Vocab
The Italian terms for the 2 ways you can play a stringed instrument.
What is Pizzicato and Arco?
The scale with 2 sharps.
What is D major scale?
Play one measure in 4/4 time
What is any rhythm equivalent to 4 quarter notes?
Gradually slows down.
What is a ritardando?
The age of Ms. Esmeralda
What is 23 years old?
An Italian term for short articulation
What is Staccato?
The scale with one sharp
What is the G major scale
Play 3 measures in 3/4 time
What is any rhythm equivalent to 9 quarter notes?
A fast tempo
What is Allegro
The composer of the combined piece both Everitt Orchestra's played this year.
What is Richard Meyer? (Dragon Hunter)
An Italian term for smooth articulation
What is Legato?
D major arpeggio
What is
D F# A
The rhythm which connects two notes in the same bow, but is played with a slight separation between each one.
What is hooked bowing
The amount of different sections typically in a string orchestra.
What is 5?
An Italian term for from the beginning/top.
What is de capo?
G major Arpeggio
What is
G B D
What are 3 eight notes?
A curved line that connects two notes of the same pitch.
What is a tie?
The most famous cellists of our time
What is Yo-yo ma?
An Italian term for a pause/interruption of the music where the orchestra stops
what is a caesura? (railroad tracks)
The scale with no sharps or flats.
What is the C major scale/ the a minor scale?
This is how many 16th notes are in a dotted half note.
What are 12 sixteenth notes?
A stress/emphasis/attack on top of a note
What is an accent?
Something that low strings have, but shoulder instruments do not.