History
Inventor of the 12-Tone method.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
Word for playing softly.
What is piano/pianissimo?
The names of the two clefs in music.
What is treble and bass clef?
This feature of membranophones separates them from other categories.
What is a skin/membrane?
"Take the A Train" uses this, which is rhythm with emphasis placed on weak beats.
What is syncopation?
Word for when you compose and perform at the same time.
What is improvisation?
Word for playing notes in a smooth, connected manner.
What is legato
The interval name for four half steps.
What is a major third?
War Requiem uses this, which is when a pitch/interval/chord sounds unstable or tense.
What is dissonance?
The name of the 4th note in a scale.
(Tonic, supertonic, mediant, ____)
What is subdominant?
The note that has 3 flags on the end of its stem.
What is a 32nd note?
The parallel key of G Major.
What is g minor?
The first practitioners of musique concrete were based in this city and country.
What is Paris, France?
The type of musical category that woodwind and brass instruments fall under.
What are aerophones?
This is what the meter/time signature is written BEHIND when marked onto sheet music.
What is key signature?
Which 2 intervals does a triad consist of?
(Hint: they are the same interval)
What is a third?
The inventor of the theremin, Leon Theremin, was from this country.
The 3 sections of sonata-allegro form.
What is exposition, development, recapitulation?
E flat and D sharp, G flat and F sharp are categorized as this kind of pitch.
The major key with 4 flats in it.
What is A flat major?