Music Vocabulary
This is a pattern of long and short sounds in music.
What is rhythm?
The ongoing pulse in music.
What is the steady beat?
If the music is very quiet, we use this Italian word.
What is piano?
This group of 5 lines is where we write music.
What is the staff?
This string instrument we learned has 4 strings and starts with a “U.”
“U.”What is a ukulele?
This word means to copy what someone else sings or plays.
What is echo?
In conducting, this pattern uses two beats.
What is 2/4?
This is the speed of the music.
What is tempo?
These vertical lines divide music into small sections.
What is the barline?
In “Do Re Mi,” these syllables are used to teach pitch.
What is solfège?
What is the speed of the beat?
What is Tempo
A song in triple meter has this many beats in each measure.
What is 3 beats?
A conductor uses small arm movements to show this kind of sound.
What is piano.
Barlines divide the staff into____.
What are measures?
The name of our national anthem.
What is "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
This word means how loud or soft music is.
What is dynamics?
2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 are all _____.
What are time signatures?
The musical word for volume in music.
What is dynamics?
The note that looks like a filled-in circle with a stick.
What is a quarter note?
Opening song from the musical Oklahoma about the start of the day.
What is Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
The opposite of forte
What is piano?
In the song "Grizzly Bear," when the song is loud the conductor's arms are _____.
What is big?
Getting gradually louder
What is crescendo?
The silent partner of the quarter note—looks like a squiggly line or zig-zag.
What is a quarter rest?
The Song Getting To Know You is from this musical.
What is The King And I?