AP Music Theory
Color Guard
Seniors
Marching Band
Instruments
100

The proper name for the first note of a scale

The Tonic

100

You do this on the count before releasing a toss or initiating a spin

squeezing
100

This senior is section leader for the alto saxes

Bill Morrison 

100
The name of our field show this year

City of Lights

100

This instrument is the lowest voiced brass instrument we use, and is often first to tune the band

Tuba

200

The name of a scale following the step pattern of Whole Whole Half Whole Whole Whole Half

Major Scale

200

Pitch tosses rotate on this angle

45 degrees

200

This senior was guard captain this year

Olivia Tran

200

The name of our field show last year

Pathways

200

A smaller, higher-pitched flute

Piccolo

300

Two notes that have the same pitch but are notated differently are said to be this

Enharmonic 

300

This hand pushes on standard rifle tosses

Right

300

This senior marched in Gold Drum and Bugle Corp this past summer

Isaiah Leal

300

The name of the position we put our feet at during a halt

First Position

300

Pitched percussion instrument known as the bells or also 

Glockenspiel

400

This cadence denotes a IV to I chord progression

Plagal Cadence

400

This creates the good catching sound on rifles

Pennies or squeezing/bapping
400

This senior has a "cult" dedicated to her on Instagram

Jade Robinson

400

Point "here" at the very end of our field show

The Box

400

An early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance era

Sackbut

500
A nonharmonic tone that denotes a step follow by a skip in the opposite direction 

Appoggiatura 

500

This is where the WGI World Championships is held which is why you should help the color guard raise money for their trip

Dayton, Ohio

500

This senior has a dad who played saxophone

Lucas Pollacchi

500
The name of the Earth, Wind & Fire pep tune that we never played this year but all had in our flip folders

In the Stone

500

A pianolike instrument that plucks its strings at constant dynamic 

Harpsichord

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