Music Concepts Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• atonal : no feeling of key
• grace note : a type of ornament played as a quick, crushed note before the main note of a melody
• glissando : sliding from one note to another
• trill : moving quickly and repeatedly between adjacent notes
• coda : a passage at the end of a piece which finishes it off
• ground bass : a theme in the bass which is repeated many times while the upper parts are varied
• strophic : each verse of a vocal piece has the same music
• bodhran : a celtic wooden drum held in one hand and played with a wooden beater
• pizzicato : italian term for plucking a string instrument
• pibroch : the classical form of the highland bagpipe in theme and variation form
• contrapuntal : a texture which consists of two or more independent melodic lines. it is similar to polyphonic
• anacrusis : the note(s) before the first strong beat of a phrase
• jig : a fast scottish dance in compound time with 2 beats in a bar