Sight-reading Basics

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Across
  1. 3. playing straight through a piece without stopping for correction or adjustments
  2. 5. Smallest distance between two notes
  3. 7. a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency
  4. 8. the interval between the keynote of a major scale and the unison, 4th, 5th, or octave of that scale
  5. 10. the distance between any two pitches
  6. 11. a sequence of notes placed in ascending or descending order by step.
  7. 12. "Do" is always the starting pitch of whatever scale is indicated by the key signature
Down
  1. 1. sharps or flats at the beginning of each staff to indicate which pitches are to be raised or lowered from their natural state during the piece
  2. 2. Syllables used to represent pitch classes in Western music traditions.
  3. 4. interval consisting of two half steps
  4. 6. Two notes that sound the same but are written differently
  5. 9. Do is always C
  6. 11. The individual notes of a scale, typically identified by a number.