Across
- 6. a wind instrument, such as a trumpet or trombone, typically made of brass.
- 8. means gradually getting louder.
- 9. three or more notes played together.
- 10. the way a note is articulated, from legato to staccato.
- 15. how fast or slow a piece of music is performed.
- 17. instruments that depend on electric power for producing and synthesizing sounds, and for amplification.
- 19. sound produced by the vibration of a string.
- 20. procedure in which a melodic area is presented in one voice and then restated in another.
- 25. means gradually getting softer.
- 26. signal or pulse that marks the passing of time in more or less regular segments of equal duration.
- 27. the relative length of a note, from long to short.
- 28. a series of chords.
- 29. grouped sets of the basic beat.
- 31. meaning short and detached, with distinct precision.
- 32. interval of 8 whole steps or 12 half steps.
- 34. a style of setting a text to music so that there is more than one note per syllable.
- 36. two or more different pitches strung together.
- 38. a beat counted as "two" or "four" in 4/4 rhythm.
- 41. pitches of different frequencies.
- 43. meaning moderate speed--not fast, not slow.
- 44. sustained harmonic frequencies.
- 47. organizing a piece of music around a pitch.
- 48. a series of pitches.
- 49. meaning very slow and expressive.
- 50. meaning soft.
Down
- 1. sound produced by vibrating air.
- 2. music that is unstable and unpredictable.
- 3. sound produced by the vibration of a tightly stretched membrane.
- 4. the occurrence of a strong accent where one does not usually occur, this accent replacing the normally expected one.
- 5. a note's amplitude, from loud to soft.
- 7. collection of pitches that go up or down.
- 11. music that is stable and predictable.
- 12. a syncopated jazz or funk rhythm of the sort sampled in hip hop music.
- 13. an instrumental genre for a soloist (or sometimes more than one soloist) and a larger ensemble.
- 14. instruments that are played by striking them.
- 16. meaning to play as fast as possible.
- 18. final resting place of the music
- 21. a person who directs an orchestra or chorus, communicating to the performers by motions of a baton or the hands their interpretation of the music.
- 22. a series of three or more transpositions in a regular ascending or regular descending pattern.
- 23. multiple voices playing the same rhythm.
- 24. instruments that require the movement of a string to create vibrations that create sound.
- 30. a broken chord
- 33. the unique quality of the sound of an instrument or voice determined by the overtones present in that instrument.
- 35. sound produced from the body of the instrument vibrating, where it can be either struck, plucked, friction, or blown.
- 37. grouping of beats, most often in two or threes, in which the first beat of the group has a greater stress placed on it than on the subsequent beats.
- 39. type of variation in which an entire melodic-rhythm pattern is moved to a higher or lower pitch level.
- 40. multiple voices playing different rhythms.
- 42. a single steady musical sound or the written symbol representing that sound.
- 45. organizes movement in time, length of pitches.
- 46. meaning loud.