Dynamics
Articulation
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Keys & Time Signatures
Symbols
100

To start off loud and gradually get softer. 

What is diminuendo or decrescendo? 

100

Looks like a decrescendo mark, to put a strong emphasis on a note than usual for it to stand out. 

What is an accent or marcato? 

100

Name and description 

What is tremolo? What is to play a note with rapid bow strokes? 

100

What do the top and bottom number represent? 

What is the top number represents how many beats in a measure and the bottom number represents the type of beat / what gets the beat. 

100

What are the little diamonds on top of these notes called? 

What is harmonics? 

200

Definition of mezzoforte

What is in between loud and soft?

200

Difference between staccato and spiccato

What is staccato is short, detached movements while spicatto is short, bouncy movements

200

Purpose of adding a small dot next to the note

What is to extend that note by half its value?

200

Common time is also known as 

What is 4/4? 

200

Name and purpose 

What is a double sharp? What is raises a note by two semitones?

300

Dynamic that is VERY loud.

What is fortissimo?

300

A continuous slide upward or downward between two notes.

What is glissando? 

300

Purpose of a double whole note? 

What is to make the note twice as long?

300

What is 2/2 also known as? 

What is cut time?

300

What is the purpose of a caesura? 

What is a break or interruption in music / a brief pause

400

Dynamic that is very soft; like mice. 

What is pianissimo?

400

Description of this accent 

What is playing the note with a very sharp sound / very hard accent / harder than a regular accent / hammered bow stroke

400

Definition of soli? 

What is when an entire section plays a passage rather than just the soloist / a solo but for only one section of the orchestra

400

The time signature or key signature comes right after the clef when looking at a piece of music

What is the key signature (duh) 

400

Name of this rest 

What is half rest? 

500

Dynamic that puts a sudden, strong emphasis on a note to be played loudly for a quick second and then softly

What is sforzando?

500

Name and description of this articulation

What is tenuto? What is to hold a note to its full length?

500

Special Question: How do you count the 2nd to last measure in this picture with the dotted eighth note? (Answer should be in 1 e + a, 2 e + a, etc.) 

What is 1 e + a, 2, a. 

500

What is the name of this key signature? 

What is E major? 

500

Name of this symbol? 

What is D.S. (Dal Segno) Al Coda? 

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