BHS Instrumental Music Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Slow down gradually, broaden.
  2. 7. Tells how many beats are in each measure and what note gets the beat.
  3. 12. Join together to form one longer note.
  4. 15. Emphasis placed on a downbeat which is tied over from the previous beat.
  5. 16. Slow down gradually.
  6. 17. Light and detached.
  7. 18. How fast or slow the music goes.
  8. 19. Much.
  9. 20. A rhythmic effect which places emphasis on a weak or unacceted part of the measure. An unexpected sound.
  10. 22. Flats, sharps, and natural not in the key signature.
  11. 24. To get softer gradually.
  12. 26. To place empasis on a given note.
  13. 28. Playing exactly the same pitches an rhythms at the same time.
  14. 30. The distance between two pitches.
  15. 34. In a singing style.
  16. 36. Hold until musically satisfied.
  17. 37. Freely; not in a steady tempo.
  18. 38. Speedup gradually.
Down
  1. 1. How the notes are played; a pattern of slurred and tongued notes.
  2. 2. Accented and detatched.
  3. 3. Tells us what scale to use.
  4. 4. Weighted, heavy; usually slower than the previous tempo.
  5. 5. Very fast.
  6. 6. More motion.
  7. 8. Pitches that sound the same, are fingered the same, but are written differently.
  8. 9. To get louder gradually.
  9. 10. Smooth and connected.
  10. 11. An accompaniment part in the music.
  11. 13. The order of the sections within a piece of music. How the music is put together.
  12. 14. Little by little.
  13. 21. To place emphasis on the more important notes.
  14. 23. Play the given note full value.
  15. 25. Stop and pause; "Railroad tracks".
  16. 27. Motion by half steps.
  17. 29. Music played in a manner so that all parts can be heard clearly.
  18. 31. The volume; how loud or soft we play.
  19. 32. Move between pitches without tonguing.
  20. 33. The main part in the music.
  21. 35. Quickly.