Across
- 3. the pitch distance between 2 notes
- 5. stepwise, staying within the primary notes of the key and scale
- 7. a series of adjacent notes, usually related in a key
- 8. the highness or lowness of a note, the way musicians say "frequency"
- 11. the person who leads a musical group through gesture
- 12. a designated ending part of a piece
- 17. the chords, guitar strums, the left hand piano part
- 19. having a "sad" sound
- 20. harmonically tense or unstable, possibly bad sounding
- 22. a symbol that raises the pitch of a note, or the sounding of a note higher than it should be (the other way to be out of tune)
- 23. pronounced "tamber", the color or qualities of the sound
- 26. a symbol that nullifies a flat or sharp, a "white key" note on the piano, like G or D
- 27. the speed of the music
- 28. the high frequency parts of the sound. Also, the high clef
Down
- 1. louds and softs, and changes from one to the other
- 2. the scale on which a piece is based
- 4. the moment of release of harmonic tension
- 6. the tune, the part you hum or sing
- 9. using the "in between notes", not sticking to the scale
- 10. having a "happy" sound
- 13. the division of sound and silence in time relative to the meter
- 14. the low frequency parts of the sound. Also, the low clef
- 15. a 4-section work written for the symphony orchestra
- 16. pleasing to the ear, harmonically stable
- 18. the division of the pulse, usually into 2's, 3's, or 4's
- 21. cappella "as in the chapel", choral without accompaniment, like a church choir
- 24. one division of the beat. In a "4" meter, one of the groups of 4 beats
- 25. a symbol that lowers the pitch of a note, or the sounding of a note lower than it should be (one way to be out of tune)