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Question | Answer |
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beat: | steady pulse of all music. |
Quarter note: | one beat of sound. |
quarter rest: | one beat of silence. |
Bar-line: | vertical line that groups notes and rest together. |
Measure: | the space between the bar-lines. |
Meter: | way of organizing rhythm. |
Time signature: | set of numbers at the beginning of a piece of music. |
Staff: | five lines and four spaces on which notes are written. |
clef: | symbol at begging of a staff that indicates which lines and spaces represent which notes. |
treble clef: | clef that generally indicates notes that sound higher than middle c. |
bass clef: | a clef that generally indicates notes that sound lower than middle c. |
grand staff: | a staff that is created when 2 staves are joined together. |
scale: | group of pitches which are sung or played in succession and are based on a particular home tone(tonic) |
key: | determined by its home tone or tonic. |
rhythm: | combination of long and short note and rest. |
half note: | note that represents two beats of sound. |
half rest: | rest that represents two beats of silence. |