musical vocab
Across
- 2. Drum A convex steel drum played with the hands, producing melodic tones.
- 3. a Ukrainian hammered dulcimer
- 6. The unique quality or color of a musical sound.
- 7. a thumb piano from zimbawe
- 10. Multiple independent melody lines played simultaneously.
- 12. Expressive and rhythmic freedom by slightly speeding up or slowing down
- 13. A symbol indicating that a note should be held longer than its value.
- 15. The first note of a scale, serving as the home base.
- 16. A smooth, connected style of playing notes.
- 18. a loud double Reed woodwind from the middle east
- 20. A gradual increase in loudness.
- 23. A tempo marking indicating a fast, cheerful pace.
- 25. a Chinese free- Reed wind instrument with a gourd wind chamber
Down
- 1. a plucked string instrument from India with a long neck
- 2. Overtones that are integer multiples of a fundamental tone.
- 4. The process of changing from one key to another within a piece.
- 5. to the notes within a standard major or minor scale
- 8. A gradual decrease in loudness.
- 9. A West African harp-lute with 21 strings.
- 11. A sequence of chords that brings a phrase to a close
- 14. a bowed string instrument from iran
- 17. a large double headed drum from the balkans
- 19. a long necked waisted lute from Iran
- 21. Emphasis on normally unaccented beats or offbeats.
- 22. A two-stringed Chinese bowed instrument.
- 24. a Chinese plucked lute with four strings