Pitch and Notes 1: The Basics Quiz

What is pitch in music?

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• ____ is the quality of a sound.
• ____ is what makes a sound unique from other sounds.
• ____ is the “color” of a sound.
• To understand ____ compare the sound of three different instruments.

Select all possible definitions that apply. (there may be more than 1!)

What is “tone”?

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A ____ is a series of sequential pitches that takes place over time. Many songwriters and composers try to make “pleasing” ____s. What you find pleasing may be different from what someone else thinks of as pleasing. ____y is subjective, which means that everyone can feel differently about a ____, and no one is right or wrong, they just have their opinions.

Oftentimes, pleasing ____s have some pattern that implies that the pitches belong together. This is a subjective statement, but much of the time, your pattern-recognizing brain will find and enjoy the patterns of some ____s more than others.

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____ are names that we give to pitches. The story behind how we came up with these names is a long and complicated one involving ancient China, Greece, and a whole bunch of math. We will get to this in a later book, for now here are the facts to know.

• ____ are written and spoken with letters from the alphabet.
• We assign these letters to different pitches.
• There is a pattern to how we assign the letters.
• The letters repeat themselves over and over again in the pattern.

The basic musical alphabet is the same as the first seven letters of the regular alphabet.

The basic musical alphabet can begin on any of the seven letters of the basic musical alphabet. You can count up or down the basic
musical alphabet in ascending or descending order.

The basic musical alphabet ascends and descends infinitely, repeating itself over and over again.

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• The ____ is a symbol placed at the beginning (left side) of a line of staff.
• Shows the position of the G note by curling around the G line 
  (that is why the ____ is also known as the G clef).
• Shows the position of the musical alphabet on the staff
  based on the position of the G note.
• Resembles the letter G (it was originally a capital G when it was invented).

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____ are short lines parallel to the lines of the staff. ____ can be above or below the staff. ____ extend the musical alphabet further from the staff, both ascending and descending.____ are used for writing notes that are higher or lower than the notes on the staff.