Name: ___________________________________

 

VOCABULARY UNIT 1

·   Match the words on the left with a definition or description on the right. Write the number of the definition or description on the line in front of the words.

 

___ Monophony                                  1.       The musical distance between two pitches    

 

___ Duple meter                                  2.       The way melody moves when two pitches in the melody are next to each other on the tone ladder

                    ___ Polyphony                          3.       Beats grouped together in sets of three

                    ___ Steady beat                         4.       The texture of a melody alone ("one sound")

                    ___ Texture                                         5.       A melody in the foreground with accompaniment in the background

___ Form                                             6.       The general low or high pitch range of a sound

 

___ Dynamics                                      7.       Beats grouped in sets of two

___ Interval                                         8.       "Having three parts"

___ Major scale                         9.       "Many voices sounding together"

___ Range                                           10.     The way melody moves when pitches are omitted between two pitches of the melody

___ Stepwise                                      11.     The regular repetition of the basic unit of time

___ Register                                         12.     Represented on a tone ladder by do re mi fa so la ti do

___ Skipwise                                       13.     The distance between the lowest and highest pitches in a song

___ Triple meter                                  14.     The basic unit of time

___ Homophony                                  15.     Loud

___ Ternary                                         16.     The way a musical composition is organized

___ Beat                                              17.     The softness or loudness of a sound

___ Forte                                   18.     The way layers of sound are combined

 

 

· Match the words on the left with a definition or description on the right. Write the number of the definition or description on the line in front of the words.

 

_______ Notation                    19. A diagram showing the pitch syllables or numbers of a scale or part of a scale

_______ Tone color                20.     Notes written on a musical staff

_______ Bar line           21. Two or more voices singing the same melody

_______ Tone ladder              22.     Families of musical instruments in an orchestra

 

 _______ Unison                     23. A set of beats between two bar lines

 

_______ Measure                   24. A tine dividing a staff into measures

 

_______ Staff                          25. The unique sound of a voice or instrument

______ Brass, woodwinds,

Strings, percussion       26.     The five lines and four spaces upon which notes are written

 

 

· Draw the symbols next to its name so you get the right symbol next to the right name.

 

27. Whole rest

 

28. Eight note

 

29. Half rest

 

30. Forte

 

31. Quarter note

 

32. Repeat signs

 

33. Quarter rest

 

34. Piano

 

35. Accent

 

36. Half note