Music Theory: Dynamics

This means to sing quietly in a piece of music...

• Forte; f

• Piano; p

• Mezzo-Piano; mp

• Fortissimo

This means to sing loudly in a piece of music...

• Piano; p

• Mezzo-Forte; mf

• Forte; f

• Mezzo-piano; mp

This symbol or notation means to gradually get louder...

• Decrescendo

• Fermata

• Rest

• Crescendo

This symbol or notation means to gradually get quieter...

• Fermata

• Decrescendo

• Crescendo

• Rest

This symbol indicates that you should hold out the length of the note until you are given a cutoff...

• Decrescendo

• Rest

• Fermata

• Crescendo