Elements of Music Jeopardy

Duration

100

This is the steady heartbeat of music that you can easily clap along too

Beat

200

This four-beat note looks like an empty circle without a stem

Whole Note

300

This term refers to the speed of music (i.e. allegro for fast or adagio for slow)

Tempo

400

This symbol represents a period of silence in music 

Rest

500

When a rhythm puts an emphasis on "off-beat" or "weak-beat", it is called this:

Think about the note that goes ti-ta-ti

Syncopation (Syn-co-pa)

Dynamics

100

The Italian word for loud, which is music is often represented by the letter f

Forte

200

The Italian word for soft, often represented by the letter p

Piano

300

This dynamic marking means "medium-soft"

Mezzo-piano

400

This symbol like this (<) tells the musician to gradually play louder

Crescendo

500

This dynamic term means a "sudden, strong emphasis" or "strong attack" on a single note that fades away

Think (s f z)

Sforzando

Timbre

100

This is the common name of the four main groups of instruments: brass, percussion, strings and woodwind

Instrument families

200

This string instrument is larger than a violin but smaller than a cello

Viola

300

If a singer has a high female voice, they are known as this kind of singer

Think there is a show named after this

Soprano

400

This woodwind instrument has a "double reed" and a distinct, nasally sound

Oboe (or Basoon)

500

This term describes the specific quality of a sound that allows us to tell a trumpet apart from a flute 

Tone Colour (or Timbre)

Pitch

100

This term describes how high or low a sound is

Pitch

200

What do you call the five note scale often used folk songs?

The Pentatonic Scale

300

This symbol at the beginning of the staff tells musicians that they are playing higher notes on the Grand Staff

Treble Clef

400

This is the distance between two notes, for example from "low C" to "high C". Think about the different types of singers

Octave

500

These are the two types of tonality often associated with one sounding "happy" and the other sounding "sad" to the listener

Major and Minor keys

Texture & Form

100

This simple form has two sections, often called Section A and Section B

Binary Form

200

When only one melody is played or sung without any backup this is called what kind of texture?

Monophonic

300

In this form, A-B-A the music starts with one section, changes to a second, and then returns to the first

Ternary Form

400

This is the most common texture in pop music: a main melody supported by chords (like a singer with a guitar)

Homophonic

500

If you and a friend sing "Row Row, Row Your Boat" starting at different times, you are performing this type of polyphonic texture

A Round (Or Canon)