Key Signatures
Time Signatures
Music Theory
Vocabulary
Rehearsal Competency
100

The key signature with 2 sharps

D Major


100

The kind of note that gets the beat in 4/4 time

Quarter Note

100

The number of beats in a dotted half note

3

100

The word that describes changes in musical volume

Dynamics

100

The names of Orchestra Ensembles at NHS

Beginning, Concert, Philharmonic, Chamber

200

The key signature with no sharps or flats

C

 Major

200

The number of eighth notes in a measure of 2/4

4

200

The distance between two notes

Interval

200

A dot below or above a note

Staccato

200

Concert call time

6:30PM

300

The key signature with 3 sharps

A Major


300

The kind of note that gets the beat in 6/8 time signature

Eighth note

300

The scale where the 6th and 7th notes are raised on the way up, and lowered on the way down

Melodic Minor Scale

300

A line that connects two or more of the same note

Tie


300
The purpose of the conductor

To keep the orchestra together

400

The relative minor of C Major

A minor


400

The number of dotted half notes in a measure of 6/8 

2

400

Identify the enharmonics of: F-sharp, A-sharp, and D-flat

Gb, Bb, C#

400

The tempo marking that means "at a walking pace"

Andante

400

The name of the object Ms. Sumpter uses to conduct

Baton

500

The notes of the B (Natural) Minor Scale and Arpeggio, in ascending order

Scale: B C# D E F# G A B

Arpeggio: B D F#

500

The number of sixteenth notes in a measure of 3/4

12 sixteenth notes

500

What is the interval between C to A-flat?

Minor 6th
500

The word for breaking down a main beat into smaller units

Subdividing

500

State all of the pieces we have performed so far this year, in concert order

Fall: Ludwig's Tango, El Toro

Winter: Once Upon A December, Carol of the Bells

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