Across
- 1. Very slow, solemn
- 3. the major or minor scale around which a piece of music revolves
- 6. how cords are constructed and how they follow each other
- 8. Sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously
- 10. the ordered durations of sounds and silences
- 11. part of a melody
- 16. gradually softer
- 17. Moderate tempo
- 18. basic pace of the music
- 19. tone combination that is unstable and tense
- 21. In notation, a set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned
- 22. relative highness or lowness of a sound
- 25. Very slow, broad
- 26. Loud or strong
- 27. keyboard instrument that produces sound when pressed on the keys.
- 28. Lively Tempo
- 29. an ordered sequence of notes.
Down
- 2. Fast
- 4. combination of three or more tones sounded at once
- 5. Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
- 7. Organization of beats into regular groups
- 9. intervals of silence in pieces of music, marked by symbols indicating the length of the silence.
- 12. moderately fast
- 13. very fast tempo
- 14. Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
- 15. slow
- 17. using only one line of music, without any other instruments or singers
- 20. "distance" in pitch between any two tones
- 23. a way for composers to indicate that a passage of music should gradually increase in loudness over time
- 24. Term describing music in which one main melody is accompanied by chords