Music Terms

4. When two singers perform together, each having their own unique part.
6. An organized group of singers.
7. Line Vertical lines that separate the staff into measures.
8. 5 horizontal lines and 4 spaces
11. Staff The treble and bass clefs together, connected by a line or bracket. Usually indicates the piano part.
14. Signature Numbers that sit at the front of the music, next to the clef, that determines how many beats are in each measure and which note gets the beat.
15. Notes that are sung that compliment the melody.
16. A section of music that you have to sing or play again.
19. To gradually increase volume
21. Necessary to improve your singing.
24. A way to organize parts in music that occurs at the same time.
25. The highness or lowness of a vocal tone.
26. When one person sings alone.
27. To sing or play a piece of music loudly
29. Space between two bar lines

1. Music symbols that represent levels of volume and expression.
2. To gradually DECREASE volume
3. Where all parts sing the same note.
5. Marks A mark that is in music that shows where a musician should take a breath.
9. Hold the note for as long as the director tells you to.
10. One Higher voices
12. How a note should be sung.
13. To sing or play a piece of music softly
17. Two Lower voices
18. A tie adds the notes together, to be performed as one note.
20. Breath Mark Usually a dotted line over a group of notes/phrase where you cannot breathe.
22. How fast the beat is in a piece of music
23. Determined by note and rest values
28. Determined by Time Signature
30. Short and Separated