Music Appreciation Terms

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Across
  1. 3. as fast of a tempo as possible
  2. 5. Shift from one key to another within the same piece
  3. 7. organization of beats into regular groups
  4. 8. How chords are constructed and how they follow each other
  5. 14. fast
  6. 17. the ordered durations of sounds and silence
  7. 18. Sharp or flat signs immediately following the clef sign at the beginning of a piece of music, indicating the key in which the music is to be played.
  8. 19. very slow, solemn
  9. 23. gradually louder
  10. 26. Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone
  11. 27. Combination of three or more tones sounded at once
  12. 28. moderate tempo
  13. 29. loud
  14. 30. moderately soft
Down
  1. 1. very slow, broad
  2. 2. Tone combination that is unstable and tense
  3. 4. very soft
  4. 6. relative highness or lowness of a sound
  5. 9. (Broken Chord) Sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously
  6. 10. Series of pitches arranged in order from low to high or high to low
  7. 11. very loud
  8. 12. degrees of loudness or softness in music
  9. 13. (1) Resting place at the end of a phrase in a melody (2) Progression giving a sense of conclusion, often from the dominant chord to the tonic chord
  10. 15. very fast tempo
  11. 16. becoming slower
  12. 20. slow
  13. 21. basic piece of the music
  14. 22. (Tonality) Central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in a relationship to which all other tones in the composition are heard
  15. 24. gradually softer
  16. 25. becoming faster