Band Things
Notes
Definitions
Blast from the Past
Symbols
100

The name of your band book?

What is Essential Elements?

100

The name of the note on the first line of the treble clef staff

What is E

100

Cancels a flat or sharp

What is a natural

100

The underlying pulse in music

What is beat

100

Indicates the end of a piece of music

What is a double bar line

200

Where your fingers rest on the keys of your instrument

What are "home keys"

200

Lowers a note a half step

Flat

200

Emphasize the note

What is an accent

200

A specific, pre-determined rhythm pattern is designated as "poison".

What is poison rhythm

200

Indicates how many beats per measure and what kind of note gets a beat

What is a time signature

300

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

Embouchure

300

The enharmonic for G#

A flat

300
Two names for the same note

What is an enharmonic

300

A small four-stringed guitar of Hawaiian origin.

What is a ukulele

300

One or more notes that come before the first full measure. 

What are pick-up notes

400

The composer of "Ode to Joy"

What is Beethoven

400

The distance between two notes

What is an interval

400

A four note pattern consisting of a whole step, whole step, half step

A tetrachord

400

With this instrument, you place your left hand on top, the right hand on the bottom

What is a recorder

400

Hold the note (or rest) longer than normal

What is a fermata

500
The concert band music that we have been working on for a long time.

What is "Jurassic Park"

500

B to C and E to F

Natural half steps

500

Two tetrachords joined by a whole step

What is a major scale

500

I I I I  I IV V I  V IV I I

What is the blues chord progression

500
Combinations of sharps or flats after the clef at the beginning of each stave


What is a key signature

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