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Third Grade
Music Vocabulary Words
Ti tika - A one beat rhythm pattern with three sounds (eight and two sixteenth notes)
Tika ti - A one beat rhythm pattern with three sounds (two sixteenths and an eighth note)
ti Ta ti - A two beat rhythm pattern with three sounds (eighth quarter eighth)
Half rest - Two beats of silence
Whole note - A note lasting four beats
Whole rest - Four beats of silence
Treble clef - The symbol that locates the G above middle C (higher pitches)
la, - A minor third below do and an octave below la
So, - An octave below so
Do' - An octave above do
Absolute pitch names - The letter names of pitches on a staff
Step - Pitch movement up or down to the next line or the next space
Skip - Pitch movement up or down from a line to the next line or a space to the next space
Leap - Pitch movement up or down that is more than a skip
Repeated notes - A series of pitches that stay on the same line or in the same space
Octave - And interval of an 8th
Flag - A single curved line which takes the place of a beam when eighth notes are separated
Fermata - A symbol (curved line with a dot below) that indicates to hold the note or rest longer
Subscript , - A comma placed lower and smaller next to a letter in Solfege to indicate that the note is below do
Superscript ' - An apostrophe placed higher and smaller next to a letter in Solfege to indicate that the note is higher than ti
Mezzo piano - Medium soft
Mezzo forte - Medium loud
1st and 2nd endings - Markings at the end of a section of music indicating two different endings for subsequent repetitions of the section
Verse - A portion of a song which is sung with different words on each repetition of the melody
Refrain - A portion of a song which is sung the same each time it is repeated
D.C. al Fine - A marking found in a song which indicates the performer is to go back to the beginning and continue until they see the word "Fine." Da Capo is Italian for "from the head," so literally - from the head to the finish
Introduction - Extra music at the beginning of a song
Coda - Extra music at the end of a song
AB form - A song including a verse and f=refrain, which begins on the verse and ends on the refrain each time it is repeated
Timbre - The particular sound of a voice or instrument
Round - A part song which starts off with a single voice or instrument in the melody, followed at intervals by the other voices, which enter individually and perform exactly the same melody, creating harmony from a simple melody (also called a canon)
Unison - Multiple performers singing or playing the same pitches at the same time
Harmony - More than on pitch played or sung at the same time
Texture - A word to describe the presence or absence of harmony in a piece of music, and how the voices interact with each other
Accompaniment - Music played on an instrument to support and add interest to the melody
Latino - Music from Mexico or Latin America, or in the style of this music
Spiritual - Music created by African-American slaves and spiritual in nature