Music Terms

2. The Highest female voice
3. Short, detached notes
6. (#) a musical symbol that raises the pitch one half-step
7. The unit of musical rhythm
9. The rate of speed of a musical work
12. The male voice which has a range between baritone and alto
13. An ordered succession of adjacent pitches, arranged in a sequence of whole steps and half steps, for example the major or minor scales. A specific scale is defined by its characteristic interval pattern and by its most prominent pitch, known as its tonic.
14. In sheet music, a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff.
16. The simultaneous combination of pitches, especially when blended into chords that are pleasing to the ear.
17. note A written note with a dot to the right of it (the dot adds half the rhythmic duration to the note's original value)

1. The sung/spoken text of an opera
3. An "off-the-beat" accent
4. The lowest male voice
5. A measurement of time in music that contains a specific number of pulses defined by a time signature, and that is contained within bar lines.
7. a male singing voice of medium compass between bass and tenor
8. A low-ranged female voice; the second lowest instrumental range
10. An identifiable succession of musical sounds.
11. Meaning growing, as in a swelling of sound, or becoming louder.
15. Loud or strong
18. Color The unique, characteristic sound of a musical instrument or voice