Counting
This note equals one beat.
What is a quarter note?
This term refers to plucking the string.
What is pizzicato?
This Italian term is used in music to describe playing loudly.
What is forte?
This is the composer of Luminescence.
Who is Alan Lee Silva?
The one concert piece that has both 4/4 and 3/4.
What is Mythos?
This note equals two beats.
What is a half note?
This term refers to playing with the bow.
What is arco?
This term means to play two strings at the same time.
What are double stops?
This is the composer of Mythos.
Who is Soon Hee Newbold?
This concert piece starts with a 2 eighth note pickup for a viola solo.
What is Fantasia?
This dotted note is equal to three eighth notes.
What is a dotted quarter note?
This term means to gradually slow down.
What is ritardando?
This term describes adding weight to the start of a note.
What is an accent?
This is the composer of Fantasia.
Who is Joseph Phillips?
The one concert piece that does NOT switch from arco to pizzicato.
What is Luminescence?
What is a dotted half note?
This term describes the fast repetition of note played at the tip of the bow.
What is a tremolo?
This term means to gradually speed up.
What is accelerando?
This is the opening tempo in Mythos.
What is Adagio (QN=64)?
This is our only concert piece that starts and ends in a minor key.
What is Mythos?
This term refers to counting the music in smaller units.
What is subdividing?
This term - sometimes called railroad tracks - indicates a break or pause in the music.
What is a caesura?
This term means to play loud and then suddenly soft.
What is fortepiano (fp)?
The term to describe all sections playing the same rhythm in the last two measures of Luminescence.
What is rhythmic unison?
This is the musical term to describe sections playing the same music starting at different times - such as in Fantasia.
What is a canon/round?