A succession of single pitches or tones perceived as a meaningful unity; anything that is singable.
What is a melody?
100
The deliberate shifting of an accent to a weak beat or weak part of the beat.
What is a syncopation?
100
The quality of a sound; tone color.
What is timbre?
100
Loud in Italian
What is forte?
100
The violin belongs to which family?
What is the string family.
200
Two part form is called . . .
What is Binary form?
200
Tempo that indicates getting faster.
What is an accelerando?
200
Literally meaning “robbed time”—is an expressive technique performers use to speed up and slow down, enhancing the emotional impact of the performance.
What is rubato?
200
Soft in Italian
What is piano?
200
The trumpet belongs to which family?
What is the brass family.
300
The same tune started at different times
What is a round/fugue.
300
Gradually slowing down?
What is ritardando.
300
The sustained sounding of one or several tones for harmonic support.
What is a drone?
300
Gradually getting louder
What is a "crescendo"?
300
String instruction to pluck the string with the finger.
Pizzicato
400
Two or more melodic lines combined into a multi-voiced texture.
What is a polyphony?
400
Very fast in Italian
What is "presto"?
400
Sound that is produced by air.
What is an aerophone?
400
Gradually softer
What is decrescendo?
400
Music of the planets is translated as ______ in Latin.
What is musica universalis.
500
Single-line texture, or melody without accompaniment.
What is monophonic?
500
Very slow in Italian
What is "largo"?
500
Sound that is produced from tightly stretched membranes.