Music Terms and Symbols

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Across
  1. 2. _____ Signature notates sharps or flats at the beginning of music that tell you which notes are always sharp or flat.
  2. 3. A set of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which musical notation is written.
  3. 4. _____ Signature is a set of numbers that tell you how many beats are in a measure and what kind of note gets one beat.
  4. 5. A curved line connecting two or more notes, indicating they should be played or sung smoothly.
  5. 7. ____ clef is a symbol at the beginning of a musical staff that indicates lower-pitched notes, commonly used for instruments like the double bass or tuba
  6. 9. Vertical lines in music that divide it into parts, like sentences in a book.
  7. 11. How fast or slow the music should be played
  8. 13. Symbols indicating periods of silence in music
  9. 15. ____ note or rest that gets 4 beats
  10. 17. ____ note or rest that gets half a beat
Down
  1. 1. A section of music separated by vertical lines, with a specific number of beats.
  2. 4. ____ clef is a symbol at the beginning of a musical staff that indicates higher-pitched notes, typically used for melodies played by instruments like the violin or flute.
  3. 6. A musical symbol that lowers the pitch of a note by one half step.
  4. 8. A musical symbol that raises the pitch of a note by one half step.
  5. 10. A symbol used to cancel the effect of a previous sharp or flat, returning a note to its natural pitch.
  6. 12. ____ note or rest that gets 1 beats
  7. 14. A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch, indicating they should be played as one longer note
  8. 16. ____ note or rest that gets 2 beats