Ford's piano
piano vocab for final exam
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- diminuendo or decrescendo
- gradually softer
- key signature
- sharps or flats that follow the clef signs
- brace
- joins the bass staff and treble staff together
- legato
- smoothly connected
- adagio
- slowly
- articulation
- the manner in which notes are connected or separated
- natural sign
- cancels a sharp or flat
- dotted half note
- note receiving 3 counts
- staff
- made up of 5 lines and 4 spaces
- pianissimo
- very soft
- bass clef sign
- locates the F below the middle of the keyboard
- melodic intervals
- the intervals between notes that make a melody
- treble clef sign
- locates the G above the middle of the keyboard
- half step
- distance from any key to the very next key above/below it
- tied notes
- notes on the same line or space joined by a curved line
- grand staff
- bass staff, treble staff, joined together by a brace
- non legato
- disconnected but not staccato
- crescendo
- gradually louder
- octave
- the distance from one key on the keyboard to the next key with the same letter name
- tempo
- rate of speed
- piano
- dynamic sign meaning to play softly
- sharp sign
- means to play the next key to the right
- tenuto mark
- means to hold the note for its full value
- harmonic intervals
- the intervals between notes that make harmony
- common time
- 4 beats to each measure, quarter note gets 1 beat
- dotted quarter note
- equal to a quarter note plus an eighth note
- tempo marks
- words indicating the tempo used in playing music
- phrase
- a musical thought or sentence formed by slurs
- mezzo forte
- moderately loud
- flat sign
- means to play the next key to the left
- staccato
- indicated by a dot above/below the note, makes the note very short!
- slur
- curved line over/under notes meaning to play legato
- fortissimo
- very loud
- intervals
- distances between tones; 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, etc.
- allegro
- quickly, happily
- dynamic signs
- tell how loudly or softly to play
- forte
- loud
- leger line
- used between the two staves for middle C or to extend the range of the grand staff
- fermata sign
- means to hold the note under the sign longer than its value
- moderato
- moderately
- andante
- moving along or "walking"
- chromatic scale
- made up entirely of half steps
- transposition
- playing music in a different key from the original
- whole step
- equal to two half steps