Notes
Pitches
Key Signatures
Expressions and Symbols
Musical Terms in Italian
100

If you are in 4/4 time, this note gets one beat.

What is a quarter Note?

100

This pitch is on the bottom line of the Treble staff.

What is an E?

100

This key has no sharps or flats in its key signature.

What is C major?

100

This is what you do if you see Rit. in a piece of music.

What is gradually slow down?

100

This means "from the head/top" in Italian

What is Da Capo?

200

If you are in 4/4 time, the dotted half note gets this many beats

What is 3 beats?

200

If you are on the Bass staff, this note is on the top space.

What is a G?

200

The key of A has this many sharps.

What is 3?

200

This is what you do when you come a across a fermata.

What is hold the note for longer than its prescribed value?

200

This musical term means "to grow" in Italian, and means to grow louder

What is Crescendo?

300

If you are in 3/4 time, the 8th note receives this many beats

What is half of a beat (or .5)?

300

The acronym FACE refers to this

What are the spaces on a treble staff from bottom to top?

300

The key of Ab has this many flats.

What is 4?

300

This symbol has a double bar line with two dots, and means this

What is a repeat sign, and what is go back to the beginning, or back to the reverse repeat sign if applicable?

300

This means "from the sign" in Italian

What is Dal Segno?

400

If you are in 6/8 time, this note gets three beats

What is a dotted quarter note?

400

This is the space right below the Bass staff

What is F?

400

The key of F# has this many sharps

What is 6?

400

The expression used if you would like someone to gradually speed up.

What is Accelerando?

400

This means "to hold" in Italian, and means to hold for its full value, or lean on the note for slight emphasis.

What is Tenuto?

500

If you are in 3/4 time, this is what you would use in order to put three notes in one beat.

What is a triplet?

500

This pitch on the line between the Bass staff and the Treble staff within a Grand Staff.

What is Middle C?

500

This key has one flat

What is F?

500

This is what you did when you saw f-p at the beginning of Contrary Cakewalk

What is play loud the first time through, and then play softly on the repeat?

500

This term means "detached" in Italian and it is the opposite of tenuto, because it plays shorter than the value of the note.

What is Staccato?