Music Vocabulary
Across
- 3. made up of five horizontal lines and four spaces
- 5. very quiet
- 6. labored or SLOW
- 7. the highness or lowness of tone determined by the number of vibrations
- 10. loud
- 13. a small group of performers
- 14. moderate
- 15. steady "walking" tempo
- 18. three or more tones played simultaneously
- 20. moderately loud
- 21. very fast
- 26. the speed of the beat
- 27. fast
- 28. the sounding together of two or more tones or pitches
- 30. a person who writes the words for the music
- 31. a person who writes music
Down
- 1. very loud
- 2. the element of time in music governed by duration, tempo, and meter
- 4. a group or solo without instrumental accompaniment
- 8. a visual representation of musical sound
- 9. gradual increase in volume
- 11. quiet
- 12. the basic unit of time in music
- 14. moderately quiet
- 16. gradual decrease in volume
- 17. group of beats separated by bar lines
- 19. how long a sound or silence lasts
- 22. a musical background for a melody
- 23. vertical lines that separate measures
- 24. slow
- 25. the relative loudness or softness of music
- 29. beats organized into patterns