Beat Pulse of music Rhythm Long & short sounds of music Phrase Musical sentence Barline Separates measures Measure A unit of time Music The movement of sound through time Quarter Note One sound on a beat in 4/4 "ta" Eighth Note Two sounds on a beat in 4/4 "ti-ti" Time Signature Top number tells how many beats in a measure Whole Note Four beats long "ta-a-a-a" Half Note Two beats long "ta-a" Dotted Half Note Three beats long "ta-a-a" Pitch High and low sounds Treble Clef "High pitch", G clef Bass Clef "Low pitch" F clef Solfa or Solfege "Singers Language" Dynamics Symbols that show how to render music: loud versus soft Staff The 5 lines and 4 spaces upon which music is written Scale A particular set of tones or notes Pentatonic Scale 5 tone scale: do, re, mi, so, fa; "magical scale" major scale do to do Basic Music Terms-1
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