Music Crossword

4. gradual decrease in volume of a musical passage
6. intervals are those that cause tension and desire to be resolved to consonant intervals.
8. how quietly or loudly a piece of music should be played.
11. position of a single sound in the complete range of sound.
13. he basic unit of time, the pulse, of the mensural level.
15. a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines.
18. intervals are usually described as pleasant and agreeable.
19. a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, homophony.

1. the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.
2. musical sounds in agreeable succession or arrangement.
3. loud or strong
5. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force
7. the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
9. five parallel horizontal lines that, with a clef, indicate the pitch of musical notes.
10. the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
12. a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that flesh out the harmony.
14. the sound level when music is played softly.
16. the inclusive distance between one tone and another, whether sounded successively (melodic interval) or simultaneously (harmonic interval).
17. the speed of the underlying beat