Key Signatures
The major key with no sharps or flats in the key signature.
What is C major?
This note gets one beat in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter note?
The top number in this time signature tells you there are 4 beats per measure.
What is 4/4 time?
This symbol means to raise a note by a half step.
What is a sharp?
The Italian word meaning “fast.”
What is allegro?
The major key with one sharp in the key signature.
What is G major?
This rest is equal in time to a whole note.
What is a whole rest?
This time signature means three beats per measure.
What is 3/4?
This symbol cancels a sharp or flat.
What is a natural?
The term for the speed of the beat.
What is tempo?
The minor key that has three flats.
What is C minor?
This note lasts for half a beat in 4/4 time.
What is an eighth note?
The bottom number 8 in a time signature tells you this note gets one beat.
What is an eighth note?
This symbol means to play gradually louder.
What is a crescendo?
The distance between two notes.
What is an interval?
The major key that has five sharps.
What is B major?
The value of a dotted half note in 4/4 time.
What is three beats?
This time signature is considered compound duple.
What is 6/8?
Two vertical lines, one thick and one thin, at the end of a piece.
What is a final bar line?
The term for the tone quality or color of a sound.
What is timbre?
The relative major of B-flat minor.
What is D-flat major?
This combination of notes adds up to one full measure of 6/8 time.
What are six eighth notes?
This time signature has five beats per measure.
What is 5/4?
This symbol looks like a sideways “S” with two dots and tells you to repeat.
What is a repeat sign?
The term for the organization of strong and weak beats.
What is meter?