MUSIC TERMS

3. relative loudness or softness
6. without music / instrumental accompaniement
7. highest natural adult male voice
8. displaced major scales
9. moving from key to key
10. how a sound is placed in time
11. highest singing voice of a woman or young boy
15. the unit of musical rhythm
16. combination of 3 or more pitches sounded simultaneously
17. short line; notation for extending the range above or below the staff (two words)
18. rest musical rest equals in duration to 4 beats in common time
19. style of male singing whereby partial use of the vocal cords the voice is able to reach the pitch of a female
21. low female singing voice; range between soprano and tenor
22. symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in the particular staff

1. low sound of tone; male singing voice of the lowest range
2. musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to 2 beats in common time (two words)
4. metric units between two bars on the staff
5. unchanging in pitch
6. way a sound is started and ended
12. symbol indicating that the 4th line from the bottom of the staff represents the pitch of F below middle C (two words)
13. emphasis on a note, word, or phrase
14. a key interval or mode
17. word to indicate composition is to be played slowly
20. system of 5 horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written