Vocab!
This Italian word means 'detached' or 'chopped up'.
What is staccato?
The treble clef helps us find this note.
What is G?
This type of male voice naturally sings the highest.
What is a tenor?
This tiny guitar comes from Portugal, but is very popular in Hawaii.
What is the ukulele?
A half note + a quarter note = this many beats in 4/4 time.
What is 3?
This Italian word means 'time' and tells us the speed of a piece of music.
What is tempo?
A dotted half note is worth this many beats in 4/4 time.
What is 3?
This part of the voice is accessed by using a different set of muscles than your speaking voice.
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What is the falsetto?
Kabuki, a form of dance theatre, comes from this country.
What is Japan?
Many instruments have sections that can be made shorter or longer. If I wanted my flute to make a lower pitch, I would do this to it.
What is "make it longer"?
This Italian word means 'strong' and lets us know that a line of music should be loud.
What is forte?
You could describe this type of chord as sounding "sad".
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What is minor?
This is a note that everyone can sing, because it is within every voice type's range.
The prisyadka is a squat dance and comes from this country.
What is Russia?
In 2018, soprano Audrey Luna broke the world record for doing this at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC.
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What is singing the highest note ever?
*A6*
If a piece of music has the tempo marking 'Schnell', I would play it this way.
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What is fast?
If 'C' is step 1 of the C major scale, then you will get to this note if you go up 3 steps, and then down 4.
What is B?
This type of male voice sings the lowest.
What is a bass?
Although it found fame in France, ballet was actually invented in this country.
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What is Italy?
These keyboard instruments are some of the largest in the world, and produce their sound by air moving through pipes.
*Hint: Johann Sebastian Bach is famous for playing this!*
What is the organ?
This French word means 'quality of sound'.
What is timbre?
This Italian word means 'linked' or 'connected' and tells us to play a line of music smoothly.
What is legato?
This is the ability to hear sounds in our imagination.
What is Audiation?
The oldest instruments ever found were flutes made from the bones of birds. They were almost 5000 years old and were discovered in this country.
What is China?
Even though we hear a note as a single sound, there are actually many frequencies that we don't even realize we are hearing. They are know by this set of notes.
What is the Harmonic Series?