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Music Reading Basics

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the 5 horizontal lines on which music is written called?

a)

Staff

b)

Notes

c)

Time Signature

d)

Clef

2.

What is this called?

a)

Treble Clef

b)

Bass Clef

c)

Time Signature

d)

Note

3.

What is this called?

a)

Bass Clef

b)

Treble Clef

c)

Note

d)

Time Signature

4.

What is the purpose of a clef?

a)

To tell the musician what the lines and spaces of the staff mean.

b)

To make the page look musical.

c)

To tell the musician how fast to play.

d)

To tell the musician what instrument to play.

5.

What are the vertical lines that divide the staff called?

a)

Measure/bar lines

b)

Time signature

c)

Clef

d)

Note

6.

What are the spaces between the measure/bar lines called?

a)

Measures/bars

b)

Notes

c)

Clefs

d)

Ledger Lines

7.

What are the two numbers stacked on top of each other called?

a)

Time Signature

b)

Measure Lines

c)

Clef

d)

Notes

8.

What does the time signature tell the musician?

a)

How many counts/beats each note gets.

b)

How high to play.

c)

What instrument to play.

d)

How fast to play.

9.

What do we call two music staves linked together, one treble clef and one bass clef?

a)

Grand Staff

b)

Notes

c)

Awful

d)

Confusing

10.

True or False: Some elements of sheet music don't mean anything and can be ignored.

a)

True

b)

False