ABCs
Type of (8) note scale with half steps only between the 3rd & 4th and 7th and 8th tones.
What is the major scale?
The liquid that is crucial for smooth and fast valve movement.
What is valve oil?
The most often performed trumpet concerto in the world.
What is the Haydn Trumpet Concerto?
Most commonly, straight mutes are made of this material.
What is aluminum?
A word that describes maestoso?
What is majestic or stately?
This type of minor scale utilizes the augmented second between the 6th & 7th degrees.
What is the harmonic minor scale?
The full name of the P.E.T.E.
What is the Personal Embouchure Training Exerciser?
The full name of the composer of the trumpet solo Petite Piece Concertante.
Who is Guillaume Balay?
This type of mute has a covered sound and gained prominence in jazz music in the early 20th century.
What is the cup mute?
A musical term that means to continue playing in the same manner.
What is simile?
This type of scale utilizes only half steps.
What is the chromatic scale?
Breathing device that has a ping pong ball inside, used to enhance one's breathing technique.
What is the breath builder?
The full name of the composer of the method book entitled "Odd Meter Etudes for Treble Clef Instruments."
Who is Everette Gates?
The adjustable part of a harmon mute.
What is the stem?
Define the musical term poco a poco.
What is little by little?
This type of scale has a hazy sound without a distinct tonic or leading tone.
What is the whole tone scale?
The most common device that your professor asks you to use in every practice session (no one ever listens).
What is the metronome?
What is the Carnival of Venus?
A famous member of the trumpet section of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Band who was known for his great work utilizing the plunger.
Who is Snooky Young?
A note or notes that proceed the first full measure.
What are the pickup note(s) or the anacrusis?
The musical mode (scale) that starts on the fourth degree on the major scale.
What is lydian?
The Louisville based instrument case company.
What is Messina bags?
One of two solo works for trumpet that utilize the piano pedal, without the keys.
What is the Berio Sequenza or Robert Suderberg's Chamber Music VII, Sonata for Trumpet?
The earliest known usage of the trumpet mute was by this composer in 1607.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
A harmonic device that changes the last chord of a work in a minor key to a major key.
What is the picardy third?