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This curvy brass instrument has the least amount of space between its partials.
What is French horn?
This is what the numbers of a reed mean. (2.5, 3, 3.5)
What is strength?
The piece that inspired this category’s name.
What is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony? or What is Beethoven 5?
These are the three clefs typically used by a string orchestra.
What are treble, alto, and bass clef?
The involuntary muscle that is responsible for exhalation.
What is diaphragm?
The Ants Song helps you remember these five open strings in order (high to low).
What is E, A, D, G, and C?
These are the components of an undergraduate jury.
What is repertoire, scales, and sight reading?
This hard to pronounce Russian composer wrote 3 ballets, including The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
Who is Tchaikovsky? or Who is Tchikovowsky?
(Bonus points if you can name the third ballet)
John Adams was a minimalist composer whose work Short Ride in this kind of Machine has the clarinets rapidly playing the same three notes on repeat.
What is fast?
Name (or demonstrate) two examples of semi-occluded vocal tract (SOVT) exercises.
What is humming, lip trills, singing through a straw, singing on a “v”, or singing “ng”?
The reason this instrument and clarinet sound different is due to its conical construction rather than the clarinet’s cylindrical-ness.
What is saxophone?
The seven separate parts required to put together a clarinet.
What is mouthpiece, ligature, reed, barrel, upper joint, lower joint, and bell?
This classical composer wrote around 800 works before his death at 35 years old, leaving one work, his Requiem, unfinished. To this day, it has been completed by his students based on previous sketches.
Who is WA Mozart?
This 12x12 grid created by tone rows contain each chromatic pitch in each row and column. Depending on which direction you read it, it can be labeled with P#, I#, R#, or RI#. Also a movie with people wearing sunglasses.
What is a matrix?
This type of drink will dehydrate your vocal folds.
What is caffeinated?
This is where steel pans come from.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
These are the four main types of clarinet.
What are Bb, Eb, A, and bass clarinets?
This was the cause of death for Franz Schubert.
What is “typhoid fever” or syphilis?
This piece by John Cage consists of silence, allowing the audience to become a crucial component of the piece.
What is 4’33”
This type of vocal injury (pathology) is an infection or inflammation of the vocal folds. It may be caused by excessive voice use beyond what the larynx can handle.
What is laryngitis?
A standard bassoon has 9 of this type of key.
What is thumb key?
Name one of the three international systems for clarinet fingerings.
What is Boehm, Albert or Oehler
This out-of-this-world composer started learning trombone hoping it would improve his asthma.
Who is Gustav Holst?
Using set theory notation, name one of the two set classes (in prime form) of the all-interval tetrachord.
What is [0146] or [0137]?
The type of music referred to by CCM.
What is contemporary commercial music? (non-classical, musical theater)