Music Appreciation Vocab

2. the ordered duration of sounds and silences
6. a series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
8. moderate tempo
13. becoming faster
15. Range distance between the highest and lowest tones that a given voice or instrument can produce
16. Signature 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
17. part of the total range of an instrument or voice
20. gradually louder
21. instruments of definite or indefinite pitch whose sound is produced by striking by hand, or with a stick or hammer or by shaking or rubbings
24. lively tempo
25. very slow; seldom
27. another term for measure,other used in Jazz
28. moderately soft(mp)

1. scale including all twelve tones of the octave
3. very high-pitched whistle-like tones, produced in bowed string instruments by lightly touching the string at certain points while bowing
4. single melodic line without accompaniment
5. accenting a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a weak beat
6. rhythmic group set off by bar lines, containing a fixed number of beats
7. regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
9. gradually softer
10. organization of beats into regular groups
11. performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time
12. series of pitches arranged in order from low to high or high to low
14. degrees of loudness or softness in music
18. sound that has a definite pitch, or frequency
19. interval between two tones in which the higher note has twice the frequency of the lower tone
21. relative highness or lowness of a sound
22. becoming slower
23. vibrations that are transmitted, usually through air, to the eardrum, which sends impulses to the brain
26. how chords are constructed and how they follow each other