Music Vocabulary Terms

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Across
  1. 3. (means "tail" in Italian) a concluding section appended to the end of a work
  2. 10. a slow, solemn tempo
  3. 11. gradually slowing down the tempo
  4. 13. the rendering of a single melodic line by several performers simultaneously
  5. 14. the lowest-sounding non-pitched percussion instrument
  6. 17. usually refers to a type of violin playing in which a string is plucked by the fingers
  7. 18. sudden stress on a note or chord
  8. 22. a rhythmic grouping, set off in written music by a vertical barline
  9. 23. music from Europe and the Americas
  10. 24. short, detached notes
  11. 25. the unique, characteristic sound of a musical instrument or voice
  12. 26. another term for tone color
  13. 28. a fast tempo
  14. 29. the original instrumental prototype of the piano (late Baroque/early Classic eras)
  15. 30. a moderate tempo
Down
  1. 1. (dynamic; p) a quiet dynamic marking
  2. 2. a smooth, connected manner of performing a melody
  3. 3. a percussion instrument comprised of several tube-shaped bells struck by a leather hammer
  4. 4. a mechanical (or electric) device that precisely measures tempo
  5. 5. a pitched percussion instrument consisting of flat wooden bars on a metal frame that are struck by hard mallets
  6. 6. a short rhythmic/melodic idea that is repeated exactly over and over throughout a musical section or work
  7. 7. the musical element of relative musical loudness or quietness
  8. 8. (Italian "to the head") a written indication telling a performer to go back to the start of a piece
  9. 9. a family of woodwind instruments with a single reed and brass body; commonly used in jazz and marching band/concert band music
  10. 12. a basic metrical pattern having two beats per measure
  11. 15. a melody that is not smooth in contour (has many leaps)
  12. 16. a powerful metallic instrument with a mouthpiece and tubing that must be blown into by the player, such as trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba, baritone, bugel
  13. 19. a flexible strip of cane (or metal) that vibrates in the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
  14. 20. small fluctuations in pitch used to make a sound more expressive
  15. 21. a musical pulse
  16. 27. a rapid slide between two distant pitches