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Rhythm
Melody & Harmony
Key
100
Degrees of loudness and softness in music.
What are dynamics?
100
Low male voice type.
What is a bass?
100
The rate of speed of the beat of music.
What is tempo?
100
Short and detached articulation.
What is staccato?
100
A series of tones arranged from low to high or high to low.
What is a scale?
200
The distance between the highest and lowest tones an instrument or voice can produce.
What is pitch range (range)?
200
An instrument that has many sets of pipes controlled from several keyboards, including a pedal keyboard.
What is a pipe organ?
200
The organization of beats in regular groupings.
What is meter?
200
Three OR more notes sounded at the same time.
What is a chord?
200
Changing keys in the middle of a composition.
What is a modulation?
300
Another term is tone color.
What is timbre?
300
The trombone is categorized as this type of instrument.
What is brass?
300
Tempo indication for "a walking pace"
What is andante?
300
The second most important chord in a progression.
What is the dominant chord?
300
Refers to a central tone, scale, and chord.
What is key?
400
The Italian term for moderately soft.
What is mezzo piano?
400
When the string player produces a throbbing, expressive tone by rocking the left hand while pressing the string down. This causes small pitch fluctuations that make the tone warmer.
What is vibrato?
400

Italian term used to indicate a gradual increase in the tempo.

What is accellerando?

400

when individual tones of a chord are sounded one after the other

What is arpeggio or broken chord?

500

Italian word for gradually getting louder

What is crescendo?

500

The flow of music through time

What is rhythm?

500

Progression from dissonance to consonance

What is resolution?