Music Vocabulary
Across
- 6. piano factory we are visiting
- 7. Anthony and Brae often embody this quieter dynamic in class
- 8. speeding up
- 11. another famous piano manufacturer mentioned in our recent article
- 14. grouping of four musicians
- 16. also known as a broken chord and frequently played by Charlie
- 17. this is the highest pitched instrument of the string family
- 18. represents higher voices and is also the favorite clef of our class as expertly written by Miles and Cabell
- 20. to change keys
- 21. shorter name of a member of the percussion family made famous as the intro of Mariah Carey's Christmas hit and Zach's in class performance
- 23. distance between the 1st and 8th notes of a scale (When singing the "O Canada" Reid would begin on c4 and Dr. M would start on c5)
- 24. essentially the volume shifts in music
- 26. gradually getting louder
- 28. distance between two pitches
- 30. the trumpet and tuba are members of this instrument family
- 32. head musician responsible for the main interpretation of a musical work (Higor and EJ played this role with sharing their synopses of our recent readings)
- 34. louder dynamic (Jack and Jake often create this dynamic when talking loudly)
Down
- 1. this is a member of the woodwind family which is often erroneously listed as a brass instrument
- 2. to hold longer (extending the duration of the note or rest)
- 3. played smoothly
- 4. performed by a single musician
- 5. collaboration of three musicians
- 9. hypothetical instrument introduced to us by Logan as an important part of the keyboard's historical development and contribution
- 10. lowers the pitch
- 12. synonym of measure
- 13. a person with exceptional talent
- 15. speed of work
- 19. defines the number many beats in a measure and provides the duration of each beat
- 22. five horizontal lines where music is written
- 24. performed by two musicians
- 25. creating music on the spot without any prewritten material (common in Jazz)
- 27. raises the pitch
- 29. slow tempo
- 31. we use this term to describe a choir or part of a common musical form in pop music
- 33. base note of the key and chordal inversion