Note Values
The amount of beats that a quarter note is worth.
What is 1 beat?
The speed at which a passage of music is played.
What is tempo?
Kind of Loud
What is Mezzo Forte?
A set of five lines on which music is written
What is the staff?
Are the notes on a treble staff higher or lower than notes on a bass staff?
Are the notes higher?
This note is worth two beats
What is a half note?
To gradually increase the tempo (i.e. to accelerate)
What is accelerando?
To gradually become louder over time.
What is crescendo?
What a flat sign does to a pitch
Does it lower it by a half step?
Put these voice parts in order from highest to lowest: Tenor, Soprano, Alto, Bass
What is Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass?
The amount of beats that a dotted quarter note is worth.
What is 1.5 beats?
To return to the original tempo
What is a tempo?
pianissimo
very quiet
Where the piano score is in relation to the vocal parts.
Is the piano score below the voice parts?
The reason that a lot of musical terms are in Italian.
Were Italian composers among the first to write down music, so their language was more prevalent?
This note is worth three beats.
What is a dotted half note?
A pause of unspecified length on a note or rest.
What is a fermata?
What is half, moderate, kinda?
A defined segment of time within a piece of music.
What is a measure?
The amount of beats per measure with a time signature of 12/8
What is 12 eighth notes?
The amount of beats that a dotted whole note is worth
What is 6 beats?
How a ritardando is different than a rallentando.
Is a rallentando the ending of the song (i.e. the "rally"), and the ritardando is just a slowing down?
How a decrescendo is different than a diminuendo.
Is a decrescendo just becoming more quiet, while a diminuendo is both becoming more quiet and slowing down?
There is an F# in the key signature, but in the music you see an F with a natural sign beside it. Is the note with the natural sign higher or lower than the F#?
Describe proper sitting posture for singing.
Is proper singing posture sitting up straight, feet on the ground, and shoulders back?