Music Symbols

Staff

100

What has 5 lines/4 spaces?

Music Staff

200

What goes at the BEGINNING of the staff?

Clef! 

300

What goes at the end of a piece of music?

Double bar line

400

What separates or creates measures?

Barlines

500

What does the top # tell us in a time signature?

Beats per measure

Dynamics

100

I am the symbol for soft

Piano

200

I am the symbol for loud

Forte

300

What symbol says to get louder?

crescendo

400

What symbol says to get quieter?

decrescendo

500

The term for moderately loud

mezzo forte

Treble Clef

100

The saying for lines

Every Good Boy Does Fine

200

The saying for spaces

FACE

300

What note is on the fourth line?

D

400

What note is in the first space?

F

500

What note is on the third line?

B

Note Values

100

I get two beats of sound

Half note

200

I get 1 beat of silence

Quarter rest

300

I get 4 beats of sound

Whole note

400

I get 1/2 beat of sound

Eighth Note

500

I get three beats of sound

                        dotted half note

Note Value (rests)

100

I get 4 beats of silence

whole rest

200

I get 2 beats of silence

half rest

300

I get one beat of silence

quarter rest

400

How many beats of silence does a half rest and quarter rest get all together?

3 beats of silence

500

What rest is used to show silence for the entire measure?

Whole rest