Music Appreciation Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Gradually Softer.
  2. 7. Gradually Louder.
  3. 9. Relative highness or lowness of a sound.
  4. 11. How chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
  5. 15. Sound that has a definite pitch, or frequency.
  6. 16. Very slow, broad.
  7. 18. A dynamic marking meaning to play very softly.
  8. 19. Term describing music in which one main melody is accompanied by chords.
  9. 21. A symbol indicating silence for a specific duration in music.
  10. 22. A set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned.
  11. 24. A direction for string players to use the bow (after plucking/pizzicato).
  12. 28. Very slow, solemn.
  13. 29. Fast and Lively.
  14. 32. Basic pace of the music.
  15. 34. Single melodic line without accompaniment.
  16. 36. Accenting a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a weak beat.
  17. 37. The distance between two tones.
  18. 38. Scale including all twelve tones of the octave; each tone is a half step away from the next one.
Down
  1. 1. Loud.
  2. 3. A harmonic or melodic ending that creates a sense of closure in music.
  3. 4. Combination of three or more tones sounded at once.
  4. 5. Sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously.
  5. 6. Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of the notes placed on each line and space.
  6. 8. Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone.
  7. 10. The tonal center of a piece, based on a specific scale, that organizes pitches.
  8. 12. A dynamic marking meaning moderately loud.
  9. 13. Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole.
  10. 14. Very fast.
  11. 17. Becoming Faster.
  12. 18. As Fast As Possible.
  13. 20. Becoming Slower.
  14. 23. The unique tone color or quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another.
  15. 25. The levels of loudness and softness in music.
  16. 26. Tone combination that is unstable and tense.
  17. 27. Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time.
  18. 30. Slow.
  19. 31. A musical “sentence” or unit of melody that feels complete.
  20. 33. The technique of plucking the string.
  21. 34. The pattern of beats organized into measures, shown by the time signature.
  22. 35. Series of pitches arranged in order from low to high or high to low.