Across
- 1. music accompanying a film
- 5. basic pace of the music
- 9. becoming slower
- 11. female voice of low range
- 12. a symbol in music placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact notes placed on each line and space
- 15. emotional state such as joy, grief, and agitation representing baroque music through specific musical languages
- 18. creation of music at the same time as it is performed
- 21. series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
- 22. very slow, solemn
- 23. how chords are constructed and how they follow each other
- 24. an Italian word for bow, signifying a musician to play with their bow
- 25. smooth, connected manner of performing a melody'
- 27. becoming faster
- 28. regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of times
Down
- 2. shift from one key to another within the same piece
- 3. tone combination that is unstable and tense
- 4. term describing music in which one main melody is accompanied by chords
- 6. a very fast tempo
- 7. first, or stressed beat of measure
- 8. another term for measure, often used in jazz
- 10. a particular tone color or tone quality in music that distinguishes a sound or combination of sounds
- 12. combination of three or more tones sounded at once
- 13. scale including all twelve tones of the octave; each tone is a half step away from the next one
- 14. (broken chord) sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously
- 15. slow, in tempo
- 16. accenting a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a weak beat. heavily used in jazz music
- 17. text of an opera
- 19. a lively tempo in music
- 20. degrees of loudness and softness in music
- 26. "distance" in pitch between two notes