Rhythm
Pitch
Terms+Symbols
Sight Singing
Odds+Ends
100
The steady pulse of all music.
What is the beat?
100
A series of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which notes are written.
What is a staff?
100
A vertical line that groups notes and rests together.
What is a barline?
100
A note that represents half a beat of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is an eighth note?
100
A note that represents one quarter beat of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is a sixteenth note?
200
A way of organizing rhythm.
What is a meter.
200
How high or how low a note sounds.
What is the pitch?
200
The space between two barlines.
What is a measure?
200
A rest that represents half a beat of silence when that quarter receives the beat.
What is eighth rest?
200
A symbol that lowers the pitch of a given note one half step.
What is a flat?
300
A note that represents one beat of sound.
What is a quarter note?
300
A clef that generally indicates notes that sound higher than middle C.
What is a Treble Clef?
300
A set of two barlines that indicate the end of a piece or section of music.
What is a double barline?
300
A combination of three or more notes played or sung at the same time.
What is a chord?
300
A symbol that raises a given note one half step.
What is a sharp?
400
A rest that represents one beat of silence.
What is a quarter rest?
400
A clef that generally indicates notes that sound lower than middle C.
What is a bass clef?
400
A symbol that indicates that a section of music should be repeated.
What is a repeat sign?
400
A chord built on the home tone, or keynote, of a scale.
What is a tonic chord?
400
A curved line used to connect two or more notes of the same pitch in order to make one longer note.
What is a tie?
500
The set of numbers at the beginning of a piece of music.
What is the time signature?
500
A staff that is created when two staves are joined together.
What is a grand staff?
500
A symbol used in music to indicate how loud or soft the music should be.
What is dynamics?
500
A symbol that states that that note should be stressed more.
What is an accent?
500
Any meter in which the quarter note receives the beat in a division of the beat is based on two eighth notes.
What is a simple meter?