MS Band Quiz - #1

Rhythms

100

This note receives one beat.

What is a quarter note?

200

This rest receives two beats.

What is a half rest?

300

This note receives half a beat.

What is an eighth note?

400

This adds half the value of the note it follows.

What is a dot?

500

The top number in a time signatures tells you this.

What is the number of beats in a measure?

Articulation

100

This symbol tells us to emphasize a note.

What is an accent?

200

This means to play notes light and separated.

What is staccato?

300

This means to connect two or more notes of the same pitch.

What is a tie?

400

This means to play notes smoothly and connected.

What is legato?

500

This means to connect two or more different notes without articulating.

What is a slur?

Terms

100

This tempo marking means fast

What is allegro?

200

This means to play softly

What is piano

300

These symbols tell us how long NOT to play.

What are rests.

400

This refers to the sharps or flats we see at the beginning of a piece of music.

What is the key signature

500

This symbol means we should get louder.

What is a crescendo

Components of Sound

100

This word refers to how we shape our mouths to play.

What is Embouchure?

200

Clarinets produce sound by making this vibrate.

What is the reed?

300

Brass players produce sound by buzzing this body part.

What are the lips?

400

The most important component of a good sound is this.

What is a supported air stream.

500

This percussion rudiment is played RLRR or LRLL.

What is a paradiddle?

Music Notation

100

Third space on treble clef staff.

What is C?

200

Fourth line note in bass clef?

What is an F?

300

This symbol means to lower a note by a half step.

What is a flat (b).

400

This symbol raises a note a half-step.

What is a sharp (#)?

500

The bottom number in the time signature tells you this.

What is what note gets the beat?