Music Theory
Music Terms
Marching Trivia
Name that Tune
Composers
100

The closest distance between two notes.

A half step

100

Dolce

Sweetly

100

This term on your coordinate card means "towards the 50"

Inside

100

Junkyard Jam

100

The person who sang "Heart of Gold"

Neil Young

200

When you have run out of lines on a staff, this type of line is used to extend the staff upwards or downwards.

Ledger Line

200

Cantabile

Singable or songlike

200

The number of steps between the hashes

20

200

Fire Dance !

200

WE: Blue Shades

SB: Spoon River

CB: Little Suite for Band

WE: Frank Ticheli

SB: Percy Grainger

CB: Randall Standridge

300

The 1st, 3rd, and 5th note of a scale

Arpeggio

300

Subito

Suddenly

300

The five points of alignment

Ankle, Knee, Hip, Shoulder, Bone behind the Ear
300

Feel It Still

300

Symphony 10 

(Mvt. 3 of our marching show)

Shostakovich

400

The word for the concept that every note has multiple names. G Sharp = A Flat

Enharmonic

400

Con Sordino

With Mute

400

The exact number of inches in an 8 to 5 step

22.5 inches

400

Chained to the Rhythm

400

WE: Peterloo

SB: Variations on a Korean Folk Song

CB: La Madre de los Gatos

WE: Malcolm Arnold

SB: John Barnes Chance

CB: John Beck

500

In this minor scale, the sixth and seventh notes are raised on the way up but not on the way down. 

Melodic Minor

500

Pesante

Heavy

500

The number of steps from the front sideline to the top of the numbers.

14.4

500

WE: La Procession Du Rocio

SB: A Longford Legend

CB: Hypnotic Fireflies

500

WE: L'Inglesina

SB: Hosts of Freedom

CB: The Red Cape

WE: Dellecese

SB: Karl King

CB: James Meredith