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Grade 1 Music Terms
Grade 1 Musical Terms
Term | Definition |
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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 |