Rhythm and Tempo
This is found in the beginning of a song and tells the player how many beats per measure
What is a time signature?
The concert scale that includes our tuning note and is the most common concert scale
What is the concert Bb scale?
This is a brass instrument with the lowest pitch
What is the tuba?
This symbol is F and means to play loud
What is forte?
This writer in the Bible is known for writing songs and played the harp.
Who is David?
What is cut time?
This is the key signature for Shadow Cove March
What is Concert Eb?
This is a woodwind instrument with the highest pitch
What is a piccolo?
This musical symbol is mp and means to play medium soft
What is mezzo piano?
In this time period many composers, like Beethoven and Mozart, wrote music that is still performed today
What is the classical time period?
The Italian word for fast tempo
What is Allegro?
This concert scale has no flats or sharps for concert pitch instruments like the mallets, flutes or trombones.
What is the concert C scale?
This is a percussion instrument that requires specific tuning to pitches
What is the timpani?
This symbol "<" is under or over a note and means to give it more emphasis
What is an accent?
In the 1920's many Black and Latin Americans fused their cultures together to create this style of music.
What is jazz?
What is a whole note?
This scale consists only of half steps
What is the chromatic scale?
This instrument is specifically designed for marching band since the tuba is too heavy to march with.
What is the sousaphone?
This Italian word begins with rit. and means to slow down
What is ritardando?
This band writer lived from 1854-1932 and wrote many traditional marches that are still performed by bands today and even invented an instrument.
Who is John Phillip Sousa?
What is a dotted half note?
The formula for this scale is 1, flat 3rd, 4th, flat 5th, 5, flat 7
What is the blues scale?
If you were to unroll all the tubing in this brass instrument, it would lay out to be 18 feet long.
What is the french horn?
This means that you should play with decreasing volume
What is decrescendo?
Traveling minstrels during this time period would perform music on recorders, lutes, and other stringed instruments.
What is the Medieval time period?