Dynamics Quiz

What is the term for a short, total silence in music?

• Crescendo

• Caesura

• Decrescendo

• Fortissimo

What term describes gradually increasing in volume?

• Crescendo

• Decrescendo

• Mezzo-Forte

• Pianissimo

What term describes gradually decreasing in volume?

• Crescendo

• Decrescendo

• Mezzo-Piano

• Fortissimo

What is the term for a crescendo followed by a decrescendo and vice versa?

• Dynamic Swell

• Terraced Dynamics

• Rinforzando

• Sforzando

What term means to play a single note or passage loudly and then immediately softer?

• Forte-Piano

• Mezzo-Forte

• Forte-Piano Crescendo

• Subito

What term means moderately softly?

• Mezzo-Piano

• Mezzo-Forte

• Piano

• Pianissimo

What term means moderately loudly?

• Mezzo-Piano

• Mezzo-Forte

• Piano

• Pianissimo

What term means dying away and often appears at the end of a piece?

• Morendo

• Niénte

• Rinforzando

• Sforzando

What term means very softly?

• Piano

• Pianissimo

• Mezzo-Piano

• Mezzo-Forte

What term means softly?

• Piano

• Pianissimo

• Mezzo-Piano

• Mezzo-Forte