Band Instruments
Dynamics
Note Values
Tempos
Rehearsal Procedures
100
This reeded instrument is usually made of wood and requires a reed and mouthpiece to play.
What is a clarinet?
100
This dynamic symbol means to play loud.
What is forte?
100
This note gets one beat in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter note?
100
This is a slow tempo.
What is adagio?
100
This is the number one rule in the band room.
What is no talking when the director is on the podium!
200
This is the smallest of the brass instruments and requires a small buzz to play.
What is a trumpet?
200
This dynamic marking means to play soft.
What is piano.
200
This note gets two beats in 4/4 time.
What is a half note?
200
This is a fast tempo.
What is allegro?
200
This is how musicians enter the room.
What is quickly and quietly.
300
This is the largest brass instrument and provides the musical foundation of the band.
What is the tuba?
300
This dynamic marking means to play medium loud.
What is mezzo forte?
300
This note gets three beats in 4/4 time.
What is a dotted half note?
300
This is a very slow tempo.
What is largo?
300
This is the position should band members put their instruments into after putting them together.
What is rest position?
400
This instrument was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1846 and is brass, despite not being considered a member of the brass family.
What is the saxophone?
400
This dynamic marking means to play gradually softer. It is also known as diminuendo.
What is a decrescendo?
400
This note gets one and a half beats in 4/4 time.
What is a dotted quarter note?
400
This tempo means to play "lively."
What is vivace?
400
This is something that must be on your stand, along with your music.
What is a pencil?
500
This instrument is usually made of wood and requires the use of a double reed. It is the smallest of the double reeded instruments.
What is the oboe?
500
This dynamic symbol means to attack the note loudly then become suddenly soft.
What is a fortepiano?
500
Four of these notes fits into one quarter note in 4/4 time.
What are sixteenth notes?
500
This term means to gradually speed up.
What is accellerando?
500
This is what you do after putting your instrument away and adjusting your chair and stand.
What is return to your seat.
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