Across
- 2. Manner in which the harmonic (vertical) and melodic (horizontal) elements are combined to create layers of sound
- 4. Series of chords sounding in succession; certain progressions are typical in particular styles/genres of music
- 5. Audible sounds and/or nonsense syllables used by vocalists to convey musical ideas or intent
- 7. Tone color or tone quality that distinguishes one sound source, instrument, or voice from another
- 12. Form of music that is subject to improvisation or structured randomness
- 14. Rate or speed of the beat in a musical work or performance
- 15. Musical texture in which two or more melodies sound simultaneously in either an imitative or non-imitative manner
- 17. Chordal structure of a music composition in which the simultaneous sounding of pitches produces chords and their successive use produces chord progressions
- 18. Music based on a mode other than major or minor
- 19. Grouping of beats and divisions of beats in music, grouping of beats and divisions of beats in music, often in sets of twos (duple meter) or threes (triple meter)
- 21. Relating to a seven-tone scale consisting of five whole steps and two half steps
- 23. Music in which two or more tonalities (keys) sound simultaneously
- 26. Representation of sound and its treatment using lines, drawings, pictures
- 27. Musical segment with a clear beginning and ending, comparable to a simple sentence or clause in written text
- 28. System for visually representing musical sound in time using a 5-line staff
Down
- 1. Qualities such as dynamics, tempo, articulation which -- when combined with other elements of music -- give a composition its musical identity
- 3. Musical texture consisting of an accompanied vocal line that is rhythmically free melodic line in a declamatory style, from which the recitative developed
- 6. Five-tone scale often identified with the pattern of the black keys of a keyboard, although other five-tone arrangements are possible
- 8. Performance of a musical phrase that uses expressive qualities such as dynamics, tempo, articulation, and timbre to convey a thought, mood, or feeling
- 9. To hear and comprehend musical sounds in one’s head (inner hearing), rather than from an external source
- 10. Underlying steady pulse present in most music
- 11. Musical texture in which all parts move in the same rhythm but use different pitches, as in hymns
- 13. Element of music describing the overall organization of a piece of music, such as AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variations, and strophic form
- 16. Grouping, generally brief, of long and short sounds and silences
- 19. Musical texture consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line
- 20. Rate in which harmony the rate in which harmony changes from one chord to the next
- 22. Shape of a melody created by the way its pitches repeat and move up and down in steps and skips
- 24. Music in which no tonic or key center is apparent
- 25. Tonic or key tone around which a piece of music is centered