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Music Fundamentals Vocab Quiz 2

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Rest
Symbol for silence
Quarter rest
Symbol for a quarter note's silence
Meter
A fixed pattern of beats, shown with a time signature
Metronome
A device for determining tempo
Accented beat
A stressed beat, often indicating the first beat of a measure
Unaccented beat
A weak or secondary beat, unstressed
Downbeat
The first beat of a bar, or of a piece
Keyboard plan
The pattern of black and white keys on a piano keyboard
Black keys
Groups of two and three, in an asymmetrical pattern
Half step
Smallest keyboard interval
Chromatic half-step
Same letter plus accidental
Diatonic half-step
Different letter
Whole step
Two half-steps
Chromatic scale
A 12-note scale, using all the pitches
Spelling
Using the alphabet structurally
Accidental
Symbol altering a white key note
Sharp
Raises the pitch 1/2 step; often used in an ascending scale
Flat
Lowers the pitch 1/2 step; often used in a descending scale
Double sharp (x)
Raises note 2 half-steps
Double flat (bb)
Lowers note 2 half-steps
Natural sign
Cancels out an accidental
Bar-line rule
"Accidentals are valid until the bar line"
Precautionary accidental
After a bar line, a reminder in parenthesis
Enharmonic spelling
Naming or notating the same pitch using different letters
DC al fine
"Da capo" "from the top to the end"
DS
"Dal Segno"; from the sign
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