Music Vocabulary

1. play the note with emphasis symbolized by a greater than symbol above or below the note
3. a symbol that receives four beats of silence and looks like a hole
4. a symbol that is similar to a comma telling you to pause and breathe
7. play soft symbolized by p
9. a symbol that shows notes written in the upper voices of instruments and looks similar to a fancy G
11. a symbol that receives two beats of silence and looks like a top hat
14. five lines and four spaces where the music notes are placed to read for each instrument
15. play medium loud symbolized by mf
17. play medium soft symbolized by mp
18. Shows the number of beats in each measure
19. play the note separated and emphasized symbolized by a rooftop symbol
21. a term that means to gradually speed up and abbreviated to accel.
23. play loud symbolized by f
25. a symbol that tells you to hold the note longer than its original value and looks like a birds eye
27. a note that receives one half beat of sound and looks like a filled in circle with a stem and tail and are sometimes connected in groups of 2
31. Shows the number of flats or sharps in a piece of music
32. play very loud and symbolized by ff
33. a word that means to increase volume often symbolized by the abbreviation cresc. or an extended less than symbol
34. a symbol that looks like a circle and cross to advance to a new section of the music

2. a symbol that keeps the pitch at its regular pitch and looks like a box with two tails
5. play the note long and connected symbolized by a symbol
6. the lines that separate the music staff
8. a word that means to decrease volume often symbolized by the abbreviation decresc. or an extended greater than symbol
10. a word that is lengthened to ritardando describing slowing down the tempo
12. a symbol that lowers a pitch a half step and looks like a small b
13. a note that receives four full beats of sound and looks like a donut
14. a symbol that raises a pitch a half step and looks like a hashtag
16. a symbol that receives half a beat of rest and looks similar to the number 7
20. a bracketed section that tells you to play a set of measures the first time you see them
22. play the note short and separated symbolized by a dot above or below the note
24. a symbol that looks like two backslashes that tells you to pause
26. play very soft and symbolized by pp
28. a note that receives two full beats of sound and looks like a donut with a stem attached
29. a symbol that shows notes written in the lower voice and looks like a backwards C with two dots
30. a symbol that tells you to play a section of music again symbolized by a double bar line and two dots