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Musical Terms
To Speed or Not?
The String's the Thing
True or False?
How Long?
100
This person directs a band or orchestra
Who is the conductor?
100
True or False: Legato means smooth and connected.
What is "true"?
100
True or False: a string quartet consists of two violins, cello and a guitar.
What is "False"? There is no guitar in a string quartet, there is a string bass.
100
True or False: A scale can be major or minor.
What is "True"?
100
This note gets one beat.
What is "a quarter note"?
200
This term means to gradually speed up.
What is Ritardando?
200
This term means short and detached.
What is "Staccato"?
200
This term indicates the speed of the music.
What is "Tempo"?
200
This term means to play at a medium speed.
What is "Moderato"?
200
This term means soft.
What is "piano"?
300
A staff has how many lines and how many spaces?
What is 5 lines and 4 spaces?
300
This means to play loud.
What is "forte"?
300
This term means two or more tones sounded at the same time.
What is "Harmony"?
300
This term lowers a pitch one-half step.
What is "a flat"?
300
This term means "the end."
What is "Fine"?
400
This term means very loud.
What is Fortissimo?
400
This term means to play fast.
What is "allegro"?
400
True or False: a composer is a person who directs a band or orchestra.
What is "False"?
400
This term means to play at a medium speed.
What is "Moderato"?
400
In 4/4 time, this receives one beat.
What is "a quarter note"?
500
This musical term means to play slowly.
What is lento?
500
This term is the space on a music staff between two bar lines.
What is "a measure"
500
This term indicates how loud or soft music should be played.
What is "Dynamics"?
500
This term means to pause or hold.
What is "a fermata"?
500
This type of song is where different groups of people sing or play the same music, but at different times.
What is "a canon"?