Terms to Know
Written symbols used to represent musical sounds.
What is a note?
Treble and bass clef joined together by a brace (or bracket).
What is a grand staff?
The note that gets one count in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter note?
The 7 letters in the musical alphabet.
What are A,B,C,D,E,F, and G?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
If G is Do, this is the note name of Sol.
What is D?
These symbols alter the pitch of a note.
What are accidentals?
From the Latin word that means "eight."
What is an octave?
The symbol that represents silence in music.
What is a rest?
This scale uses only the white keys on the piano.
What is a C Major scale?
The proper name of the solfège hand signs.
What is Kodaly?
This symbol tells you how many beats are in a measure.
What is a time signature?
The lines used to expand the range of the staff.
What are ledger lines?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
There are 3 of these in a dotted quarter note.
What is an eighth note?
An E to an F on the piano.
What is a half step?
These are the two enharmonic spellings for a B.
What are Ax (double sharp) and Cb?
This term means how high or how low a note sounds.
What is pitch?
F A C E
What are the treble clef spaces?
Two notes that sound the same but are written differently are called ________ equivalents.
What is Enharmonic?
A scale made up of all the half steps within an octave.
What is a chromatic scale?
The solfège syllables for scale numbers 4, 6, and 1
What are Fa, La, and Do?
The identifying quality of sound.
What is timbre?
The lines of the bass clef.
What are G B D F A?
This term describes the cutting of note values in half again and again.
What is Subdivide?
The pattern of whole and half steps in a major scale.
What is W-W-H-W-W-W-H?
The first two words in the song “Happy Birthday” use this interval.
What is a Major 2nd?