Instruments
This percussion instrument is made of metal, hit with a metal stick, and is named after its shape.
What is a triangle?
This tempo marking means to play fast.
What is allegro?
The composer of Arabian Dances.
Who is Roland Barrett?
This piece featured a clarinet and xylophone solo accompanied by various percussion instruments.
What is Arabian Dances?
The time signature for most of our pieces this year.
What is 4/4?
This is the lowest pitched brass instrument in a typical band.
What is a tuba?
This tempo marking means to play at a walking pace.
What is andante?
The arranger of Last Rose of Summer.
Who is Mark Williams?
This piece featured a tempo change led by the percussion section.
What is Imperium?
The top number of the time signature tells us this.
What is the number of beats in a measure?
Name 3 of the types of saxophones.
What is soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophone?
The six basic dynamics from soft to loud.
Note: does not include crescendo or decrescendo.
What is pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff?
Michael Story arranged this piece.
What is All Star?
Thunderbolt Fanfare was written to tell this story.
What is a lightning strike on the composer's house?
The bottom number of a time signature tells us this.
What is which note gets the beat/which note gets one beat?
Name the instrument that Mr. Dill played on our portion of the spring concert.
What is the flute or the trumpet?
This is located at the beginning of your music and at the beginning of each line and has 0-7 sharps or 0-7 flats. It may also change throughout the piece.
What is a key signature?
This composer wrote pieces played by seventh and eighth grade band on the spring concert.
Who is Michael Sweeney?
This piece on the winter concert had sections in different tempos.
What is Santa the Barbarian?
This eighth grade piece was written in 3/4.
What is Snow Globe or Last Rose of Summer?
The number of different INSTRUMENTS in our band, counting all percussion instruments as 1 instrument.
What is 10? (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, percussion)
These two lines that look like railroad tracks tell you to do this.
What is to stop or a grand pause?
The name of the composer we played pieces in both seventh and eighth grade.
Who is Randall Standridge or Brian Balmages?
This piece had a tempo and time signature change.
What is Tango Bells?
This piece switched time signatures frequently.
What is Thunderbolt Fanfare?