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Musical Terms and Symbols - 6th Grade

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this symbol called?

a)

Key Signature

b)

Time Signature

c)

Musical fraction

d)

A clef

2.

The top number of a time signature tells you...

a)

How many notes in a measure

b)

How many beats in each measure

c)

How many parts of the whole

d)

How many people will play

3.

What are the flats and sharps at the beginning of each measure called?

a)

Time signature

b)

Note place holders

c)

Key signature

d)

Key strokes

4.

The volume of music/the loudness and softness of sounds is called...

a)

Articulation

b)

Rhythm

c)

Dynamics

d)

Timbre

5.

These symbols represent

a)

Dynamics

b)

Articulation

c)

Timbre

d)

Rhythm

6.

What is this symbol called?

a)

Forte

b)

Dynamics

c)

Decrescendo

d)

Crescendo

7.

What is this symbol called?

a)

Accent

b)

Staccato

c)

Slur

d)

Dynamics

8.

How many beats are in a measure here?

a)

8

b)

3/4

c)

1

d)

6

9.

What kind of rest is this?

a)

Quarter

b)

Half

c)

Eighth

d)

Whole

10.

What kind of rest is this?

a)

Eighth

b)

Whole

c)

Quarter

d)

Half

11.

How many 16th notes will fit in a full measure in 4/4 time?

a)

4

b)

1

c)

16

d)

8

12.

True or False: beat is the pulse of music

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or False: Rhythm is beat

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Which musical term means the weak beat becomes strong/the weak beat is tied to the strong beat/ the upbeat is no longer the weak beat?

a)

Dynamics

b)

Rhythm

c)

Articulation

d)

Syncopation

15.

Articulation is...

a)

The loudness or softness of sound

b)

The way a note is played - the way you "pronounce" a note

c)

The length of the beat

d)

keeping in time with the beat

16.

How many beats does this note get in 4/4 time?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

1.5

d)

3

17.

What is this symbol called?

a)

Accent

b)

Fermata

c)

Crescendo

d)

Syncopation

18.

What does a fermata do?

a)

Nothing

b)

Tells you to play louder

c)

Tells you to get louder

d)

Tells you to look at the note

e)

Tells you to hold the note longer than its original value

19.

What is the diference between a TIE and a SLUR?

a)

A tie means play loudly and a slure means to play softly

b)

A tie makes the note shorter and a slur make a note longer

c)

Nothing really - a tie means hold the notes together/don't separate them and a slur means to play the notes together without separating them by tonguing or bowing

d)

A tie means to hook the notes together and a slur means to separate them

20.

What is Mrs. Marks' MAIN instrument?

a)

Clarinet

b)

Trumpet

c)

Flute

d)

Kazoo

21.

BONUS QUESTION: When is our Spring Concert 2022?

a)

April 15th

b)

May 17th

c)

June 3rd

d)

July 4th