Band Composers & Compositions
Enharmonic Spellings
Baroque, Classical, & Romantic Composers
Scales, Chords & Musical Intervals
Musical Terms
100
This American Composer wrote the Alma Mater for a Colorado High School after they suffered a National Tragedy.
Who is Frank Ticheli?
100
This is the most common way of respelling A-Flat.
What is G-Sharp?
100
This composer was the most celebrated, and prolific composer of the Baroque Era. Who was responsible for over 100 Chorales, the piece "Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor", and changing the way we wrote 4-Part Harmony.
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
100
This major scale only has two Flats in it, and is the best key for bands to play in.
What is B-Flat Major?
100
A three note chord consisting of a root, third, and fifth.
What is a triad?
200
This British Composer wrote most of the early Band works. Though more noted for his composition of the Planets Symphony, he is responsible for cornerstone band works such as First Suite in Eb, Second Suite in F, and Hammersmith.
Who was Gustav Holst?
200
This is the most common way to respell C-Sharp.
What is D-Flat?
200
This German Romantic Composer is responsible writing several large scale Tone Poems including the Alpine Symphony, Don Juan, and Don Quixote. We also have a teacher here at Mariner who has the same last name.
Who was Richard Strauss?
200
This triad is made up of the notes: A-Natural, C-Natural, and F-Natural. Though not specifically in that order.
What is the F Major Triad?
200
Harsh, discordant, and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
What is Dissonance?
300
This modern work based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" tells the eerie story of a man confronted by a sinister bird, and his slow descent into utter madness.
What is Nevermore?
300
This is the most common way to respell F-Sharp.
What is G-Flat?
300
This German Romantic Composer is the most recognisable of all Romantic composers. He completely changed the musical world with his 3 Pillars of Art, and his monstrous operas like: the Four-Part "Ring Cycle", Tristan und Isolde, and Die Meistersinger. There is even a music festival in his honor held at his home in Bayreuth.
Who was Richard Wagner?
300
This interval is most commonly associated with the theme from Star Wars, and is the ascending interval from F-Natural, to C-Natural.
What is a Perfect Fifth?
300
Tone color, quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound.
What is timbre?
400
This Choral work was transcribed for band by its original composer for Professor Gary Green. The title, written in latin, roughly translates to "Light and Gold".
What is Lux Aurumque?
400
This is the only way to re spell C-Natural with only using one accidental.
What is B-Sharp?
400
This late Classical/early Romantic composer is credited with bridging the gap between the two musical eras. While he is recognized as one of the most popular composers of all time, he was criticized for his later works, though he wrote some of them when he was completely deaf. His Third Symphony, Eroica, is often depicted as Heroic, and is partially the reason why music evolved from the Classical period, to the Romantic.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
400
This scale is the relative minor to C-Major, and follows the key signature exactly from the relative major.
What is the A Natural Minor Scale?
400
The range of an instrumental or a vocal part.
What is Tessitura?
500
This 1971 cornerstone band composition combines a simple chorale theme, first introduced by the woodwinds, with variations of the well known Shaker Hymn “Simple Gifts.”
What is Chorale and Shaker Dance?
500
The only way to respell an F to sound like a G-Natural, using two accidentals.
What is F-Double Sharp?
500
This once child prodigy was the most celebrated composer of the Classical Era. He composed his first symphony at the age of 8, and is responsible for more than 600 works. He was the rival of Joseph Haydn, and is known for his own unique style of music.
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
This minor scale is the relative minor to the B-Flat Major scale, but it includes an F-Sharp in order to make it work chordally.
What is the G Harmonic Minor Scale?
500
A musical notation, marked by a double oblique lines, similar to a pair of slashes //. The symbol is popularly called "railroad tracks". It means to add a complete pause in a verse or musical composition.
What is a Caesura?
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