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Elements of Music Worksheet
August 9th, 2011
Name: __________________________
Fine Arts
1. List 7 elements of music
2. What can perceive to be as pleasant or unpleasant?
3. Duration is:
4. What begins with the vibration of an object, such as a table that is pounded or a string that is plucked?
5. What are vibrations transmitted to our ears by? It is usually air that is used.
6. Pitch is:
7. The pitch of a sound is determined by the frequency of its _________________.
8. The faster the vibrations, the ________ the pitch; the ________ the vibrations, the lower the pitch
9. In music, a sound that has a definite pitch is called a _____________
10. The "distance" in pitch between any two tones is called an __________________
11. The distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce is called its
pitch range, or simply its ______________
12. A pianos range is over ___ ___________
13. Degrees of loudness or softness in music are called ___________________
14. As a result of the vibrations, our eardrums start vibrating too, and impulses, or signals, are transmitted to
the brain. There the impulses are ______________, _______________ & __________________.
15. Loudness is related to the _________________________________________________
16. Crescendo is:
17. List 2 types of Musical Form:
18. Decrescendo is:
19. When notating music, composers have traditionally used ______________words, and their
abbreviations, to indicate dynamics.
Elements of Music Worksheet
August 9th, 2011
Name: __________________________
Fine Arts
20. We can tell a trumpet from a flute even when each of them is playing the same tone at the same dynamic
level. The quality that distinguishes them our third property of musical sound is called ________
_______ or _________
21. Rhythm has several interrelated aspects: ______________, _________, _______________,
______________ & ________________.
22. A regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time is ____________
23. What are the 4 main properties of musical sound?
24. The particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music is called _______________
25. Meter is:
26. A measure is:
27. The first, or stressed, beat of the measure is known as the ______________
28. A note is emphasized most obviously by being played louder than the notes around it, that is, by
receiving a dynamic _____________
29. When an accented note comes where we normally would not expect one, the effect is known as
_______________
30. _________________ is the speed of the beat, the basic pace of the music.
31. A ____________ ____________ is usually given at the beginning of a piece.
32. Largo is
33. Adagio is
34. Presto is
35. Moderato is
36. An unaccented pulse preceding the downbeat is called an ______________
37. Allegro is
38. Vivace is
Elements of Music Worksheet
August 9th, 2011
Name: __________________________
Fine Arts
39. A gradual quickening of tempo may be indicated by writing ____________ (becoming faster), and a
gradual slowing down of tempo by _____________(becoming slower).
40. A _______________ is an apparatus which produces ticking sounds or flashes of light at any desired
musical speed. The metronome setting indicates the exact number of beats per minute.
41. After hearing a piece of music, we usually remember its ___________ best
42. Melody is:
43. A _______________ is a combination of three or more tones sounded at once.
44. ______________ in music is the organization of musical elements in time
45. ________________, _________________ & _______________ are essential techniques in short tunes
as well as in compositions lasting much longer
46. Noise-like sounds (squeaking brakes or clashing cymbals) have an ____________ pitch because they are
produced by irregular vibrations
47. Many melodies are made up of shorter parts called _________________
48. A melody moves by small intervals called _________ or by larger ones called ____________