🎼Theory Toolbox
🥁Rhythm & Meter
👀Score Detective
🎻String Things
🎵Orchestra 101
GGP Music
100
This symbol, #, raises a note by one half step.
What is a sharp?
100
In 4/4 time, this note normally receives one beat.
What is a quarter note?
100
This dynamic marking 'f' tells you to play this way.
What is forte/loudly?
100
A standard violin has this many strings.
What is four?
100
Before a standard orchestra concert or rehearsal, the ensemble traditionally tunes to this pitch.
What is A?
100
This abbreviation in the music is short for this Italian word. Additionally, what does it mean?
What is ritardando? It means to gradually slow down (and watch the conductor to do so!)
200
This major key has no sharps and no flats.
What is C Major?
200
In 4/4 time, this note normally lasts four beats.
What is a whole note?
200
This symbol '<' tells musicians to gradually become louder.
What is a crescendo?
200
String players use this Italian word when they are told to pluck instead of bow.
What is pizzicato?
200
This musician leads the first violin section and traditionally serves as the leader of the orchestra.
Who is the concertmaster?
200
This Italian word Simile is an indication for this. 
What is "in the same manner?" It tells the musician to play with the same articulation or style as before.
300
The distance from 'C' up to 'G' is this kind of interval.
What is a perfect fifth?
300
A dotted quarter note lasts this many quarter-note beats.
What is one and a half beats?
300
A dot placed above or below a note usually tells you to play it short and separated.
What is staccato?
300
From lowest to highest, the viola's open strings are these four pitches.
What are C, G, D, and A?
300
Letters or numbers placed throughout orchestral music so the conductor can quickly tell everyone where to begin are called these.
What are rehearsal marks?
300
This Italian marking tells musicians to return to the original tempo after speeding up (accelerando) or slowing down (ritardando).
What is a tempo?
400
This is the relative minor key of C major.
What is A minor?
400
Although 6/8 contains six eiths notes, musicians usually feel this many large beats per measure.
What is two?
400
The marking 'con sordino' asks a string player to use this piece of equipment. 
What is a mute? 
400
Playing two strings and pitches simultaneously is known by this term.
What is a double stop?
400
When a string section is told to split so different players perform different notes, this Italian marking often appears.
What is divisi?
400
Named "railroad tracks," what does this symbol indicate?
What is caesura? It tells musicians to stop briefly before continuing.
500
This chord is made of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh.
What is a dominant seventh chord?
500
This rhythmic technique places accents on normally weak beats or between beats.
What is syncopation?
500
Sul ponticello instructs a string player to bow unusually close to this part of the instrument.
What is the bridge?
500
This technique asks a player to strike or play the string with the wooden stick of the bow rather than the hair.
What is col legno?
500
This term refers to the exact moment when a beat or pulse occurs. Also known as the exact moment in a conductor's gesture that visually communicates the pulse to an ensemble.
What is the ictus?
500
What does this musical symbol mean?
What is a time signature? The top number tells you how many beats are in one measure, while the bottom number shows which note value gets the beat.