Instruments of the Band
Fundamentals
Basic Music Symbols
Concert Words
Basic Rhythms
Dynamics
Repeat Signs
Genre
100

Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion

What is a band?

100

Sitting up tall for maximum air support and best tone quality

What is posture?

100

The five lines and four spaces used for writing and reading music

What is a music staff?

100

sitting quietly and respectfully in an audience during a live performance and clapping when the piece is finished

What is concert etiquette? 

100

A note that gets 4 beats of sound

What is a whole note?

100

How loud or soft the music is played

What are dynamics

100

Means to play again

What is a repeat sign?

100

A specific type of music such as classical or jazz

What is a genre?

200

Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon

What are woodwinds?

200

the way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.

What is embouchure?

200

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?

200

when a musician sits up with good posture but the instrument is not up to play just yet

What is ready position?

200

A note that gets 1 beat 

What is a quarter note?

200

To perform the music soft

What is piano?

200

The first time through play the first ending, second time through play the second ending 

What is the first and second ending repeat?

200

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?

300

Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone Euphonium and Tuba

What is the brass family?

300

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? 

300

The clef that Tuba, Trombone and Euphoniums use

What is the bass clef?

300

Something a conductor stands on while conducting a musical ensemble like a band orchestra or choir

What is a podium?

300

What note gets a half beat of sound?

What is an 8th note?

300

To perform the music loud

What is Forte?

300

The end

What is fine?

300

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?

400

Family of instruments where one hits, scrapes, or shakes to produce a sound

What is the percussion family?

400

The characteristic sound of an instrument

What is tone?

400

It mean it's the end of a piece of music

What is a double bar line?

400

A time the director tells the performers to arrive before the start of a concert

What is a call time?

400

Gets 4 beats of silence 

What is a whole rest?

400

Gradually increase the volume

What is a crescendo?

400

Repeat back to the beginning and then end at the fine

What is a D.C. al fine?

400

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?

500

Something a woodwind instrument needs to produce a sound

What is a reed?

500

Staccato,Slur, Accent, Tenuto, and Marcato

What is articulation?

500

Take a quick breath and rest your air

What is a breath mark?

500

a practice or trial performance of music or a play for later public performance usually a group of musicians

What is a rehearsal?

500

Gets 3 beats of sound

What is a dotted half note?

500

Gradually decrease in volume

What is a decrescendo?

500

Repeat back to the sign and then end at the fine

What is D.S. al fine?

500

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?

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