Across
- 1. a succession of single tones with rhythm, forming a recognizable musical idea
- 2. three or more different tones played or sung together
- 4. refers to the way in which melody, rhythm, and harmony create a special "sound"
- 5. a set of five equally spaced horizontal lines on which musical notes are written
- 7. tells how many beats are in the measure (top number), and the kind of note that gets one beat (bottom number).
- 9. a repeating pulse that can be felt in some music
- 12. the speed of the beat
- 14. a musical idea that repeats throughout a piece or a section of a piece
- 15. the first, usually accented, beat of the measure
- 16. a single tone or chord louder than those around it
- 17. the distance from one tone to another
- 18. the vertical line on the staff used to mark off groupings of beats
Down
- 1. a grouping of beats set off by bar lines
- 3. degrees of loudness and softness
- 6. the sounding of two or more different notes at the same time
- 8. the special sound of an instrument or voice
- 10. the way beat of music are grouped of ten in sets of two or in sets of three
- 11. symbols that represent specific pitches and durations in music
- 13. the highness or lowness of a tone
- 19. the combination of sounds and silences in the same or differing lengths