Music Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. speeding up
  2. 6. represents higher voices and is also the favorite clef of our class as expertly written by Miles and Cabell
  3. 7. performed by a single musician
  4. 9. performed by two musicians
  5. 12. synonym of measure
  6. 16. defines the number many beats in a measure and provides the duration of each beat
  7. 17. this is a member of the woodwind family which is often erroneously listed as a brass instrument
  8. 18. this is the highest pitched instrument of the string family
  9. 19. slow tempo
  10. 22. grouping of four musicians
  11. 24. played smoothly
  12. 25. to hold longer (extending the duration of the note or rest)
  13. 27. we use this term to describe a choir or part of a common musical form in pop music
  14. 28. five horizontal lines where music is written
  15. 30. lowers the pitch
  16. 31. speed of work
  17. 33. creating music on the spot without any prewritten material (common in Jazz)
  18. 34. base note of the key and chordal inversion
Down
  1. 1. raises the pitch
  2. 2. hypothetical instrument introduced to us by Logan as an important part of the keyboard's historical development and contribution
  3. 3. shorter name of a member of the percussion family made famous as the intro of Mariah Carey's Christmas hit and Zach's in class performance
  4. 5. gradually getting louder
  5. 7. another famous piano manufacturer mentioned in our recent article
  6. 8. the trumpet and tuba are members of this instrument family
  7. 10. piano factory we are visiting
  8. 11. distance between the 1st and 8th notes of a scale (When singing the "O Canada" Reid would begin on c4 and Dr. M would start on c5)
  9. 13. Anthony and Brae often embody this quieter dynamic in class
  10. 14. collaboration of three musicians
  11. 15. louder dynamic (Jack and Jake often create this dynamic when talking loudly)
  12. 20. distance between two pitches
  13. 21. essentially the volume shifts in music
  14. 23. a person with exceptional talent
  15. 26. to change keys
  16. 29. also known as a broken chord and frequently played by Charlie
  17. 32. head musician responsible for the main interpretation of a musical work (Higor and EJ played this role with sharing their synopses of our recent readings)