Music Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 1. A series of pitch arranged in order from low to high or high to low.
- 3. Organization of beats into regular groups.
- 4. Gradually softer
- 5. Degrees of loudness or softness in music.
- 9. Very fast tempo
- 11. Slow and broad (Broadly) tempo
- 12. sharps or flat signs immediately following the clef sign at the beginning of a piece of music, indicating the key in which the music is to be played.
- 14. Relative highness or lowness.
- 16. Widely used keyboard instrument of great range and versatility, whose sound is produced by felt-covered hammers striking against strings.
- 17. A main melody with other parts providing harmony
- 19. Tone Combination that is stable and restful.
- 21. In notation, a set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned.
- 23. Basic pace of the music.
- 26. Music that uses notes that are not typically included in the key of a piece.
- 27. Tone Combination that is unstable and tense.
- 28. Becoming slower
- 29. Resting place at the end of a phrase in a melody, or a progression giving a sense of conclusion, often from the dominant chord to the tonic chord.
- 31. Part of a melody
- 32. Loud (f)
- 33. Moderately fast
- 34. How chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
- 35. A very quick tempo
- 36. In notation of rhythm, a symbol to indicate the duration of silence in the music.
- 37. Slow
- 38. “Distance” in pitch between any two tones.
Down
- 2. To get louder
- 6. Shift from one key to another within the same piece.
- 7. Neither fast or slow/Moderately paced tempo
- 8. sounding of individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously.
- 10. The ordered durations on sounds and silences.
- 13. Very soft (pp)
- 15. A single melody line without harmony or counterpoints.
- 18. Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.
- 20. Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes placed on each line and space.
- 22. Combination of three or more tones sounded at once.
- 24. Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone.
- 25. Central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in relationship to which all other toned in the composition are heard.
- 30. Quick and Lively/Cheerful tempo
- 31. A combination of multiple melodies at the same time.
- 32. Very loud (ff)