Reading Music
A scale with no sharps or flats that starts on C.
What is the C scale?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
The correct way to stand while singing.
What is posture?
The number of keys a piano has.
What is 88?
A group of two notes played together.
What is an interval?
A way to remember the note names on the spaces of the treble staff.
What is F-A-C-E?
The oldest type of music we looked at characterized by slow, flowing textures, and primarily vocal.
What is Renaissance Music?
A way of trying to make our voice make different sounds so we get more comfortable singing.
What is vocal exploration?
The pedal that when pressed makes the piano continue to ring out.
What is the damper?
A group of three or more notes played together.
What is a chord?
The clef that is on the top staff and looks swirly.
What is a treble clef.
A piece of virtuosic and fast music.
What is a toccata?
What is shoulders?
What part of the piano that hits the strings.
What is the hammer?
When another line of music plays along with the melody, this is referred to as this.
What is harmony?
The clef on the bottom staff that looks like a sideways smiley face
What is a bass clef?
A contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject_ is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
What is a fugue?
The solfege syllables we use to sing a major scale.
What is Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do
The type of piano in the band room that is characterized by being long.
What is a grand piano?
The four chords we looked at during class.
What are I - IV - V - vi?
A way to remember the note names on the lines of the treble staff.
What is Every Good Boy Does Fine?
The three musical aspects that help determine genre.
What are instruments, voice, and stlye?
How we want the inside of our mouth to be when we sing.
What is open/like a yawn?
The fingers associated with the numbers 1-2-3-4-5.
What is thumb, pointer, middle, ring, and pinky finger?
A series of chords play in a certain order is referred to as this.
What is a chord progression?