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Unit 1 Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Quarter note | Receives 1 beat of sound |
| Quarter rest | receives on beat of silence |
| Half note | receives two beats of sound |
| Half rest | receives two beats of silence |
| Whole note | receives four beats of sound |
| Whole rest | receives four beats of silence |
| Eighth note | receives ½ a beat of sound |
| Eighth rest | receives ½ a beat of silence |
| Sixteenth note | receives ¼ a beat of sound |
| Sixteenth rest | receives ¼ a beat of silence |
| Staff | five lines and four spaces where music is written |
| Measure | the space between the barlines |
| Bar line | a symbol that separates the notes into measures |
| Time signature | a symbol that indicates how many beats are in each measure |
| Key signature | indicates where the tonic is located |
| Double bar line | indicates the end of a song or a section of a song |
| Treble clef | indicates notes higher than middle C |
| Bass clef | indicates notes lower than middle C |
| Step | moving from one note to the next without skipping any notes |
| Skip | moving from one note to the next while skipping only one note |
| Leap | moving from one note to the next while skipping more than one note |
| Tonic | the home note |
| Line note | a note that has a line going through the notehead |
| Space note | a note that is between two lines on the staff |
| Grand staff | a staff that is created when two staves are joined together |