Year 11 Music Terms #1

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Across
  1. 1. non-electronic sound. It is mechanical, in that something needs to be vibrating in order to produce acoustic sound.
  2. 2. group of musicians
  3. 4. pattern of durations
  4. 5. loud
  5. 9. instruments that are blown into; a classification of instruments of world music
  6. 10. a 'leaning' note
  7. 12. female vocal type, lower than soprano
  8. 15. emphasis on beats two and four
  9. 16. gradually louder
  10. 17. form AB structure
  11. 19. lowest male voice
  12. 21. speed of music
  13. 22. beginning of a sound
  14. 25. sequence of pitches
  15. 26. underlying pulse
  16. 29. male mid-range voice
  17. 31. group of singers
  18. 32. occurs when a note is played or sung before a strong beat
  19. 33. same pitch
Down
  1. 1. pattern repeated with longer durations
  2. 3. string instruments
  3. 6. layers of sound
  4. 7. stresses or emphasis placed on particular notes to shape the musical phrase
  5. 8. oscillating pitch
  6. 11. a 'crushed' note; a note played at the same time as, and crushed into, the following note, where the value does not change
  7. 13. pitch organisation
  8. 14. the way notes are played
  9. 18. ending of a phrase
  10. 20. music Western classical traditions
  11. 23. scale 12 semitones
  12. 24. music with no tonal centre
  13. 27. form of question and answer between instruments
  14. 28. volume of sound
  15. 30. cappella sung without instrumental accompaniment, usually by a small group