Elements Of Music

Question 1

What is does pitch mean?

Answer 1

how high or low a note is.

Question 2

What does tempo mean?

Answer 2

What is the speed or pace of a piece of music.

Question 3

What does accelerando mean?

Answer 3

Getting faster.

Question 4

What does rallentando mean?

Answer 4

Getting slower.

Question 5

What is it called when there is a fast tempo?

Answer 5

Allegro

Question 6

What is it called when there is a slow tempo?

Answer 6

Adagio

Question 7

What is it called when there is a moderate tempo?

Answer 7

Andante

Question 8

What does dynamics mean?

Answer 8

The volume of the music -how loud or quiet the music is

Question 9

What is it called when the music gets louder?

Answer 9

Crescendo

Question 10

What is it called when the music gets quieter?

Answer 10

Diminuendo.

Question 11

Loud music is called ..?

Answer 11

Forte

Question 12

Soft music is called …?

Answer 12

Piano

Question 13

Moderately loud music is called ..?

Answer 13

Mezzo forte

Question 14

Moderately soft music is called ..?

Answer 14

Mezzo piano

Question 15

What does duration mean?

Answer 15

How long or short a note sounds

Question 16

What does texture mean?

Answer 16

How simple or complicated (complex) it is

Question 17

What are two examples for a texture that is simple?

Answer 17

(homophonic or monophonic)

Question 18

What is one example if the texture is complex?

Answer 18

x (polyphonic)

Question 19

What does timbre mean ?

Answer 19

it describes the particular sound quality of an instrument/voice.

Question 20

What does tonality mean?

Answer 20

It is the character of the piece - major=happy

minor=sad