Music Terms Crossword

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