What is used to determine the number of beats in a measure?
top number of the time signature
15
What is used to determine what note gets the beat?
bottom number of time signature
15
What is this symbol called at the beginning of a piece of music?
key signature
15
When playing music, there are instances where some composers want the players to play louder or softer. To do this, composers use what?
dynamics
15
There are instruments that transpose. This means when a player plays a note on a transposing instrument, it is not necessarily the note that sounds. If everyone needs to play the same sounding note, what is this called?
concert pitch
15
If there are not very many members in a band on a variety of instruments, a director may make the decision to make ________________ so that all the parts of the music can be played.
