Music Vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
c c d o
A gradual increase in loudness
2.
d s r e c n
3.
g r
A style of expressing yourself in writing
4.
v o m
How loud something is, or how much space it fills
5.
t m
The speed at which a composition is to be played
6.
r s e
An expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
7.
e l e d o
A gradually increasing tempo of music
8.
h m n t
9.
r e
Death of a person
10.
o s i a
A musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition
11.
p t r
A perceptual structure
12.
t h m
A repeated pattern of beats or sounds in music.
13.
m p s i i
The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to
14.
c o u
The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
15.
o r m a c
A dramatic or musical entertainment