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Meaning a slow tempo or slow speed. Sometimes it is the name of a work like Mozart's Adagio for Violin and Orchestra.
What is ADAGIO
100
Meaning to be performed sweetly or delicately.
What is DOLCE
100
Meaning wide, broad. In music a tempo marking meaning to be performed quite slowly.
What is LARGO
100
Symbols to represent sounds or pitches and duration of those sounds.
What is NOTES
100
a musical interval between pitches (such as C–D or C–B♭) comprising two half steps.
What is WHOLE STEP
200
Regular pattern within a bar or measure
What is BEAT
200
Getting softer; the opposite of crescendo.
What is DECRESCENDO
200
A musical interval (as E-F or B-C) equivalent to 1⁄12 of an octave.
What is HALF-STEP
200
An identifiable succession of musical sounds, but shorter than a complete melody.
What is MOTIF
200
Forceful, usually accented.
What is SFORZANDO
300
Meaning a walking tempo or walking pace; a moderate speed.
What is ANDANTE
300
1) A group of musicians playing together like an orchestra or a string quartet; 2) The actual act of playing as a unit, or performing together.
What is ENSEMBLE
300
This can also be called orchestration when assigned to an orchestra. It is the way a composer or arranger takes musical sounds and assigns them to specific instruments.
What is INSTRUMENTATION
300
A measurement of time in music that contains a specific number of pulses defined by a time signature, and that is contained within bar lines.
What is MEASURE
300
The rate of speed of a musical work.
What is TEMPO
400
When two or more notes or pitches are sounded simultaneously a chord is created.
What is CHORD
400
A symbol that tells the performer to hold the note as long as s/he would like, but certainly longer than the written note value
What is FERMATA
400
The simultaneous combination of pitches, especially when blended into chords that are pleasing to the ear.
What is HARMONY
400
Gently, soft.
What is PIANO
400
An ordered succession of adjacent pitches, arranged in a sequence of whole steps and half steps, for example the major or minor scales. A specific scale is defined by its characteristic interval pattern and by its most prominent pitch, known as its tonic.
What is SCALE
500
Meaning growing, as in a swelling of sound, or becoming louder.
What is CRESCENDO
500
Loud
What is FORTE
500
A group of pitches based on a particular tonic, and comprising a scale, regarded as forming the tonal basis of a piece or section of music.
What is KEY
500
The interval between two musical notes, the upper one of which has twice the pitch of the lower one. In a major or minor scale, the distance of this interval lies eight steps* away, hence the term “octave.”
What is OCTAVE
500
A pitch that is the first degree of a major or minor scale and the tonal center of a piece composed in a particular key.
What is TONIC