Music Vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A repeated pattern of beats or sounds in music. (6)
  2. 6. A gradual increase in loudness (9)
  3. 9. How loud something is, or how much space it fills (6)
  4. 13. A gradually increasing tempo of music (11)

Down

  1. 1. An expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence (6)
  2. 2. A musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition (8)
  3. 3. The speed at which a composition is to be played (5)
  4. 4. A dramatic or musical entertainment (11)
  5. 7. Death of a person (5)
  6. 8. The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to (11)
  7. 10. The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers (6)
  8. 11. A style of expressing yourself in writing (5)
  9. 12. A perceptual structure (7)