To start off loud and gradually get softer.
What is diminuendo or decrescendo?
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?
Name and description
What is tremolo? What is to play a note with rapid bow strokes?
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.
What are the little diamonds on top of these notes called?
What is harmonics?
Definition of mezzoforte
What is in between loud and soft?
Difference between staccato and spiccato
What is staccato is short, detached movements while spicatto is short, bouncy movements
Purpose of adding a small dot next to the note
What is to extend that note by half its value?
Common time is also known as
What is 4/4?
Name and purpose
What is a double sharp? What is raises a note by two semitones?
Dynamic that is VERY loud.
What is fortissimo?
A continuous slide upward or downward between two notes.
What is glissando?
Purpose of a double whole note?
What is to make the note twice as long?
What is 2/2 also known as?
What is cut time?
What is the purpose of a caesura?
What is a break or interruption in music / a brief pause
Dynamic that is very soft; like mice.
What is pianissimo?
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
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
The time signature or key signature comes right after the clef when looking at a piece of music
What is the key signature (duh)
Name of this rest
What is half rest?
Dynamic that puts a sudden, strong emphasis on a note to be played loudly for a quick second and then softly
What is sforzando?
Name and description of this articulation
What is tenuto? What is to hold a note to its full length?
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.
What is the name of this key signature?
What is E major?
Name of this symbol?
What is D.S. (Dal Segno) Al Coda?