Musical Terms
This musical term means performed with emphasis.
What is marcato?
This first section of a march is typically 8 or 16 bars long.
What is an introduction?
The Hymn to St John the Baptist served as the inspiration to this musical system that assigns syllables to scale degrees.
What is Solfège?
This country is the World's largest exporter of bananas.
What is Ecuador?
A Clarinet player from Minnesota, this person composed both "Seis Manuel" and "Volver a la Montana".
Who is Shelly Hanson?
This term for a 3:2 polyrhythm comes from the Greek word for containing one and a half.
What is Hemiola?
The trio of The Stars and Stripes Forever features the piccolo playing a melody alone, an example of this technique.
What is a solo?
The third syllable in solfege, would be E in C major.
What is Mi?
This Caribbean country is known for their popular sport of cockfighting.
What is Puerto Rico?
This composer wrote over 100 pasodobles, including "Carrascosa" and "Sangre de Artista".
Who was Jaime Texidor?
Bach’s Little This in G Minor is a popular example of a form of composition where a theme is stacked upon itself in different voices.
What is a fugue?
This technique involves shifting the accent from a strong beat to a weak beat, commonly used in ostinatos.
What is Syncopation?
This syllable is represented by a palm raised at an angle.
What is Ray?
With a population of almost 10 million, this city is the largest in Peru.
What is Lima?
The Trio in Amparito Roca modulates from C minor to this key, a parallel key.
What is C major?
The second movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony is marked this term, Italian for "lively".
What is Vivace?
This early 20th century composer and Marine Band conductor is known as the "March King".
Who is John Philip Sousa?
Solfege was a major component of the lyrics of “Do-Re-Mi”, from this Oscar and Hammerstein musical.
What is the Sound of Music?
This country is known for the New Years tradition of giving yellow underpants for good luck.
What is Peru?
One sharp is in the key signature of this key, the relative minor of G major.
What is B minor?
In organ playing, this term, meaning 'all', means using all stops and couplers.
What is tutti?
Also called a breakstrain, this feature of a march serves as a dynamic and energetic contrast to the rest of the march.
What is a dogfight?
These instruments play the section sung in Solfège from the beginning measures of a piece from this concert cycle.
What is Flute? (Oboe, Horn, Trumpet, Timpani, Xylophone, and Alto Saxophone are acceptable answers as well)
This coastal city in Spain was the residence of Jaime Texidor for almost 30 years.
What is Barakaldo?
With a thrust to weight ratio of 1.25, this jet is the most powerful fighter ever built.
What is the F-22A Raptor?