QUALITIES OF SOUND

DURATION	•                     It produces short and long sounds and fast and slow sounds. •                     Crotchet, minim, adagio, allegro...
PITCH	•                     It is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound •                     It produces high and low sounds •                     Scale, stave, keys...
DYNAMICS	•                     It produces strong or soft sounds •                     ff,f,mf,p,pp, crescendo, diminuendo
TONE COLOR or TIMBRE	•                     It enables us to distinguish different instruments and different voices.