Instrumentation
The amount of instrument families.
6- Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Percussion, Keyboards, Electronic
What is presto?
What is 1
We think of articulation as ____.
What are blocks of sound?
The music form in which there is not any change in melodic theme.
What is strophic (AAAA...)
Name three brass instruments
Trumpet, trombone, tuba, french horn, euphonium
What is mezzo?
What is the eighth note?
A fermata ______.
What is holds the note longer than its original value?
Melody is ___ note(s) being played at a time.
What is one?
The two types of percussion instruments are
What is pitched and non-pitched.
What is fortissimo?
What is three beats?
Separation
What is staccato?
Pitch is calculated in this unit of measurement.
What are Hertz?
The reason why electric guitar is not considered a string instrument
What is that it needs electricity to reverberate the sound?
A faster tempo marking, sounding like an allergy medication
What is Allegro? (allegra)
What is four beats?
The accent has a strong front to the sound, then it does this.
What is decays or gets softer?
This musical concept has two or more notes playing at the same time in order to support the melody.
What is harmony?
The reason behind calling a flute, saxophone, or oboe a woodwind.
What is historically made of wood or uses reeds to make sound?
The Italian tempo marking for "walking pace"
What is andante?
In a time signature, there reason why you cannot have 6 in the denominator is _________.
What is that the denominator must be multiplied by two in order to change (1,2,4,8,16...)
This musical form brings back the "A" theme after each new theme.
What is rondo? (ABACAD...)