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 title of our opening piece from the Winter Concert.
What is A Holiday Processional?
The section that had the opening fanfare melody in Apollo Fanfare.
What is the trumpets or the alto saxophones?
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?
This piece included lots of effects including trills, rain sticks, percussion rolls, and snaps.
What is Spring?
The section that had the opening melodic notes in Wrath of the Mechanical Monsters.
What is the low brass?
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?
This piece was originally written for a movie.
What is How to Train Your Dragon?
This melody featured dotted quarter notes.
What is Wrath of the Mechanical Monsters or How to Train Your Dragon?
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 trumpet or the piano?
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?
The name of the composer for Apollo Fanfare.
Who is Robert W. Smith?
This piece told a story.
What is Spring or Wrath of the Mechanical Monsters?
This was our fastest piece this year.
The number of different INSTRUMENTS in our band, counting all percussion instruments as 1 instrument.
What is 7? (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, 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?
This piece from our winter concert was written by Adrian Sims.
What is Recharge?
This piece featured every section with the melody and was an arrangement of a traditional holiday tune.
What is Band on the Housetop?
This sixth grade piece had time signature changes.
What is How to Train Your Dragon?