2024 JH Semester Test

underlying steady pulse present in most music

• Beat

• Time Signature

• Fermata

• Ritardando

gradually slowing down

• Tempo

• Legato

• Ritardando

• Fermata

The main tune of a song, the part that is most strongly perceived by the audience

• D.C. al Fine

• Intonation

• Melody

• Composer

directions to a performer typically through symbols that indicate characteristics of the attack, duration, and decay of a given note (legato and staccato)

• Beat

• Articulation

• Tempo

• Arpeggio

marking indicating to the performer to hold the note as long as the conductor allows

• Rhythm

• Beat

• Tempo

• Fermata

Lowers the pitch

• Flat

• Sharp

• Interpretation

• Scale

Which dynamic level means soft

• fortissimo

• mezzo piano

• piano

• mezzo forte

Gradually speeding up

• D.C. al Fine

• Unison

• Accelerando

• Melody

duration or length notes and rests that occur in music; organizations of sounds and silences in time

• Beat

• Articulation

• Arpeggio

• Rhythm

All voices or instruments sing/play the same note

• Unison

• Accelrando

• Composer

• A Capella