Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion
What is a band?
Sitting up tall for maximum air support and best tone quality
What is posture?
The five lines and four spaces used for writing and reading music
What is a music staff?
sitting quietly and respectfully in an audience during a live performance and clapping when the piece is finished
What is concert etiquette?
A note that gets 4 beats of sound
What is a whole note?
How loud or soft the music is played
What are dynamics
Means to play again
What is a repeat sign?
A specific type of music such as classical or jazz
What is a genre?
Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon
What are woodwinds?
the way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
What is embouchure?
The clef sign, also known as G clef, that the Flutes, Clarinets, Oboe, Trumpet, Saxophone, French Horn, and mallet percussion read
What is the Treble Clef?
when a musician sits up with good posture but the instrument is not up to play just yet
What is ready position?
A note that gets 1 beat
What is a quarter note?
To perform the music soft
What is piano?
The first time through play the first ending, second time through play the second ending
What is the first and second ending repeat?
Music that has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex. It is mainly homophonic, using a clear melody line over a subordinate chordal accompaniment. Composers such as Haydn and Mozart wrote in this genre
What is classical music?
Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone Euphonium and Tuba
What is the brass family?
The opening of the lips playing a flute, Its shape and size helps to channel our breath and regulate its speed and direction into and across the flute
What is aperture?
The clef that Tuba, Trombone and Euphoniums use
What is the bass clef?
Something a conductor stands on while conducting a musical ensemble like a band orchestra or choir
What is a podium?
What note gets a half beat of sound?
What is an 8th note?
To perform the music loud
What is Forte?
The end
What is fine?
a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse.
What is a folk song?
Family of instruments where one hits, scrapes, or shakes to produce a sound
What is the percussion family?
The characteristic sound of an instrument
What is tone?
It mean it's the end of a piece of music
What is a double bar line?
A time the director tells the performers to arrive before the start of a concert
What is a call time?
Gets 4 beats of silence
What is a whole rest?
Gradually increase the volume
What is a crescendo?
Repeat back to the beginning and then end at the fine
What is a D.C. al fine?
Originated in New Orleans in African American communities and influence by European Americans, this genre of music is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.
What is Jazz music?
Something a woodwind instrument needs to produce a sound
What is a reed?
Staccato,Slur, Accent, Tenuto, and Marcato
What is articulation?
Take a quick breath and rest your air
What is a breath mark?
a practice or trial performance of music or a play for later public performance usually a group of musicians
What is a rehearsal?
Gets 3 beats of sound
What is a dotted half note?
Gradually decrease in volume
What is a decrescendo?
Repeat back to the sign and then end at the fine
What is D.S. al fine?
music with wide appeal amongst the general public that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.
What is pop music?