Music Terms
Tempo vocabulary relates to _____ in music
What is the speed?
Dynamics relate to how ______ or ______ the music is being played.
What is loud or soft?
What is a quarter note?
We have been playing this form of percussion in class.
What are bucket drums?
5 lines and four spaces, what we use to read written music.
What is the staff?
Beat
What is the steady pulse in music?
Piano
What is "soft"?
Two of these can fit into one quarter note.
What are eighth notes?
You can create a short repeated pattern, or an _________, using percussion.
What is an ostinato?
A person who writes music.
What is a composer?
Rhythm
What is a pattern of sounds and silences in music?
Forte
What is "loud"?
4 quarter notes take up this many beats.
What is 4 beats?
This is an example of a percussion instrument that you can shake.
What are maracas?
This person went totally deaf over time but continued to write music.
Who is Beethoven?
This symbol represents the sound in music.
What is a note?
Mezzo forte
What is "kind of loud"?
This rest gets one beat.
What is a quarter rest?
Percussionists (people who play percussion) are responsible for keeping this in a song.
What is a steady beat?
A symbol that tells us how many beats are in each measure and what note value gets the steady beat.
What is the time signature?
This symbol represents the silence in music.
Another word for loud or soft OTHER than Dynamics.
We read rhythm going in this direction.
What is left to right?
We use these three words to check in and make sure we are holding the sticks correctly.
What is "pinch, wrap, rest"?
What is an audience?