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