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Grade 1 Music Terms
Grade 1 Musical Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adagio | slowly |
| Andante | at an easy walking pace |
| Moderato | at a moderate speed |
| Allegro | lively and fast |
| Presto | very fast |
| Accelerando | gradually becoming faster |
| Rallentando | gradually becoming slower |
| Ritardando | gradually becoming faster |
| Ritenuto | immediately slower |
| A tempo | return to the former speed |
| Crescendo | gradually becoming louder |
| Decrescendo | gradually becoming softer |
| Diminuendo | gradually becoming softer |
| Forte | loud |
| Piano | soft |
| Legato | smooth, well connected |
| Staccato | short and detached |
| Bar line | divides music into equal sections according to time signature |
| Double bar line | Indicates the end of a piece |
| Tie | Joins the length of two notes |
| Slur | Play smoothly |
| semibreve | four beat note |
| crotchet | one beat note |
| quaver | half beat note |
| staff or stave | the file lines that music is written on |
| dotted minim | three beat note |
| dotted crotchet | one and a half beat note |
| semitone | the very next note on the piano, white or black |
| tone | two semitones |
| sharp | raises a note by a semitone |
| flat | lowers a note by a semitone |
| 2/4 | a simple duple time signature with two crotchets in a bar |
| 3/4 | simple triple time signature with three crotchets in a bar |
| 4/4 | a simple quadruple time signature with four crotchet beats in a bar |
| anacrusis | an incomplete bar at the beginning that is made up for at the end |
| C major | a key with no sharps or flats |
| F major | a key with one flat |
| G major | a key with one sharp |