Vocabulary
Articulation that ask the musician to emphasize the note.
Accent
Quarter note + Half note
3 Beats
Name 3 different time signatures
4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 5/4, 6/8, 2/2, etc
When sightreading a piece of music, what is the first thing the musician should check?
Signature. Time and Key.
What era is Johann Sebastian Bach from?
Baroque
Tells the musicians which notes will be used for the music. Based off a scale.
Key signature
1.5 Beats
Order of dynamics from softest to loudest.
pp-p-mp-mf-f-ff
What is the most important performance quality?
Tone Quality
Which composer wrote movie music?
John Williams
What does Accelerando ask the musician to do?
Gradually speed up
Dotted half note + one Quarter note
4 beats
What is embouchure and why is this important?
The shape of the mouth when playing a WW or brass instrument. This helps produce better tone quality and build stamina.
Describe how to practice a piece of new music and what tools can you use?
Look at the signatures, find difficult rhythms, articulations, etc. Tuner and metronome.
What composer is also known as the "March King"?
John Phillip Sousa
What word tells the musician to slow down?
Ritardando
Dotted Quarter note + Dotted Quarter note
3 Beats
Describe the difference between how Major and Minor scales sound.
Major is happy, minor is sad.
Build the Pyramid of Sound. Low to high.
Tuba, Trombone, Alto, Clarinet, Trumpet/Flute
This composer wrote Ode to Joy and was deaf by the end of their life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
What does legato mean?
Long, smooth, connected.
Dotted eighth note + Sixteenth note
1 Beat
What your instrument is out of tune, what do you do to tune it?
Flat you push in, sharp you pull out.
Conduct 2 different time signatures
2/4 Down up, 3/4 down out up, 4/4 down in out up
Classical era composer who was a prodigy and composed Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart