Genres
A composition for a solo instrument and keyboard.
What is a sonata?
A small piece of wood inside a stringed instrument that supports the pressure of the strings and distributes vibration to the back of the instrument.
What is the soundpost?
When there is a question in orchestra, this is the correct person to ask for information.
Who is the section principal?
This composer is probably the best known composer of the Classical Period.
Who is Mozart?
When you see this word in your music, you should gradually get louder.
What is crescendo?
Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn were some of the best known composers of this period.
What is the Romantic period?
A study piece that focuses on a specific technical issue.
Etude
A violin is this much higher than a cello.
What is an octave and a fifth.
The very first thing a musician does after walking onstage to perform chamber music.
What is face the audience and bow?
This Russian composer was best known for his ballets, including the Nutcracker.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
Most of the word composers use to give direction to musicians come from this language.
What is Italian?
The musical period from 1600-1750.
What is the Baroque?
A composition for orchestra, usually in several sections.
What is a symphony?
The only member of the string family that is NOT tuned in fifths.
What is the double bass?
This instrument plays a note for the orchestra to tune.
What is the oboe?
This Baroque composer was once held in jail by his employer for trying to quit his job.
Who is J.S. Bach?
An elegant dance with three beats per measure, very popular with Baroque composers.
What is a minuet?
The first period of music when people paid to attend public concerts.
What is the Classical period?
A series of contrasting dance movements
What is a suite?
Modern string instruments are descended from this family of instruments.
What is a viol?
The last member of the orchestra to walk onstage.
What is the concertmaster?
This Classical composer is known as "the father of the string quartet"
Who is Joseph Haydn?
A short section of a concerto when the soloist performs without orchestra, in a free and virtuosic style.
What is a cadenza?
The "Doctrine of Affections" was a guiding principle for composers during this period.
What is Baroque?
A concerto usually consists of this number of movements.
What is three?
This instrument was the predecessor to the modern trombone.
What is a sackbut?
When two players are sharing a stand in orchestra, this player is responsible for turning the pages in a timely manner.
What is the inside player?
This early Baroque composer died of a wound that he self-inflicted onstage.
Who is J.B. Lully?
To play in a heavy, weighty style, and slighly slower tempo.
What is pesante?
The musical period immediately before the Baroque period.
What is the Renaissance?