Composers
The 1984 movie "Amadeus" details the life of which composer?
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This stringed instrument sometimes reads on both alto and bass clefs.
What is the viola?
Playing more than one note on the bow is indicated with this articulation marking.
What is slur?
A note with a filled in note head with a connected stem.
What is a quarter note?
An apostrophe symbol indicates string players should do this in between phrases, measures, or notes.
What is lift the bow?
This composer wrote soundtrack scores to Interstellar, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Lion King.
Who is Hans Zimmer?
The only string instrument that should not rosin their bow in both directions.
What is the double bass?
In music, we refer to pitch accuracy as this 4-syllable term.
What is intonation?
This type of rest is creating by drawing a "z" and placing a "c" directly under it.
What is a quarter rest?
The term for when an instrumentalist lifts their instrument and breaths before playing the very first note to help the ensemble play together.
What is "cue"?
Mozart, Hadyn, and Beethoven were all composers that overlapped in this musical era.
What is the Classical era (1750-1820)?
This is where sound comes out of on a string instrument.
What are the F-holes?
This Italian word is used to describe dynamics and is directly translated to "medium" or "middle."
What is mezzo?
This note is 1/4 of a single beat in 4/4 time.
What is a sixteenth note?
The order of the double bass strings from lowest to highest in pitch.
What is E, A, D, G?
This composer (last name beginning with "H") was known as the "Father of the Symphony."
Who is Joseph Hadyn?
The music book that the band or orchestra conductor reads from that includes all the parts.
What is the score?
When music falls off the beat.
What is syncopation?
This is the articulation that looks like a "greater than" sign and that gives music extra emphasis.
What are accents?
This is the rule for when we play open string notes (C, G, D, A, E) during a scale.
What is play open strings on the ascending scale and 4th finger on the descending scale?
This composer wrote the iconic symphony opening that was used in WWII to communicate ally victory over rebel forces (short-short-short-long = morse code V).
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
The stringed instrument with the highest number of positions.
What is the violin?
This is the one syllable term that describes the highness or lowness of sound.
What is pitch?
The systematic study of the music language and all its principles.
What is music theory?
This is how many As are played during a symphonic orchestra tuning and which instrument groups they are for.
What is 2; first one for winds and brass, second one for strings?