Note Values
This note gets 1 beat in 4/4 time
Quarter Note
This word means to gradually get louder
A crescendo
Choose between treble or bass: This note is on the bottom line of the staff.
E or G
This Italian word means to play "cheerful, quick, or fast."
Allegro
Who is the famous composer who wrote 600 different works, including Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?
Mozart
This note gets 2 beats in 4/4 time
A half note
What does mf stand for in music?
Mezzo Forte
This note is on the second space of the staff.
A or C
This French word means "the position and shape of the mouth of a wind player."
Embouchure
What baroque woodwind instrument was popular in medieval times and is still played in elementary school classrooms everywhere today?
The recorder
This note gets 3 beats in 4/4 time
Dotted half note
What symbol means to lower a note's pitch by a half step?
A flat sign
This note is on the middle/third line of the staff.
B or D
This word means to play at a medium soft volume.
Mezzo Piano
This German composer wrote several famous symphonies, even as he gradually became completely deaf.
Beethoven
This note gets 1/4 of a beat in 4/4 time
A sixteenth note
This articulation means to play light and separated
staccato
This note is on the very top of the staff, on the space above the fifth line.
G or B
This italian phrase means "to return to the original tempo."
A Tempo
If you have to play in the key of B Major, list the order of sharps or flats.
Five sharps: F#, C#, G#, D#, A#
This note gets 1 and 1/2 beats in 4/4 time
Dotted quarter note
This symbol means to hold a note out until a director cuts it off
A fermata
This note is on the very bottom of the staff, below the first line.
D or F
This word means only a section of the band will be playing this passage together
A soli
What is the name of the keyboard instrument that was played by plucking strings versus striking them? Hint: this instrument is from the baroque era and came before the piano.
The harpsichord.