The Music Page
Pitches
Rhythms
Time
Expression
100
The Bass clef also has this letter name.
What is the F clef? The treble clef is also called the B clef, of course.
100
There are three types of accidentals. They are:
What are sharps, flats, and naturals?
100
On a dotted quarter note, the dot has the same value as this note.
What is an eighth note?
100
The time signature 3/2 indicates how many of what type of note per measure?
What is three half notes?
100
The quietest dynamic is pp and the loudest is ff. The dynamic that indicates normal speaking voice is signified by this two-letter abbreviation.
What is mf?
200
This voice part is generally found written next under the soprano line, probably because it is the next highest part.
What is the alto, or mezzo-soprano line?
200
This note is two semitones above E.
What is F#?
200
A dotted half rest is worth this many sixteenth notes.
What is twelve sixteenth notes?
200
When counting beats in a measure, this is the word we insert between the numbers.
What is "and"? Ex: one and two and three and four and...
200
A crescendo tells a performer to do this.
What is get louder gradually?
300
The key signature is always placed between these two musical symbols.
What are the clef sign and the time signature?
300
This is the enharmonic tone for B♭.
What is A#?
300
This is the steady pulse we feel throughout a piece of music, whether or not it is always heard.
What is the beat?
300
This time signature indicates twelve eighth notes per measure, but with half notes getting the beat.
What is 4/2?
300
This is the "sandwich note" found between the two black keys on the piano keyboard.
What is D?
400
This is the number of male voice parts we would have if all of the voice parts we have discussed were written on the page.
What is 4? (Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Baritone, and Bass)
400
This is how long an accidental affects notes of the same pitch.
What is from the moment it is written until the end of the measure?
400
It is worth half of a dotted half note.
What is a dotted quarter note?
400
This is where the time signature is found.
What is the first measure of a song, immediately after the key signature?
400
This aspect of a word's pronunciation is what makes it possible for an audience to understand what word the choir is saying.
What are the consonants?
500
This great name is given to the pair of treble and bass staves when they are connected by the bar lines as a single unit.
What is the Grand Staff?
500
This note is six semitones below F.
What is B?
500
While a tie is often used to connect notes across a bar line, it is almost never used to connect rests. This is why:
What is because it is unnecessary to indicate that a rest doesn't need to be reattacked. How does a performer attack a rest?
500
This note is missing from a measure of 12/8 that contains two dotted quarter notes, two eighth notes, and two sixteenth notes.
What is a dotted quarter note?
500
This is the reason composers write music using the rules we've been learning.
What is to make it easy for a performer to understand?