music vocabulary

1. a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch
3. al fine: from the head to the end
5. fast paced
6. indicate that notes should be played by plucking the strings of a violin, viola, cello, etc
7. slowing of tempo
9. a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm
14. play as a single note
15. lower in pitch
16. how fast a musician plays
17. a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity
19. slow tempo
21. beats in a of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level
22. played short
24. the basic unit of time, the pulse, of the mensural level
27. the positioning of a musician
28. how loud a musician plays
29. signature: a set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff
30. immediately

2. played with bow
3. play high to low
4. the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument
8. a note is natural when it is neither flat nor sharp
10. different sounds blended well together
11. a fundamental musical parameter that determines how a single note or other discrete event is sounded
12. to play again
13. play smoothly and connected
14. a musical tone is a steady periodic sound
18. 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
20. time: a 4/4 time signature that's been rhythmically “cut” to manipulate rhythm and/or tempo
22. play without separation
23. gradually increase tempo
25. higher in pitch
26. signature: a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are contained in each measure, and which note value is equivalent to a beat