur at the same time.
What is harmony?
This structure has 3 main sections A, B and A.
What is ternary form?
Fortissimo is used to describe this dynamic.
What is very loud?
This large group is made of voice types: soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
What is a choir?
A melody or melodic fragment copied by another instrument.
What is imitation?