Instrument Families
What are the 4 main Instrument families?
What is Brass, Woodwinds, strings and Percussion.
What does SATB stand for?
What is soprano, alto, tenor, and bass?
Dynamics Purpose
to add interest through volume
This element is known as a music sentence, often ending with taking a breath
What is a phrase
The main moving line in a song
what is melody
What TECHNIQUE is used to create sound on a brass instrument?
What is Buzzing
The voice part for women with a lower range (medium-high)
Adding this ending adds more letters, and means "very"
ex: FF and PP
what is "issimo"?
this dynamics' sign is MP
What is Mezzo Piano
The direction of the note's stem when the pitch goes ABOVE the 3rd line.
what is down?
What family does instruments like the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and synthesizer; belong to?
What is the Keyboard family
A mans voice part the has a low range
what is Bass
this element requires 2 or more pitches at once
what is harmony?
"mezzo"'s meaning
what is Medium or moderate
the pitch does this when the notes of the melody are going down the staff
what is getting lower
What is the Piece that performers must blow in order for woodwind instruments to make a sound?
What is a reed?
A MANS voice part who has a medium-low range
what is Tenor
This elements DESCRIBES how music sounds
What is Timbre
Accelerando meaning
to gradually get faster
Music or chords in a minor key make the music sound like what emotion
minor key= sad
what is Embouchure?
The shape of your mouth when playing instruments.
The 4 ORCHESTRAL STRINGS in SATB order
violin, viola, cello, double bass
This element means the melody should be played disconnected and short
what is staccato
Italian for very very fast
what is Presto?
Rhythms with emphasis on the Off-beats
What is syncopations