Across
- 1. Very slow, broad.
- 5. Moderately loud.
- 6. Sharp or flat signs immediately following the clef sign at the beginning of a piece of music, indicating the key in which the music is to be played.
- 8. Shift from one key to another within the same piece.
- 10. The phrase ending with the less conclusive cadence
- 14. Gradually louder.
- 16. Resting place at the end of a phrase.
- 19. Distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce.
- 22. In notation, a set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned.
- 23. Relative highness or lowness of a sound.
- 24. Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.
- 25. Series of pitches arranged from low to high or high to low.
- 27. System of letters and symbols used to name notes, chords and key signatures in music.
- 29. Soft
- 31. Very loud
- 32. Becoming slower.
- 33. Combination of three or more tones sounded at once.
- 35. In notation of rhythm, a symbol to indicate the duration of silence in the music.
- 38. Tone combination that is stable and restful
- 39. Moderately soft.
- 40. Very slow, solemn.
- 42. Slow.
- 44. As fast as possible.
- 45. Very fast tempo.
- 46. Lively tempo.
- 47. The ordered duration of sounds and silences.
- 48. Accenting a note at an unexpected time, like between two beats or on a weak beat. A major characteristic of jazz.
- 50. Fast
- 51. Organization of beats into regular groups.
- 52. Moderately fast.
- 53. Tone combination that is unstable and tense.
Down
- 2. Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone.
- 3. Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole.
- 4. Music in which one main melody is accompanied by chords.
- 5. Moderate tempo.
- 7. Musical phrase that follows an antecedent phrase and has similar melodic or rhythmic structure.
- 9. How chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
- 11. Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes placed on each line and space.
- 12. With the bow
- 13. Use of chords containing notes not found in a prevailing major or minor scale but included in the chromatic scales (which have 12 notes. Often found in romantic music.
- 15. Basic pace of the music.
- 17. Becoming faster.
- 18. Emphasize a tone by playing it more loudly than the tones around it.
- 20. Sounding of the individual tones of a chord in a sequence rather than simultaneously.
- 21. Degrees of loudness or softness in music.
- 26. Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another.
- 27. Single melodic line without accompaniment.
- 28. Part of a melody.
- 30. Means of playing a string instrument by which the strings are plucked, usually with a finger of the right hand.
- 34. Very soft.
- 36. "Distance" in pitch between any two tones.
- 37. Moderately slow, a walking pace.
- 41. Loud.
- 43. Gradually softer.
- 45. Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time.
- 49. Central note, scale and chord within a piece, in a relationship to all other tones in the composition are heard.