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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |