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Ay's Musical Terms

Test yourself on basic musical terms that will help you read and write music.

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beat, the basic unit of time in music,
rhythm, the pattern of beats in a piece of music,
tempo, speed of the beat,
pitch, the highness or lowness of a sound,
dynamics, softness or loudness in music,
key signature, shows what pitches should be flat or sharp throughout the piece of music,
measure, set of notes and rests between two bar lines,
tie, a curved line that connects two notes of the same pitch and indicates that the sound should be held for the length of both notes,
sharp, a symbol indicating that a note is to be raised by a half step,
flat, symbol indicating that a tone is to be lowered by a half step,

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