Music Words
Terms
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copy deck
- an original song.
- composition
- not accompained by music.
- A Capella
- area between two bar lines.
- measure
- divides music into equal parts
- bar line
- tells you what key the piece of music is in.
- key signature
- tells you how many beats per measure and what kind of note gets one beat,
- time signature
- before a note raises the pitch of that note.
- sharp
- before the lowers the pitch of the note.
- flat
- where the weak beat is accented.
- syncopation
- to stress or emphasize.
- accent
- three or more pitches played at the same time.
- chord
- a fixed pattern of pitches arranged in succession from low to high or high to low.
- scale
- grouping of musical sounds by means of duration and stress.
- rhythm
- represents silence.
- rest
- go back to begginning and paly or sing music again.
- repeat sign
- used for notes in the highest pitch. ALSO CALLED G CLEF.
- TREBLE CLEF
- used for notes in the lower pitch. ALSO CALLED THE F CLEF.
- BASS CLEF
- made up of 5 lines and 4 spaces between.
- staff
- highness or lowness of sound.
- pitch
- when the bass clef and treble clef are combined using a bar line and a brace.
- GRAND STAFF
- short lines which are added to extended the range of the staff when the notes are too low or too high to be written on the staff.
- ledger lines
- an adaption of a composition
- arrangement
- specalized work that a composer is paid to write.
- commossions
- wriiten at the end of a piece of music. made up of one thin line and one thick line.
- double bar line
- to compose,recite,play or sing on the spur of the moment.
- improvise