Marching Band
Genre
Instruments pt.2
Composers
Is This Music Theory?
100

Touchdown, the team has scored!!! Different in every university, this tune is played for celebration.

Fight song

100

An abbreviation of its own namesake, this genre is comprised of the most listened to music of its time and is constantly changing. 

Pop

100

This Instrument is the most versatile, and is made up of many parts, you must have a certain amount of skill to play it…Badum tsss

Drum set

100

This Russian composer composed three ballets and one of them is always showed around christmas

Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky 

100

The Spaces on the treble clef staff from bottom to top spells this word

Face

200

This Brass Instrument is one of the biggest on the field and is typically worn by the player

Sousaphone

200

This wide genre includes such classic traits as swing rhythms, pitch bending, and bar form improvisation.

Jazz

200

This Instrument in the string family can be found mainly in orchestra, but has had its fair share in Jazz, and the occasional wind ensembles

Bass/Double Bass

200

This American composer wrote 4'33" which is absolute silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

John Cage

200

Finish this joke “Want to hear the joke about a staccato? Nevermind it’s too___”

Short

300

"Rocket Marching Band, hats and gloves!!!" as the clock ticks down and the audience roars, the band gets ready for this performance.

Halftime

300

Fast rhythms and sustained synthesizers create vivifying club music in this type of dance music, or EDM for short.

Electronic

300

This Percussion instrument originates from the middle east, and is made from steel or brass, you must hold this instrument up high to produce the best sound

Triangle

300

This German Composer who composed "Ride of The Valkyries" also enjoyed cross dressing 

Richard Wagner

300

a group of related pieces played in sequence “Not salty but___”

Suite/Sweet

400

It's that time of the year again, these next few weeks will be challenging, make sure to bring water, sunglasses, and your instrument.

Band Camp

400

Teen angst and deep emotions dominate the feel of this genre. Formerly known as 'underground', it gets its popularity from niche or otherwise cult followings.

Alternative/Indie

400

This woodwind instrument has a rounded bell and a double reed, and is NOT the clarinet

Oboe

400

This German composer and pianist who composed "Overture to a Midsummer Nights Dream" and "Wedding March" also enjoyed painting with watrercolor

Felix Mendelssohn 

400

 This  jazzy chord can be made from the 1st 4th and 5th of the scale  but is also a phrase that is used in among us

Sus/Suspension

500

This Location has luxury seats, an amazing view of the football field, and is the ideal point where the horn of your instrument should be pointing towards. 

Press Box

500

This type of rural folk music has its roots in Afro-Caribbean music and hold stylistic qualities of jazz and rhythm and blues.

Reggae

500

Ths quirky instrument comes in many colors,  has an eighth note-shaped body, a  moving mouth, and can sing in 3 different ranges

Otamatone

500

This English composer who composed the pomp and circumstance marches, wrote the theme for his cello concerto on a  after he had dental surgery.

Edward Elgar

500

 This term happens a lot in jazz, but is also used when I forget my lines in a play

Improvise

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