Fancy (Mispronounced Spanish) Terms
What does "allegro" mean?
What is an Instruction to play in a quick and lively manner
What is symbol that indicates a hold on a note or rest for longer than the typical duration, only cut off by the director or the concert master?
What is a Fermata
What major and minor has three flats?
What is Eb Major and c minor?
E to F is what interval?
What is a Minor 2nd?
What is a the time signature representing a compound triple meter?
What is 9/8?
What does "Largo" mean?
What is A term indicating a slow and broad style of playing
What is the "fff" short for?
What is Fortississimo
If you add F# major and g minor, how many sharps do you have?
What is 11 Sharps?
What is the interval from C to G?
What is a perfect fifth?
What does V/V represent?
What is a secondary dominant?
What does "expressivo" mean?
What is playing expressively with feeling- can be using vibrato and other musicality techniques
What symbols are typically called the "hairpins" or the "Alligators"?
What is a crescendo and decrescendo?
By what intervals do we move from C Major toward sharp land (Hint: Difference between the tonics of each major)
What is ...Fifths?
What is the interval from A# to G double sharp?
What is a Major Seventh
What is the name of a sustained note/tone that remains the same while the chord progression changes?
What is a pedal tone?
What is "timbre"?
What is a distinctive quality of sound that allows a listener to pick apart what instrument or part they might be hearing, despite playing the same pitch or volume
What is the specific name for the symbol nicknamed the "railroad tracks"?
What is a caesura?
(other than a short and abrupt pause in music)
If you add a minor, e minor, b minor, and f# minor, what is you key signature in Major?
What is 6 Sharps- F# Major?
If you want the seventh to be a diatonic note within a Major scale, what type of interval will you need?
What is a Major 7th?
Describe the location of the A (on the treble clef) found on the last staff line in bass clef
What is On the 2 ledger lines below the treble clef
What does "Affretando" mean?
What is an instruction to play/become faster, as if excited?
What symbol is written by students in Orchestra meant to instruct them to look at Ms. Gallman?
What is the eyeglasses!
If you add the key signature of b minor and f# minor and find the inverse accidentals, what key signature will you reach (both major and minor!)
What is Db Major/ bb minor?
If you add the half steps between an Augmented 3rd and a diminished 5th... what is the distance between Bb and the second note, containing the same half steps?
What is 11 half steps- A
What is the title of the textbook given to us in the beginning of the year?
What is Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony