Notes and Such
If you had two of these, they would make a quarter note.
What are two eight notes?
The speed of the steady beat.
What is tempo?
Four quarter notes equal
What is one whole note?
This is a single unaccompanied melody that corresponds to a religious text.
What is Plainchant?
When things are passed down through word of mouth instead of in writing.
What is oral tradition?
If you are descending when saying the musical alphabet, this comes after "B."
What is "A"?
The five lines and four spaces on which music is written.
What is the staff?
If you split a whole note in half, you get this.
What are two half notes?
Name a Medieval ideal.
All beauty comes from the divine.
Humans should look to the divine.
Name another Medieval ideal.
Humans are a small part of a grand cosmos.
There is a peaceful order to the world.
Two notes that are adjacent on the staff.
What is a step?
The slowest tempo marking.
The top number of a time signature tells us this.
What how many beats per measure?
The third melody above a line of plainchant.
What is the triplum?
The period of musical history that lasts from 1750-1800.
What is the Classical era?
A step that skips one note on the keyboard.
What is an accent?
The bottom number of a time signature tell us this.
What is the type of note that gets the beat?
An elongated plainchant melody
What is a tenor?
The second melody above a line of plainchant.
What is the duplum?
Two notes with the same name that are 8 lines/spaces apart.
What is an octave?
The term that indicates an increase in volume.
What is crescendo?
The definition of rhythm.
What is "the division and combination of beats"?
The type of notation that developed when people started wanting to write down their music more accurately.
What is neumatic notation?
Who are Leonin and Perotin?