Band Basics
The most important thing about playing your instrument.
What is tone quality ?
The five lines that musical notes are written on.
What is a staff?
In 4/4 time signature this duration gets one beat.
What is a quarter note?
This Italian dynamic marking means "medium".
What is mezzo?
A famous symphonist who went deaf. He wrote 9 symphonies, the last of which included his famous "Ode to Joy".
Who is Ludwig Beethoven?
The first rule of band class.
What is "no playing or talking when a conductor is on the podium"?
The letter names of the line notes in treble clef.
What is EGBDF ?
In 4/4 time signature this duration gets 2 beats.
What is a half note?
This Italian dynamic marking means "soft".
What is piano?
This baroque era German composer is most famous for his church music and chorales. Several of his children also went on to become prominent composers.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
The three things that contribute to good tone quality.
What are air, embouchure, & posture?
The space notes in treble clef.
What is FACE ?
In 4/4 time signature this duration gets half of a beat.
What is an eighth note?
This Italian dynamic marking means "strong".
What is forte?
This American composer of the Contemporary era wrote High School Cadets and popularized bands in America. He wrote many patriotic marches and famously invented a marching tuba named after him.
Who is John Phillip Sousa?
How loudly you should play.
What is "Never louder than lovely"?
The line notes in Bass clef.
What is GBDFA ?
In 4/4 time signature this duration gets 3 beats.
What is a dotted half note?
This Italian dynamic marking means "very softly".
What is pianissimo?
This composer of March Militaire wrote over 600 hundred songs and lived between the Classical and Romantic eras. He died younger than any other great composer.
Who is Franz Schubert?
This means to hold a note longer than usual.
What is a fermata?
The lines used for musical notes above or below the the five lines of the staff.
What are leger lines?
In 4/4 time signature this duration gets 3/4 of a beat.
What is a dotted eighth note?
This Italian dynamic marking means "loud, then suddenly softly".
What is fortepiano?
This Romantic era Norwegian composer was known as a nationalist and is most famous for his programmatic music to the play Peer Gynt which included Morning and In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Who is Edvard Grieg?