Music Lit.
Cellympics
History
100
A musical notation connecting connecting a group of different pitches.
What is a Slur?
100
Rest the pink on the top of the bow and let the tip of the bow fall. Maintain a flat wrist and bow hold.
What are pinky push ups?
100
Made from animal intestines (usually sheep)
What are gut strings?
200
This key signature has F# and C#?
What is D major
200
Hold the bow vertically and place your right hand at the tip of the bow. Using only your fingers and thumb work your way to the frog and back to the tip.
What is bow crawl or bow climb?
200
Held between the legs of the player, this instrument was mainly used as a basso continuo during the 17th century
What is Baroque Cello?
300
an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note
What is an accent?
300
The four steps for pluck-pluck row your bow
Set, sink, release, pluck
300
He was a composer, writer, shopkeeper and the first person of African descent to be given an obituary in the British Press.
Who is Ignatius Sancho?
400
fremata
400
Play up and down a one-octave scale over and over with hooked bows from frog to tip
Ka-Mania
400
He composed extensively for the cello, including 12 cello concertos and at least 19 cello sonatas.
Who is Luigi Boccherini? (1743-1805)
500
A G major triad is made up of these 3 notes.
G,B,D
500
Pizz, Clap, slap
What is left hand pizzicato acrobatics?
500
He was a composer, virtuoso violinist, a conductor of the leading opera orchestra in Paris, and a renowned champion fencer.
Who is Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges? (1745-1799)
