Note Values
Receives 1 beat of sound.
What is a Quarter Note?
Receives 1 beat of silence.
What is a Quarter Rest?
Play soft, using less weight in the bow.
What is piano?
How fast or slow music is played.
What is tempo?
Played short, separated.
What is staccato?
Receives 4 beats of sound.
What is a Whole Note?
Receives 2 beats of silence.
What is a Half Rest?
Dynamic sign meaning medium-loud.
What is mezzo forte?
What is the music staff?
Played smoothly and connected.
What is legato?
Receives 3 beats of sound.
What is a Dotted Half Note?
Dynamic sign meaning medium-soft (quiet).
What is mezzo piano?
Notes connected smoothly in one bow stroke.
What is a slur?
Emphasize a note by adding extra weight, or bite, with the bow.
What is an accent?
Receives one half of a beat of sound
What is an Eighth Note?
Receives one half of a beat of silence.
What is an eighth rest?
Gradually getting louder, abbr. cresc.
What is a crescendo?
To pluck the string.
What is pizzicato?
Hold the note longer than its normal value or until the director cuts you off.
What is a fermata?
Receives one and a half beats of sound
What is a Dotted Quarter Note?
Receives one fourth of a beat of silence.
What is a sixteenth rest?
Play very, very, very loud, adding more weight to the bow.
What is fortississimo?
The distance between two bar lines.
What is a measure?
To play two or more notes in the same bow direction, stopping the bow between notes.
What is hooked bowing?