Music Vocabulary
Note and Rest Values
Scales and Triads
Intervals
Italian Terms
100
It combines the treble and bass staves.
What is the grand staff?
100
What is a whole note?
100
Two whole steps above the tonic of F Major
What is A?
100
It spans six letter names
What is a sixth?
100
Moderately loud
What is mezzo forte?
200
It cancels a sharp or a flat.
What is a natural?
200
Two half rests equal this rest
What is a whole rest?
200
The dominant of A minor
What is E?
200
An interval made up of only one pitch and letter name
What is unison?
200
Detached
What is staccato?
300
A series of notes ascending or descending by step
What is a scale?
300
Two identical notes that together equal a quarter note
What are two eighth notes?
300
The third of G Major tonic triad
What is B?
300
It measures the distance between the lower tonic and the upper tonic of a scale
What is an octave?
300
Becoming louder
What is crescendo?
400
Two notes sounding one after the other
What is a melodic interval?
400
Three of these notes equal a dotted half note
What is a quarter note?
400
The leading tone of G Major
What is F#?
400
The interval of C to A
What is a sixth?
400
Slow
What is lento?
500
A symbol for 4/4 time?
500
Six of these identical notes equal a dotted quarter note
What is a sixteenth note?
500
The tonic of the dominant scale of C Major
What is G?
500
A third above the second above G
What is D?
500
Held, sustained
What is tenuto?