High Frequency Vocabulary and Definitions

HIGH FREQUENCY VOCABULARY AND DEFINITIONS 5 TH GRADE

WORD DEFINITION Accent Musical marking meaning to stress the sound Arpeggio A broken chord pattern Chord progression A kind of harmony using a pattern of chords Conga Latin American drum Crescendo (cresc.) Gradually getting louder Decrescendo (decresc.) Gradually getting softer Djembe African drum Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do’ A major scale Dotted half note .; in 4/4 time, receives three beats Doumbek Middle Eastern drum Dynamics The loudness and softness of music Eighth note, eighth rest , ; in 4/4, receives ½ beat Euphonium Large brass instrument, similar to a tuba Forte (f) Loud Fortissimo (ff) Very loud Grand Staff Notation of treble and bass clefs together Half note, half rest ; in 4/4 time, receives two beats Interval The distance between two notes Koto Japanese string instrument Leading tone The seventh note of a major scale; Ti leading to Do Ledger line Lines added to the staff Major scale Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do’ Mezzo forte (mf) Medium loud Mezzo piano (mp) Medium soft Musical theatre Theatrical performance combining music and drama Octave Interval of eight notes, either up or down Ostinato A short repeated rhythmic or melodic pattern Pentatonic Music based on a five tone scale Pianissimo (pp) Very soft Piano (p) Soft Piccolo The highest pitched instrument in the woodwind family Quarter note, quarter rest , ; in 4/4 time, receives one beat Saxophone Single-reed instrument in the woodwind family Score The notation of the entire musical work Sitar Indian string instrument Sixteenth note, sixteenth rest , ; ini 4/4 time, receives ¼ beat Slur Musical marking meaning to connect the notes smoothly Syncopation Rhythm pattern in which important tones are placed on weak beats or weak parts of beats Synthesizer An electronic keyboard instrument Time Signature The top number tells how many beats per measure and the bottom number tells what note gets one beat Timpani Large tunable drums in the percussion family; kettledrums

04/06/2018