Music History
What is the Pianoforte?
This is the name for the five lines and four spaces on which music is notated.
What is the staff?
This is the family in which you'd find the piano.
What is the percussion family?
This is the name of the staff that has both the treble and bass clef.
What is the Grand Staff?
This is what we should NOT do in the middle of a word while singing.
This type of music written during the Baroque Period made Bach important to the future of music.
What is the fugue?
This is the clef that the right hand in piano music typically plays.
What is treble clef?
This is how sound is made when you touch a piano key.
What is a hammer hits a string?
A fast tempo is more likely to show the emotion of excitement or sadness?
What is excitement?
Before actually singing, one should always do this.
What is warm up?
You have just written a piece of music for the pipe organ when it was invented! This is the Period of music you're composing in.
What is the Baroque Period.
This note is on the third line of the bass clef.
What is D?
If you wanted to play piano quietly, these are the two things you'd do.
What are use the damper pedal and play with a light touch?
This is how you would change the notes C D E F G to show a more somber or sad mood.
What is C D Eb F G?
In order to fill our lungs with enough air to produce good sound, we must have this. (AND DEMONSTRATE!)
What is good singing posture?
These are the main differences between Mozart's and Beethoven's musical styles.
What is Mozart is lighter and more structured; Beethoven is more emotional (less structured) and heavier?
There are this many beats in one measure of 5/4 time.
What is 5?
This is the difference of how sound is made between a piano and a harpsichord.
What is a piano string is hit and a harpsichord string is plucked?
This is how the mood of music changes when moving from major to minor.
What is it goes from happier to sadder?
Your voice tends to be more breathy when singing loudly or quietly?
What is quietly?
Listen to this sample. This Period of music is when it was composed.
What is the Classical Period
This is the name for when you emphasize an upbeat.
What is syncopation?
Listen to John Cage's Sonata X. This is the instrument being played.
What is Prepared Piano?
OPINION QUESTION!!! Do you think it is easier to sing in a group or solo?
Make sure you justify your answer!
Look at this painting. This is the style of music you'd compose if being inspired by this painting.
What is Impressionistic?
Clap and count aloud three full measures of music in 4/4 time. Make sure to include at least one eighth note and rest and at least one half note. (You may write it first!)
What is "Absolutely, Ms. Einhorn! I'm going to start clapping right away!" (Clap. Those. Rhythms!!!)
Using 4 beats, this is how you would play sounds on a piano to show you're scared.
What is "Sure, Ms. Einhorn. I'll play them right now!" (Go to the piano!!!)
Play the first four measures of your melodic mapping piece for the class.
What is "I'd love to Ms. Einhorn! Let me turn on my keyboard!" (Play!!!)
This is a new warm-up that I've just written that includes all five vowel sounds.
What is "Ms. Einhorn! I just made up this new warm-up! Can I sing it for you???" (Let's hear it!)