Music 1011
Terms
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- Bass clef
- The other name for the F clef
- Score
- The written depiction of all the parts of a musical ensemble with the parts stacked vertically and rhythmically aligned.
- Octava
- Indicating notes to be played an octave (eigh stepts) higher
- ppp
- Very Very Soft
- Accent
- placed above a note to indicate stress or emphasis.
- Diminuendo
- Gradually becoming softer
- Rest
- A symbol used to denote silence.
- Slur
- A curved line placed above or below two or more notes of different pitch to indicate that they are to be performed in legato style.
- p
- Piano Soft
- Note
- The symbol which, when placed on a staff with a particular clef sign, indicates pitch.
- Beam
- A thick horizontal line connecting several flaged notes
- Crescendo
- Gradually becoming louder
- mf
- Mezzo Forte Medium Loud
- fff
- Very Very Loud
- Ledger lines
- Short lines placed above and below the staff for pitches beyond the range of the staff.
- Legato
- connected notes played in an un broken line
- Staccato
- Detached sounds, indicated by a dot over or under a note. The opposite of legato.
- mp
- Mezzo Piano Medium Soft
- Staff
- The most frequently used staff has five horizontal lines, with four spaces, upon which the notes and other musical symbols are placed.
- Bar line
- The vertical line placed on the staff to divide the music into measures
- pp
- Very Soft
- ff
- Very Loud
- Clef
- A symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to indicate the pitch of the notes on the staff.
- f
- Forte Loud
- System
- A number of staves braced together
- Tie
- A curved line over or below two or more notes of the same pitch. The first pitch is sung or played and held for the duration of the notes affected by the tie.
- Decrescendo
- Gradually becoming softer