Terms For Music Appreciation

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Across
  1. 1. Very slow, broad.
  2. 5. Moderately loud.
  3. 6. Sharp 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.
  4. 8. Shift from one key to another within the same piece.
  5. 10. The phrase ending with the less conclusive cadence
  6. 14. Gradually louder.
  7. 16. Resting place at the end of a phrase.
  8. 19. Distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce.
  9. 22. In notation, a set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned.
  10. 23. Relative highness or lowness of a sound.
  11. 24. Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.
  12. 25. Series of pitches arranged from low to high or high to low.
  13. 27. System of letters and symbols used to name notes, chords and key signatures in music.
  14. 29. Soft
  15. 31. Very loud
  16. 32. Becoming slower.
  17. 33. Combination of three or more tones sounded at once.
  18. 35. In notation of rhythm, a symbol to indicate the duration of silence in the music.
  19. 38. Tone combination that is stable and restful
  20. 39. Moderately soft.
  21. 40. Very slow, solemn.
  22. 42. Slow.
  23. 44. As fast as possible.
  24. 45. Very fast tempo.
  25. 46. Lively tempo.
  26. 47. The ordered duration of sounds and silences.
  27. 48. Accenting a note at an unexpected time, like between two beats or on a weak beat. A major characteristic of jazz.
  28. 50. Fast
  29. 51. Organization of beats into regular groups.
  30. 52. Moderately fast.
  31. 53. Tone combination that is unstable and tense.
Down
  1. 2. Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone.
  2. 3. Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole.
  3. 4. Music in which one main melody is accompanied by chords.
  4. 5. Moderate tempo.
  5. 7. Musical phrase that follows an antecedent phrase and has similar melodic or rhythmic structure.
  6. 9. How chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
  7. 11. Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes placed on each line and space.
  8. 12. With the bow
  9. 13. Use of chords containing notes not found in a prevailing major or minor scale but included in the chromatic scales (which have 12 notes. Often found in romantic music.
  10. 15. Basic pace of the music.
  11. 17. Becoming faster.
  12. 18. Emphasize a tone by playing it more loudly than the tones around it.
  13. 20. Sounding of the individual tones of a chord in a sequence rather than simultaneously.
  14. 21. Degrees of loudness or softness in music.
  15. 26. Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another.
  16. 27. Single melodic line without accompaniment.
  17. 28. Part of a melody.
  18. 30. Means of playing a string instrument by which the strings are plucked, usually with a finger of the right hand.
  19. 34. Very soft.
  20. 36. "Distance" in pitch between any two tones.
  21. 37. Moderately slow, a walking pace.
  22. 41. Loud.
  23. 43. Gradually softer.
  24. 45. Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time.
  25. 49. Central note, scale and chord within a piece, in a relationship to all other tones in the composition are heard.