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- Rhythm
- Melody
- Harmony
- Timbre
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| The arrangement of long and short sounds and silences |
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| The rate of speed at which music is performed |
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| The organization of rhythm into patterns of strong and weak beats. |
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| A meaningful succession of tones of various levels of pitch |
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| The interval of an eighth |
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| A stepwise rising or ascending pattern of pitches within the range of an octave. |
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| The meaningful combination of two or more different tones |
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| A meaningful combinatin of three or more tones |
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| The first and most important note of a tonal scale, often indicated by the Roman numeral I. |
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| The name of the tonic upon which a tonal piece is based |
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| The most basic chord in the tonal system, consisting of three alternate pitches or two superimposed thirds. |
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| The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument. |
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| The level of volume of a musical sound. |
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| The organization or formal design of a musical composition. |
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| A characteristic manner of composition or performance. |
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| The most common song form. Two or more stanzas are set to the same melody. |
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| A particularly singable and memorable melody which seems complete in itself |
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| A brief, fragmentary melodic idea, recurring throughout a piece. |
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| music may be angular (with large leaps between tones) or smooth (with tones closely connected) in contour |
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| Delay or anticipation of accented beats |
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