Elements of Music

5. / detached manner of playing a melody
7. / The organization of beats into regular groups
8. / is a combination of 3 or more tones sounded at once.
9. Signatures / Shows the meter of a piece.
10. / the main chord of a piece.
13. / sets up tension that is resolved by the tonic chord.
17. / A group containing a fixed number of beats.
18. / the flow of music
19. / when an accented note comes where we normally would not expect one.
21. / A system of writing music so that specific pitches and rhythms can be communicated.
22. / a series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole.
23. / Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time

1. / when a note is emphasized and played louder than the notes around it.
2. / the speed of the beat -- is the basic pace of music.
3. / Moderately slow, a walking pace
4. / Moderately fast
6. / Broken Chord, when individual tones of a chord are sounded one after another.
11. / a stable chord (pleasing to the ear)
12. / provides clues for harmonizing, but it does not always dictate a specific series.
13. / unstable chord (builds tension)
14. / simplest, most basic chord is the triad (consists of 3 tones).
15. / refers to the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
16. / connected style of playing a melody
20. / Very Fast