Performance Directions: Grade 1

What does "adagio" mean?

• Fast

• Long

• Slow

• Gradually get softer

What does "allegro" mean?

• Slow

• Gradually get softer

• At a walking pace

• Fast

What does "ritenuto (ritard. or rit.)" mean?

• At a walking pace

• Held back

• Fast

• Slow

What does "cantabile" mean?

• In an agressive style

• In a singing style

• Funeral march

• Faster

What does this symbol mean?

• To stop

• To pause

• To go faster

• That the music has ended

Which musical symbol is this?

• A slur

• A repeat sign

• A tie

• None of the above

Which musical symbol is this?

• A key signature

• A fermata

• A staccato

• None of the above

This symbol means to ________.

• Repeat

• Stop

• Continue on to the next measure

• Pause

This musical symbol means to

• Play detached

• Pause

• Change the key of the music

• Play smoothly

FF stands for

• Very loud

• Forter

• Forte

• Fortissimo