Music Terms

3. 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.
6. A way to organize parts in music that occurs at the same time.
7. 5 horizontal lines and 4 spaces
12. To gradually increase volume
15. Space between two bar lines
17. When one person sings alone.
18. Higher voices
19. A mark that is in music that shows where a musician should take a breath.
22. How a note should be sung.
24. Lower voices
26. To gradually DECREASE volume
27. How fast the beat is in a piece of music

1. Short and Separated
2. Determined by note and rest values
4. The treble and bass clefs together, connected by a line or bracket. Usually indicates the piano part.
5. Music symbols that represent levels of volume and expression.
8. Hold the note for as long as the director tells you to.
9. Where all parts sing the same note.
10. Determined by Time Signature
11. Line Vertical lines that separate the staff into measures.
12. An organized group of singers.
13. When two singers perform together, each having their own unique part.
14. A section of music that you have to sing or play again.
16. Necessary to improve your singing.
20. Notes that are sung that compliment the melody.
21. To sing or play a piece of music loudly
23. A tie adds the notes together, to be performed as one note.
24. To sing or play a piece of music softly
25. The highness or lowness of a vocal tone.