Across
- 3. A type of ornament which involves playing a different note very quickly before the actual note (grace note)
- 5. A type of texture where there are more than one tunes being performed at a time (Another word for polyphonic)
- 6. The element which refers to how many beats there are in a bar, and what type of beat
- 8. The Italian word for quick
- 9. The element which refers to shapes and patterns in the tune, and intervals between notes
- 10. A type of texture where there is a round
- 11. The type of tonality which describes solemn or dramatic music (The opposite of major)
- 12. The Italian word for quiet (the opposite of forte - loud)
- 14. The Italian word which means 'gradually get faster' (The opposite of rallentando)
- 17. The element which means how loud or quiet
- 18. The Italian word for very fast
- 20. The notes of a melody generally get higher and higher (The opposite of
- 23. Off-beat rhythm
- 24. A type of texture where everyone is performing exactly the same thing
- 25. Five-note scale
- 27. A type of texture where instruments or voices are copying each other
- 28. The notes of a melody move in semitones (black-white-black-white)
- 29. A type of cadence which sounds like an 'Amen'
- 30. A repeating pattern in a song (another word for ostinato)
- 31. A type of texture where there is simply one note being performed at a time. (one tune)
- 33. The element which refers to chords and cadences
- 36. The element which refers to the order sections are played in. (form)
- 38. The element which refers to whether the music is major or minor
- 39. The Italian word for slow
- 40. The element which refers to how many layers of sound there are, and how they interact.
- 41. A melodic pattern repeats but starting on a higher or lower note
- 42. The notes of a melody mainly move by step (The opposite of angular)
- 44. A type of ensemble, large group of singers
Down
- 1. The element which means patterns created by combinations of long notes and short notes
- 2. The Italian word which means the tempo keeps changing
- 3. Melody and ___________________ (a type of texture)
- 4. The first degree of the scale
- 7. The instruments and voices, and the different performance techniques
- 13. A type of ensemble, large group of instrumentalists
- 15. The notes get gradually shorter. (The opposite of augmentation)
- 16. The fifth degree of the scale
- 18. Tierce de _________________. When the last chord of a minor phrase is minor
- 19. The Italian word which means 'get gradually louder' (The opposite of diminuendo)
- 20. The Italian word for 'walking pace'
- 21. A type of texture where the instruments or voices play different notes but in the same rhythm.
- 22. Where there is a feeling of two beats per bar, in a 3/4 or 6/8 time signature
- 26. A type of texture where there is call and response between the instruments and voices
- 32. A type of cadence which sounds unfinished (the opposite of a perfect cadence)
- 34. A type of interval, eight notes apart
- 35. A melody contains scales
- 37. Three notes in the time of two
- 38. A melody contains broken chords
- 43. A type of ornament which involves playing two notes, one after the other repeatedly, very quickly