2-Note Tango
Two notes that can be tied to equal three counts in 4/4 time.
What are a half note and a quarter note?
The letter name of the note on the middle line of the treble clef staff.
What is "B"?
A treble instrument that uses a double reed
What is an oboe?
The tempo marking that literally means "happy" and establishes a quick pulse.
What is Allegro?
The composer of "Fur Elise"
Who is Ludwig von Beethoven?
A whole note tied across the bar line to a half note equals this total amount of counts in 4/4 time.
What is 6 counts?
The neumonic device "All Cows Eat Grass" belongs to these kinds of notes in this clef.
What are the space notes in the bass clef.
The player of this string instrument reads music in the alto clef.
What is the viola?
This Italian tempo marking means to play extremely slowly as in a funeral march.
What is grave? (pronounced graw - vay)
Titled "the March King," this composer wrote the famous "Stars and Stripes Forever" march.
Who is John Phillip Sousa?
What is three and a half counts.
Notes outside of the staff are recognized using this short horizontal line.
What is the ledger line?
This common woodwind instrument is not normally found in an orchestra.
What is a saxophone?
To gradually speed up in music is indicated by this musical term _______________.
What is Accelerando (accelerating)?
Talented composer of many movie soundtracks, such as "Superman," "Harry Potter," and "Star Wars."
Who is John Williams?
The total counts of two half notes in 2/2 time signature.
What is two counts?
(The half note gets only one count in 2/2 time)
The middle of the alto clef represents this note on the piano.
What is middle C?
This percussion instrument comes in various sizes, looks like a kettle, and requires mallets.
What is a timpani?
When the composer wants the musicians to slow down the pace, he/she uses the Italian term _____________ or its abbreviation ______ to indicate it in the music.
What are "ritardando" or "rit."?
Baroque (1600 to 1725) period composer who wrote, among many other popular pieces of the period, the Brandenburg Concerti and Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
The amount of eighth notes in a single dotted quarter note in 6/8 time.
What are three eighth notes?
There are seven notes in the musical alphabet. However, this number represents how many unique notes can be represented on the lines and spaces of a musicl staff.
What are 9 notes?
(five line notes and four space notes)
This is the only string section of the orchestra that is traditionally broken into two sections.
What is the violin section?
"-issimo" is added to the end of some of the Italian tempo markings to indicate this.
What is "more than"?
Who is Samuel Barber?