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notes on a scale
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| quarter note | receives one 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bass clef | indicates notes lower than middle |
| 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 |
| Time signature | - a symbol that indicates how many beats are in each |