Dynamics
The change in loudness between notes or phrases?
What are dynamics?
The number of horizontal lines in a staff.
What is 5?
A symbol meaning silence.
What is a rest?
When all instruments come together, the play as a ______.
What is a band?
Time. How quickly or slowly music is played.
What is tempo?
The italian word for "soft". Also a type of percussion instrument with up to 88 black and white keys
What is piano?
What is B?
Patterns of sound played in time.
What is rhythm?
A family of instruments defined by the metal the instruments are made of.
What are brass instruments?
Poco. Opposite of molto.
Loud. Can also be used to describe a personal strength.
What is forte?
Part of an ocean, one of the five senses, the third space from the bottom.
What is sea/see/C?
The way you pronounce sound, how you "attack" a note. To speak clearly. Example: Staccato.
What is an articulation?
These instruments are tradtiionally made from boxwood, grenadilla, cane, cocobolo, mopani, crocuswood, rosewood and ebony.
What are woodwind instruments?
𝄐 Italian for "stop"
What is a fermata?
What is a decrescendo?
To turn towards something. The top most front part of an animal. The spaces from top to bottom.
What is FACE?
♯, ♭, ♮
Also, Oops!
What are accidentals?
These instruments have wires of nylon, animal gut, steel, phosphor bronze, nickel, brass. They can be plucked or bowed.
What are string instruments?
Play smoothly. Italian for "Tied together".
What is legato?
Medium. Denoted by lowercase m.
What is mezzo?
The other name for treble clef.
What is G Clef?
A type of scale with all notes. Also means colorful. Comes from the rainbow producing nature of the metal chromium.
This family of instruments incluses piano, harpsichord, marimba, slapophone, array mbirra, aquarion, xylophone, lithophone, crotales, chimes, crystallophone, steel pan, glockenspiel, boomwhackers, vibraphone, euphonic array, cosmophone and flair drums.
What is pitched percussion?
This latin superlative suffix is added to the end of words to increase the depth of its absolute original meaning.
What is -issimo?