Ways To Learn
A model usually used in younger classrooms in which students follow a teacher's given melody.
What is Call and Response?
Markings over notes.
Ex. staccato, tenuto, legato
What is Articulation?
The process by which a musician ensures that all measures have direct numbers.
What is Numbering Your Measures?
A class that music majors take involving the study of music predating them.
What is music history?
A routine usually done at the start of beginner band classes that involves audiation of notes.
What is a Counting Exercise?
A review tool in which students flip cards for definitions on note names.
What are Flashcards?
The indication at the beginning of the piece as to what range you will be playing in.
What is a clef?
The boxes above measures that indicate markers in the score.
What are Rehearsal Markers?
First person to notate pitches for reading.
Who is Guido d'Arezzo?
Tempo, rhythm, and time signature are all examples of this tool.
What is a Metronome?
Listening to identify aspects of the music, to build stronger listening skills.
What is Active Listening?
The method by which notes are laid out across the staff.
What is Staff Notation?
Notating harmonies in music by listening to it.
What is Harmonic Dictation?
The "Big Three" of the classical composers era.
Who are Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven?
The numbers/fraction on the staff that indicates the number of beats in a measure.
What is the Time Signature?
The traditional model by which musical notes are taught.
What is the "Hear it/Say it/Read it/Write it" model?
The process of reading/translating/rewriting lyrics for a better understanding.
What is Lyrical Analysis?
Notating melodies in music by listening to it.
What is Melodic Dictation?
The first known major composer of polyphonic music.
Who is Léonin?
The pulses within a measure.
What are beats?
A series of books that beginners play from in their 6th-grade bands, including the publisher.
What is the Essential Elements series by Hal Leonard?
The process in which a conductor reviews a score in preparation to conduct.
What is Score Study?
The process by which a musician writes out large or small-scale works.
What is Composing?
Things like composers' notes, diary entries, or original manuscripts that are used in study.
What are Primary Sources?
The study of the math and figures behind music.
What is Music Theory?