Signs and Symbols
Elementary
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Song Title
100
What is another word for the treble clef?
What is the G clef
100
A group of beats or pulses marked off in musical notation by "bar lines."
What is a Measure
100
A kind of music that emerged in the southern United States at the end of the 19th century which includes syncopated rhythms, brass and double bass and improvisation. Substyles of this genre are ragtime and blues.
What is Jazz?
100
Born in Brooklyn in 1898, he is the composer of Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris
Who is George Gershwin?
100
Also known as the National Anthem.
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
200
This symbol means to gradually increase in loudness or intensity.
What is crescendo.
200
An adjective applied to the scale that includes all of the 12 pitches (12 semi-tones).
What is "Chromatic."
200
A now popular form of music that has spiritual roots in church solos derived from rural African Americans in the southern United States.
What is Gospel?
200
This composer wrote masterpieces such as Requiem, Coronation Mass and Great Mass in C.
Who is Mozart?
200
In this popular childhood song, the fatalism of the rhyme is brutal: the roses are a euphemism for deadly rashes, the posies a supposed preventative measure; the a-tishoos pertain to sneezing symptoms, and the implication of everyone falling down is, well, death.
What is "Ring around the Rosie?"
300
This symbol has two names: Bass and .......
What is "the F clef."
300
The sharps or flats appearing at the beginning of each staff to indicate the key of a composition.
What is the "key signature."
300
A music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues.
What is Funk?
300
Italian for "in the manner of the chapel," this name is for a group or solo performance without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.
A cappella
300
This famous song dates back to the 1890s, when Louisville schoolteacher Patty Hill and her sister, Mildred, composed a song that would be simple enough to sing with Patty’s kindergarten students.
"Good Morning to you, good morning to you, good morning dear teacher, good morning to you."
What is the Happy Birthday Song?
400
This Chord is dominant in the key of C.
What is G major ?
400
Reading music without preparatory study.
What is sight reading.
400
This is an example of.....
What is heavy metal?
400
This Italian composer was a violin virtuoso who also happened to be a Roman Catholic Priest.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
400
This song is a round for three parts to a short Latin text from the Agnus Dei. It translates, "Give us Peace."
What is Dona Nobis Pacem?
500
These letters indicate a sudden strong accent on a single note or chord.
sfz
What is sforzando?
500
Another word for "chorus" in a choral piece.
What is refrain?
500
a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban Black performers in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter intoned by a vocalist or vocalists:
What is rap?
500
Known as one of America's greatest composers, conductors, and personalities, he wrote musicals, operas, and oratorios. He was a conductor for the New York City Symphony Orchestra as well as the New York Philharmonic.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
500
This is the most famous madrigal by Orlando Gibbons. It is scored for 5 voices and tells a story of a bird who only sings right before death.
What is "The Silver Swan?"