Band Vocabulary 1
Across
- 3. position of a note in a scale, highness or lowness of a sound
- 6. the length of a note
- 7. the quality of the sound of an instrument
- 9. the way notes are started and stopped
- 13. the main melody of a song
- 14. medium tempo
- 15. raises the pitch of a note one half step
- 17. changing the rhythm or notes of a theme to create variety
- 18. connects notes of different pitch, tongue only the first note
- 19. fast tempo
- 20. bar the end of a section of music
- 21. lowers the pitch of a note one half step
- 22. speed of music
Down
- 1. the basic unit of time in music
- 2. a pattern in time
- 4. a composition with parts for two players
- 5. the area between two bar lines
- 6. loudness or softness of music
- 7. curved line joining two notes of the same pitch to make one longer note
- 8. two parts on same music, some players play the top notes while others play the bottom notes
- 10. accuracy of pitch
- 11. sign play the music again
- 12. cancels a flat or sharp until the next bar line
- 16. playing the same music beginning at different times
- 18. the five lines with four spaces in between used for writing music
- 19. moderately slow tempo