Music Terms

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  1. 3. The ordered durations of sounds and silences
  2. 4. Piano Moderately soft
  3. 6. A directive to a performer to smoothly decrease the volume of the specific passage.
  4. 8. Music composed of many parts or voices, each with its own melody, thus creating a rich texture of sound.
  5. 9. part of a melody
  6. 10. The speed of the rhythm of a composition
  7. 12. A set of five, equidistant, horizontal lines joined together by a brace
  8. 13. Central note, scale, and chord within the piece.
  9. 15. symbol placed at the beginning of a staff to show the exact pitch of notes on each space and line
  10. 16. A rather fast tempo marking between allegro and moderato.
  11. 17. A slow tempo marking between largo and andante
  12. 18. phrase The subject of a fugue or canon; the first phrase of a musical period
  13. 20. Becoming faster.
  14. 23. Very slow, solemn.
  15. 25. Very soft.
  16. 29. Dynamic marking meaning quiet or softly
  17. 31. A directive to perform the indicated passage of a composition very quickly.
  18. 32. The sharp, flat, or natural signs placed at the beginning of a staff indicating the tonality of the composition.
  19. 34. the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play
  20. 35. Playing a string instrument by which the strings are plucked.
  21. 36. A symbol standing for a measured break in the sound with a defined duration.
  22. 37. Series of pitches arranged in order from low to high or high to low
  23. 38. The sounding of two or more notes (usually at least three) simultaneously
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  1. 1. Directive for a musician to play a stringed instrument with a bow as opposed to plucked or pizzicato
  2. 2. Gradually louder.
  3. 5. very loud
  4. 7. Tone combination that is stable and restful.
  5. 11. interval spanning seven diatonic degrees, eleven semitones.
  6. 12. Accenting a note at an unexpected time as between two beats or on a weak beat.
  7. 14. Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
  8. 19. How chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
  9. 21. Two or more notes sounded together which are discordant, and, in the prevailing harmonic system, require resolution to a consonance.
  10. 22. The specific quality of a sound that makes it a recognizable tone
  11. 24. A directive to perform the indicated passage of a composition with a gradual slowing of the tempo, or to gradually delay the tempo.
  12. 26. fast
  13. 27. The distance between two pitches
  14. 28. very slow, broad
  15. 30. A directive in music to perform the indicated passage loudly.
  16. 33. Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.