Across
- 4. the gathering of beats into regular units
- 6. very slow, solemn
- 7. a set of five horizontal lines; the higher the note on the staff, the higher the pitch
- 8. Abbreviation f; loud
- 12. instance of gradually decelerating tempo within a piece of music
- 14. movement or composition in a moderately fast tempo
- 18. the speed or pace of a given piece
Down
- 1. movement in a quick tempo
- 2. notation at the beginning of music, indicates the pitch of notes
- 3. a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides into equal units of time
- 4. linear succession of musical tones as an single entity
- 5. Abbreviation pp: very soft
- 9. refers to the ordered durations of sounds and silences
- 10. Abbreviation pf, soft
- 11. the distance between any two tones
- 13. movement or composition in a slow tempo
- 14. directive in music to return to bowing
- 15. very slow and broad
- 16. the absence of a sound
- 17. Relative highness and lowness we hear in a sound