Musical Terms

3. Three notes played in the same amount of time as one or two beats
5. One who directs a group of performers
8. In sheet music, a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff
11. A single line of music played or sung (A musical sentence)
12. Three note chords consisting of a root, third, and fifth
13. A curve over notes to indicate that a phrase is to be played legato
14. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony

1. A set of four musicians who perform a composition written for four parts
2. A dance written in triple time, where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure
4. Rapid alternation between notes that are a half tone or whole tone apart
6. Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume
7. The element of music pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats
9. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone
10. An instruction in sheet music to play softly abbreviated by a “p”
13. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending
15. The principal note of a triad