Pitches
Rhythms
Musical Clefs
Octave Identification
Music Notation
100
This describes how high or how low the sound is.
What is pitch?
100
This is how long or short a sound is.
What is duration?
100
This appears at the beginning of a piece of music.
What is a clef or clef sign?
100
This particular note intersects the grand or piano staff and is the first note of Octave 1.
What is middle C?
100
This is the most common time signature found in music.
What is common time or 4/4?
200
This pitch is located on the fifth line in treble clef.
What is F2?
200
This note value is equal to one unit of time or one measure in common time.
What is a whole note?
200
This type of clef always intersects the line where middle C is located.
What is a C clef?
200
This note is located on the fourth space of the staff in bass clef?
What is Small G?
200
These are used to indicate the beginning and end of a measure.
What is a bar line?
300
This pitch is located on the third line of the staff in alto clef.
What is middle C?
300
This note value is worth one beat or a quarter of one measure in common time.
What is a quarter note?
300
Another name for this clef is the G clef.
What is the treble clef?
300
This is the highest octave on the piano.
What is the 5th Octave?
300
These are the four properties of sound.
What are pitch, duration, timbre, and intensity?
400
This pitch is located on the first line of the staff in bass clef.
What is Great G?
400
This note value is notated with two flags and is worth a sixteenth of one measure.
What is a sixteenth note.
400
Another name for this clef is the F clef.
What is the bass clef?
400
This is the lowest octave on the piano.
What is the Sub-Contra Octave?
400
When the note head sits on or above the third line of the staff, in any clef, the stem points in this direction and is located on this side of the note head.
What is down and to the left?
500
These pitches are located above or below the staff and contain or are notated with these type of lines.
What are ledger lines?
500
Eight of these note values equal four quarter notes.
What are eighth notes.
500
When the bass and treble clef are braced together they are called this.
What is the grand or piano staff?
500
A pitch that sits below the staff in bass clef and contains five ledger lines is identified by this octave.
What is the Contra Octave?
500
This particular element of a note is always located to the right of the stem.
What are flags?