Musical Terms
_________ is the band word for Volume
Dynamics
A ___________ sign tells you to go back a play a portion of the music again.
Repeat Sign
The _______________ is the main idea of a piece of music, and is the most likely part to get stuck in your head.
Melody
To play the SAME thing at the SAME time is to play in _______________.
Unison
A fermata tells the musician that a note will be held longer than normal. What should you do when you see this symbol?
Look Up/Look at the Conductor
_______________ means to get louder gradually
Crescendo
A ____________ Clef looks like a lopsided frown. Trombones, Baritones, Tubas, and Timpani use this clef.
Bass
The word background parts in a song are called the
Accompaniment
A _____________ is a piece of music where two or more groups play the SAME thing, but start at DIFFERENT times.
Canon/Round
Talk
Clap in between movements
Take photos with flash
Eat food
Be on their phone/allow their phone or alarm to go off
Walk around
Walk in front of the stage
Walk on stage
The C in D.C. al Fine stands for _____________
Capo or Head
These vertical lines separate music into chunks of notes.
Barlines
A __________________ is a combination of three or more notes all played at once.
Chord
A _______________ is when two groups play DIFFERENT things at the SAME time.
Duet
How do you show your conductor/Director you are ready to begin?
Go to Rest Position
Rit. stands for Ritardando, which signals the musician to do what?
Slow down
Music is separated into even chunks of notes called _________________.
Measures
A ________________ is created when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmony
A March is a piece of music that has a specific form, and is typically played with _______, bouncy notes.
Short
In band, we must always have a ___________ ready in case we need to make changes to our sheet music.
Pencil
What Italian word literally means strong, and signals musicians to play with a full sound?
Forte
An _____________ is a symbol that looks like a greater than/less than sign, and it makes an individual note louder than the surrounding notes.
Accent
__________________ is how high or how low a note sounds.
____________________ is a note's relationship to time.
Pitch
Rhythm
The 3 contrasting segments of our piece "Old McDonald Suite" are called ___________________.
Movements
When we play music with different parts in band, the director will use special gestures to help sections come in at the correct time. These gestures are called _______________.
Cues