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Rhythm
Pitch
Odds & Ends
Sight Singing
Terms & Symbols
100
The steady pulse of all music.
What is beat?
100
A series of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which notes are written.
What is a staff?
100
a time signature in which there are two beats per measure and the quarter note recieves the beat.
What is a 2-4 meter?
100
A way of organizing rhythm.
What is a meter?
100
A vertical line that groups notes and rests together.
What is a barline?
200
A note that represents one beat of sound.
What is a quarter note?
200
The symbol at the beginning of a staff that indicates which lines and spaces represent which notes.
What is a clef?
200
A symbol that lowers the pitch of a given note one half step.
What is a flat?
200
Any meter in which the quarter note recieves the beat and the division of the beat is based on two eighth notes.
What is a simple meter?
200
The space between two barlines.
What is a measure?
300
The combination of long and short notes and rests.
What is rhythm?
300
A clef that generally indicates notes that sound lower than middle C.
What is a bass clef?
300
A curved line used to connect two or more notes of the same pitch in order to make one longer note.
What is a tie?
300
Any sharp, flat or natural that is not included in the key signature of a piece in music.
What is a accidental?
300
A set of two barlines that indicate the end of a piece of section of music.
What is a double barline?
400
A note that represents three beats of sound when the quarter note recieves the beat.
What is a dotted half note?
400
A clef that generally indicates notes that sound higher than middle C.
What is a treble clef?
400
The distance between two notes.
What is an interval?
400
Any meter in which the dotted quarter note recieves the beat and the division of the beat is based on three eighth notes.
What is a compound meter?
400
A symbol that indicates that a section of music should be repeated.
What is a repeat sign?
500
A symbol that increases the length of a given note by half its value.
What is a dot?
500
A staff that is created when two staves are joined together.
What is a grand staff?
500
Rhythms in which the second eighth note of each beat is played or sung like the last third of a triplet.
What is a swing rhythm?
500
A scale that uses no altered pitches or accidentals.
What is a diatonic scale?
500
A symbol in music used to indicate how loud of soft to sing.
What is a dynamic?