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unit one vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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quarter note | receives one beat of sound |
quarter rest | receives one 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 half a note of sound |
eighth rest | receives half a note of silence |
sixteenth note | receives a fourth a beat of sound |
sixteenth rest | receives a fourth a beat of silence |
staff | five lines and four spaces where music is written |
measure | the space between the barlines |
barline | 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 on 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 |