Tempos
Walking speed
What is Andante?
Very loud
What is Fortissimo?
Six strings, strummed, or plucked.
Visited Iowa in the Summer of 1893 and was inspired to write the New World Symphony.
What is Anton Dvorak?
Means stop.
What is Fine?
Fast
What is Presto?
Piano
What is quiet?
Brass instrument with a long moveable slide.
What is trombone?
What is Johannes Brahms?
What is a fermata?
Speeding up
What is accelerando?
Medium loud
What is mezzo forte?
Eighty-eight keys.
What is the piano?
Loved trolls, wrote a lot of trollish music.
What is Edvard Grieg?
One steady beat of sound.
What is a quarter note?
Largo
What is very slow?
Getting louder
What is crescendo?
Violin so large you must sit down to play it.
What is the 'cello?
What is Johann Sebastian Bach?
Two sounds in one steady beat. Joined at the hip. Work on the buddy system - never see one without the other.
What are eighth notes?
Slowing down
What is ritardando?
Getting quieter
What is diminuendo?
Largest brass instrument - more than 35 feet of tubing.
What is the tuba?
Extreme violinist. Folks thought he sold his sold his soul to the devil for violin playing abilities.
One steady beat of silence.
What is quarter rest?