Musical Elements

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Across
  1. 4. The instruments and voices, and the different performance techniques
  2. 5. The element which means patterns created by combinations of long notes and short notes
  3. 6. A melody contains scales
  4. 8. A type of ensemble, large group of instrumentalists
  5. 9. The type of tonality which describes solemn or dramatic music (The opposite of major)
  6. 10. The Italian word for slow
  7. 11. A type of texture where there is a round
  8. 13. A type of texture where the instruments or voices play different notes but in the same rhythm.
  9. 16. A type of texture where there is call and response between the instruments and voices
  10. 17. A melodic pattern repeats but starting on a higher or lower note
  11. 18. A melody contains broken chords
  12. 20. The notes of a melody move in semitones (black-white-black-white)
  13. 21. The element which refers to how many beats there are in a bar, and what type of beat
  14. 22. The element which refers to chords and cadences
  15. 23. A type of ornament which involves playing two notes, one after the other repeatedly, very quickly
  16. 24. Where there is a feeling of two beats per bar, in a 3/4 or 6/8 time signature
  17. 26. The Italian word for 'walking pace'
  18. 29. Melody and ___________________ (a type of texture)
  19. 32. Off-beat rhythm
  20. 33. The element which refers to shapes and patterns in the tune, and intervals between notes
  21. 34. The element which means how fast or slow
  22. 36. The Italian word which means the tempo keeps changing
  23. 37. Five-note scale
  24. 38. The fifth degree of the scale
  25. 43. The element which refers to the order sections are played in. (form)
  26. 44. The notes get gradually shorter. (The opposite of augmentation)
  27. 47. A type of texture where everyone is performing exactly the same thing
  28. 48. The Italian word for quiet (the opposite of forte - loud)
  29. 49. A type of cadence which sounds like an 'Amen'
  30. 50. A repeating pattern in a song (another word for ostinato)
Down
  1. 1. A type of ensemble, large group of singers
  2. 2. A type of cadence which sounds unfinished (the opposite of a perfect cadence)
  3. 3. The Italian word which means 'get gradually louder' (The opposite of diminuendo)
  4. 7. The Italian word for very fast
  5. 10. The Italian word which means 'gradually get faster' (The opposite of rallentando)
  6. 12. A type of interval, eight notes apart
  7. 14. A type of ornament, simply the first part of a trill
  8. 15. Tierce de _________________. When the last chord of a minor phrase is minor
  9. 16. A type of ornament which involves playing a different note very quickly before the actual note (grace note)
  10. 19. A type of texture where instruments or voices are copying each other
  11. 21. A type of texture where there is simply one note being performed at a time. (one tune)
  12. 25. The fourth degree of the scale
  13. 27. The Italian word for quick
  14. 28. Three notes in the time of two
  15. 30. A type of texture where there are more than one tunes being performed at a time (Another word for polyphonic)
  16. 31. A type of cadence which finished on a minor chord
  17. 35. The notes of a melody generally get higher and higher (The opposite of
  18. 39. The element which refers to how many layers of sound there are, and how they interact.
  19. 40. A type of ornament which involves starting on a note, going to the one above, coming back to the actual note, going to the one below, then back to the original note again
  20. 41. The notes of a melody mainly move by step (The opposite of angular)
  21. 42. The element which means how loud or quiet
  22. 45. The element which refers to whether the music is major or minor
  23. 46. The first degree of the scale