Across
- 5. At least three notes played together
- 8. A sudden loud sound
- 10. A short musical idea
- 11. A time signature that means four crotchet beats in a bar
- 12. A musical sentence
- 13. Short, detached notes
- 14. How many layers of sound there are
- 15. How loud or quiet the music is
- 18. The pulse of the music
- 19. Three notes played together
- 20. The longest note-length in common use
- 22. Part of a pop song where both the words and music are the same each time
- 24. A piece of music which has two sections, called A and B
- 26. Lowers a note by one semitone
- 28. Happy-sounding musical scale
- 29. Quiet
- 30. The technical name for the tune
- 32. Getting louder
- 33. The distance in pitch between two notes
- 34. A texture where many different melodies are played at the same time
- 38. Smallest musical step, the distance between two notes which are right next to each other on the piano
- 39. A repeated musical pattern
- 41. The sound quality of an instrument
- 42. The lengths of notes and how they are put together in a pattern
- 43. An Italian word for getting quieter
Down
- 1. A musical texture with one melody line, with no harmony
- 2. An Italian word for getting faster
- 3. How long a note lasts
- 4. The main tune in a piece of music
- 6. The arrangement of different sections in a piece of music
- 7. Loud
- 9. Very, very loud
- 13. Raises a note by one semitone
- 16. Sad-sounding musical scale
- 17. The set of five lines on a piece of music
- 21. A short break from playing or singing
- 22. The closing section of a piece of music
- 23. An Italian word for getting slower
- 25. How fast or slow the music goes
- 27. No sound
- 31. Smooth and joined notes
- 35. Very, very quiet
- 36. Part of a pop song where the words are different each time, but the music is the same
- 37. High or low sounds
- 40. The very first section that you might hear in a pop song