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Form
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Potpourri
100
A note with the head colored in and a long stem.
What is a quarter note?
100
In this meter, the quarter note gets one beat and there are four beats to a measure.
What is 4/4 time?
100
This is the alphabet letter we give to the first pattern of a piece of music.
What is A?
100
This curved lin under the same note ties them together.
What is a tie?
100
This symbol raises the pitch one half step.
What is a sharp?
200
A note with a hollow head and a stem.
What is a half note?
200
In this measure there are three beats in the measure and the quarter note gets one beat.
What is 3/4 time?
200
This part of a song is usually the same and comes between the verses.
What is the chorus?
200
A dot under these notes means to play them short.
What is staccato?
200
This symbol lowers the pitch one half step.
What is a flat.
300
Two notes joined together with a bar on top.
What is two eighth notes?
300
In this meter there is two beats to the measure and the quarter note gets one beat.
What is 2/4 time?
300
This section bridges parts of the song together and is usually only performed once.
What is a bridge?
300
A curved line under two different notes means to play them smooth and connected.
What is a slur?
300
This curly figure in the beginning of the staff means the notes will be higher pitched.
What is a treble clef?
400
A note that is hollow with no stem.
What is a whole note?
400
In this meter there are six beats to a measure and the eighth note gets one beat.
What is 6/8 time?
400
This form keeps coming back around to A.
What is rondo?
400
This word tells us to play very loud.
What is fortissimo?
400
This sign with a double bar means to go back and do it again.
What is a repeat sign?
500
A rest that looks like a hat.
What is a half rest?
500
The "C" at the beginning instead of a time signature is the same as 4/4 time.
What is Common time?
500
This form starts with a melody and then it is changed several times, but it it always based on that melody.
What is Theme and Variations?
500
This word means to play at walking tempo.
What is andante?
500
This word tells you you are at the end of a piece.
What is a coda?