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WorksheetsMusic Vocab Weeks 1-9
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
An arched line that connects two notes of the same pitch so the musician plays only one sustained note.
Tie
Tenuto
Legato
Slur
An arched line between/over two notes with different pitches that tells the musician to play the notes without separation
D.C. Al Coda
Accelerando
Slur
Unison
Symbol that tells a musician to play the note for its full value
System
Tenuto
Unison
Fortissimo
Dynamic telling the musician to play very soft.
Pianissimo
Fortissimo
System
Slur
Dynamic telling the musician to play very loud.
Pianissimo
D.C. Al Coda
Legato
Fortissimo
What is the sign at the beginning of a piece of music that tells us how many beats are in each measure and which note value is equal to one beat?
Key Signature
Time Signature
Measure
Repeat Sign
What is a single vertical line that is used to divide a musical staff into measures.
Barline
Measure
Time Signature
Double Barline
What is a symbol that indicates a section of music to be repeated?
Measure
Time Signature
Repeat Sign
Barline
What is a group of sharps or flats at the beginning of a piece of music?
Barline
Key Signature
Time Signature
Repeat Sign
What is a single segment of music?
Staff
Double Barline
Barline
Measure
These symbols tell a musician the loudness or softness of a sound.
Dynamics
Beat
Treble Clef
Tempo
The way time is organized in a piece; combinations and divisions of beats to create long and short sounds.
Staff
Rhythm
Bass Clef
Dynamics
The steady pulse of a piece of music; equal segments of time into which music is divided
Pitch
Key Signature
Beat
Interval
The highness or lowness of a sound
Dynamics
Bass Clef
Key Signature
Pitch
The distance between two pitches
Treble Clef
Interval
Staff
Tempo
What is the pace or speed of music?
Treble Clef
Rhythm
Tempo
Bass Clef
What is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch?
Staff
Treble Clef
Key Signature
Double Barline
What is a symbol placed at the beginning of a staff for notes sounding higher than "middle" c?
Staff
Treble Clef
Measure
Bass Clef
What are two vertical lines that indicate the end of the piece?
Time Signature
Repeat Sign
Barline
Double Barline
What is a symbol placed at the beginning of a staff for notes sounding lower than "middle" c?
Bass Clef
Treble Clef
Staff
Measure
What is an abbreviation telling the musician to go back to the beginning and play until the end?
D.C. Al Fine
D.C. Al Coda
Harmony
Repeat Sign
What is an abbreviation telling the musician to go back to the beginning, play until the Coda, and then play the coda/ending portion?
Flat
D.C. Al Coda
D.C. Al Fine
Natural
What is a sign that indicates a note should be held longer than its written value?
Beat
Melody
Fermata
Harmony
What is it when two or more notes sound at the same time; the complementary line or lines in a song?
Dynamics
Pitch
Melody
Harmony
What is a line of notes that move upward, downward, or repeats; the main most recognizable line of a song?
Contour
Melody
Harmony
Pitch
What is a symbol that tells the musician to play the pitches' original sound; cancels out a sharp or flat
Flat
Natural
Sharp
Contour
What is the "shape" of a melody; made by the way it moves up or down by steps, leaps or repeated notes?
Melody
Interval
Contour
Harmony
What is a symbol that raises the sound of a pitch a half step?
Pitch
Natural
Flat
Sharp
What is a symbol that lowers the sound of a pitch a half step?
Flat
Natural
Sharp
Pitch
What is it when you read or perform a piece of music at "first sight" or with very little practice?
Measure
Sight Reading
Melody
Harmony
What does it mean to play or sing soft?
Piano
Forte
Mezzo-piano
Flat
What does it mean to start louder, and get softer?
Crescendo
Decrescendo
Forte
Piano
What does it mean to play or sing medium-soft?
Sharp
Piano
Mezzo-piano
Forte
What does it mean to start quietly, and get louder?
Crescendo
Decrescendo
Forte
Piano
What does it mean to play or sing loud?
Natural
Piano
Mezzo- Piano
Forte
What is a dynamic telling the musician to play or sing medium-loud?
Mezzo-Piano
Mezzo-Forte
Piano
Forte
What tells the musician to play or sing the line of notes short and detached; sometimes notated by dots above each note?
Rhythm
Legato
Fermata
Staccato
What tells the musician to sing or play smoothly; sometimes notated by an arching line over notes?
Staccato
Fermata
Legato
Piano
What tells the musician to slow down while singing or playing; often abbreviated: rit. ?
Ritardando
Accelerando
Crescendo
Decrescendo
What tells the musician to speed up while singing or playing; often abbreviated accel. ?
Crescendo
Decrescendo
Ritardando
Accelerando
What is a symbol telling the musician to play or sing the notes stronger or louder than those around it?
Accent
Staccato
Legato
Forte
What is the term used to describe a scale or key that contains a major third from its first to third note; also is "Happy sounding"?
Unison
System
Major
Minor
What is the term used to describe a scale or key that contains a minor (or lowered) third from its first to third note; also is "Sad sounding" ?
Major
Minor
Unison
System
What is it when multiple instruments or voices play or sing the same thing at the same time?
Unison
System
Melody
Harmony
What is a group of 2 or more staves connected by a vertical line on the left indicating that each line is to be played or sung at the same time?
Barline
Double Barline
Staff
System
