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Terms to review music theory terms and concepts.
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What term means everyone plays?
Unison
Tutti
Divisi
2
The top number of a time signature tells you ____
Nothing
How many seconds the measure is
Beats per measure
What note gets one beat
3
A dotted note tells you to play the note for _________ the length of the original note
The original note + half of it's beat
Twice as long
Three times as long
Half
4
What kind of lines extend the staff up or down?
Measure Lines
Straight Lines
Ledger Lines
Bar Lines
5
Tenuto tells you to play the note
Forcefully
Full length
With emphasis
Detached
6
Crescendo means to:
Speed up
Slow down
Get louder
Get softer
7
What term means one section plays?
Tutti
Soli
Solo
Unison
8
A ___ tells you to hold the note until the director goes on.
Accidental
Staccato
Birds Eye
Fermata
9
Marcato tells you to play the note
Forcefully
With emphasis
Full length
Detached
10
Decrescendo means to
Get louder
Get softer
Speed up
Slow down
11
What is the loudest dynamic listed?
pp
mf
fff
mp
12
What term is used to describe how loud or soft to play the music?
Fermata
Forte
Piano
Dynamics
13
The ___ clef is used to write music for higher sounding instruments.
Treble
Bass
14
What is the acronym for the spaces of the bass clef?
EGBDF
FACE
GBDFA
ACEG
15
What is the softest dynamic out of the following choices?
mf
ppp
mp
fff
16
What is the acronym for the lines of the bass clef?
EGBDF
ACEG
GBDFA
FACE
17
An altered note that is not in the original key is called an ___
Natural
Accidental
Sharp
Flat
18
A whole note gets how many beats?
3
2
1
4
19
What dynamic means forte or loud?
mf
mp
p
f
20
Staccato tells you to play the note
Detached
Full length
Forcefully
With emphasis
21
Accents tell you to play the note
Forcefully
Detached
Full length
With emphasis
22
Two or more notes on different lines or spaces joined by a curved line are a:
Slur
Tie
23
Smaller sections of the staff are called___
Staff
Measures
Bar lines
24
What means one person plays?
Tutti
Soli
Solo
Unison
25
An apostrophe above the staff that tells you to breath is called a
Breath Mark
Floating sign
Comma
26
Two or more notes on the same line or space joined by a curved line is called a:
Slur
Tie
27
Music is written on a ____
Line
Staff
28
The bottom number of a time signature tells you
How many beats per measure
Nothing
Seconds per measure
What note gets one beat
29
What is the acronym for the lines of the treble clef?
ACEG
EGBDF
GBDFA
FACE
30
How many beats does a quarter note get?
2
4
3
1
31
What is the acronym to remember the spaces of the treble clef?
ACE
ACEG
EGBDF
FACE
32
What is a musical thought or sentence?
Beat
Sentence
Phrase
Tempo
33
What is the speed of a song?
Phrase
Time
Tempo
Breath
34
What dynamic means medium soft?
f
p
mf
mp
35
Unison means:
Everyone plays the same notes
Everyone plays different notes
Some play top and some play bottom
36
How many beats does a dotted half note receive?
2.5
2
3.5
3