Music Vocabulary

The combination of simultaneous musical notes in a chord

A conventional category that identifies a piece of music

A device used by musicians that marks time at a selected rate (beats per minute)

A clef that looks like a vertical rectangle and is used with non-pitched percussion instruments

The character and quality of the sound of a musical instrument

The measurement that describes the number of beats in a measure

The way that melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre are combined, determining the overall quality of sound

The frequency of how high or low a note sounds

The organization of beats in time

The structure of the sections of a musical composition