Hearing Music
Careers in Music
Piano
Music Vocab
Creating Music
100
The loudness or softness of sound
What is dynamics?
100
This professional writes music
What is a composer?
100
This instrument belongs to the String and Percussion instrument families.
What is the piano?
100
This symbol means to hold everything!
What is a fermata?
100
Five lines and Four spaces
What is a staff?
200
The speed of music
What is tempo?
200
This professional is responsible for penning lyrics, coming up with the melody, or both.
What is a songwriter?
200
Go back to the beginning of the musical piece.
What is a repeat sign?
200
lowers a note by a half step
What is a flat?
200
This note is held for 3 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a dotted half note?
300
Gradually get softer
What is decrescendo?
300
This professional plays songs at a nightclub, bar, rave, or party using vinyl records, CDs, or MP3s
What is a DJ?
300
2 or more notes played at the same time.
What is a chord?
300
highest male voice type
What is a countertenor?
300
Based off this time signature, there are six 8th notes per measure.
What is 6/8?
400
ABA, Call and Response, and ABACADA
What is form?
400
This musician works with nurses, teachers, physical therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and/or family members to restore a patient's health.
What is a music therapist?
400
Finger four
What is the ring finger?
400
Handel's Messiah is considered to be this type of genre.
What is an oratorio?
400
Generally expressed as a fraction with the denominator defining the beat as a division of a whole note and the numerator giving the number of beats in each bar.
What is a time signature?
500
Gradually get louder
What is crescendo?
500
Provides backup vocals to other singers and musicians in recordings, commercial jingles, or live performances.
What is a Background Singer?
500
This term means VERY soft.
What is pianissimo?
500
Gradually get slower
What is ritardando?
500
The rest that look just like a hat.
What is a half note?