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HIGH FREQUENCY VOCABULARY WORDS AND DEFINITIONS
2nd Grade
WORD
Applause
Audience
Ballet
Bells
Bravo/Brava
Call and response
Coda
Cymbals
Double bar line
Duet
Dynamics
Eighth note
Form
Forte (f)
Guitar
Half note
Harmony
Harp
Keyboard
Mallet
Melody
Musical alphabet
Notate
Ostinato
Patriotic song
Percussion
Piano (p)
Pitch
Posture
Quarter note, quarter
rest
Repeat sign
Rhythm
Skip
Solfege
Sol-Mi-Do
Staff
Steady beat
Step
Strong beat
Tempo
Tie
Trombone
Whole note
Xylophone (wood)
DEFINITION
Clapping to show appreciation
Group of people who listen and watch live performance
Story told through music and dance
A metallic toned instrument
A shout to express admiration, “great job”
A style of choral singing; musical form in which leader’s solo (call) is followed by an answer
(response) sung by a group
A special ending
Round metal instruments in the percussion family
Two vertical lines on the staff to mark the end of the music
Two people performing together
The loudness and softness of sound
; in 4/4 time, receives ½ beat
The order of same and different ideas in music; the way a musical composition is put together
Loud
A six-stringed instrument that is either plucked or strummed
; in 4/4 time, receives two beats
Two or more pitches sounding at the same time
Many-stringed instrument that is plucked in the string family
Musical instrument with keys laid out in a row
A special stick with a ball on one end to play a percussion instrument
A line of pitches that move up, down, or stay the same
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
To write down the music
A short repeated pattern; may be vocal or instrumental
Music that helps show love for country
Category (group) of instruments played by striking, shaking, or scraping
Soft
Another name for a musical note
Position of the body
, ; in 4/4 time, receives one beat
A musical symbol meaning to sing or play a section of the music more than once
A pattern of long and short sounds and silences
Melodic movement that passes over a note (not a step or repeat)
Syllables used to name the sounds/pitches of the scale
Melodic pattern of sound skipping downward
Set of five horizontal lines and four spaces used in writing music
The regular pulse found in most music
Melodic movement that goes from one sound to the next in the scale
The most important beat in a rhythmic pattern
The speed of music
Musical marking meaning to lengthen a sound
Instrument with a slide in the brass family
; in 4/4 time, receives four beats
Instrument with wooden bars in the percussion family
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05/03/2017