Music Vocab

any sharp, flat, or natural sign which appears in the music without being in the key signature

• accidental

• flat

• sharp

• scale

underlying steady pulse present in most music

• tempo

• composer

• beat

• melody

one who creates music compositions

• interval

• writer

• composer

• phrase

level or range of loudness of a sound or sounds

• rest

• rhythm

• scale

• dynamics

distance between two notes

• rest

• rhythm

• unison

• intervals

singing or playing the correct pitch in tune

• intonation

• tone

• scale

• tempo

the main tune of a song, the part that is most strongly perceived by the audience

• tone

• unison

• melody

• interval

the top number is how many beats per measure; the bottom number is what note gets the beat

• time signature

• key signature

• rhythm

• scale

duration or length of notes and rests that occur in music; organization of sounds and silences in time

• phrase

• unison

• arpeggio

• rhythm

pattern of pitches arranged in ascending or descending order and identified by their specific arrangement of whole and half steps

• arpeggio

• scale

• repeat sign

• natural