4th Grade Unit 1 Music Vocab

The different levels of loudness and softness of sound.

• Call and Response

• Duple Meter

• Dynamics

• Strong Beat

• Weak Beat

Usually the first beat in a measure.

• Call and Response

• Duple Meter

• Dynamics

• Strong Beat

• Weak Beat

Usually the second or last beat in a measure.

• Call and Response

• Duple Meter

• Dynamics

• Strong Beat

• Weak Beat

A basic pattern in which a measure has one strong and one weak beat.

• Call and Response

• Duple Meter

• Dynamics

• Strong Beat

• Weak Beat

A musical device in which a portion of a melody is followed by an answering portion.

• Call and Response

• Duple Meter

• Dynamics

• Strong Beat

• Weak Beat

The distance between two pitches.

• Interval

• Pentatonic Scale

• Texture

• Timbre

• Tonal Center

A scale of five notes.

• Interval

• Pentatonic Scale

• Texture

• Timbre

• Tonal Center

A pitch that acts as a resting place or "home" for all of the other pitches that happen around it.

• Interval

• Pentatonic Scale

• Texture

• Timbre

• Tonal Center

The unique quality or tone color of sounds.

• Interval

• Pentatonic Scale

• Texture

• Timbre

• Tonal Center

The layering of sounds to create a thick or thin quality in music.

• Interval

• Pentatonic Scale

• Texture

• Timbre

• Tonal Center