Acronyms
BPM, a common measure of time or tempo:
Beats Per Minute
Multiple pitches played simultaneously
Chord
Band! Ten! Hut! ___!
Pride!
This group of students is responsible for distributing and organizing sheet music
Librarians
Dr. P is unhappy with what unsolicited change made to his classroom over the summer?
They shrunk his whiteboard!!!
MPA—both Marching and Concert:
Music Performance Assessment
This Italian vocab word means ‘to gradually increase in volume’:
Crescendo
Poor, Fair, Good, _____ ,Superior
Excellent
The instrument Kostas played pre-sax
Oboe
Our band consists of how many musicians?
48
M&M's
Marching & Maneuvering
Italian musical term that means “slowing down”
Rallentando/Ritardando
The Berkeley Marching ________
Buccanneers
Dr. P has been with our Berkeley community for this many years
Ten
This front-row woodwind instrument uses a double reed
Oboe
H.O.T Day, a favorite band tradition
Herd of Thunder, the marching band at USF
Focusing on this aspect of a piece exposes the music's motion and fluidity.
Dynamics
Pianissimo, piano, mezzo-piano, mezzo-forte, forte, ______
Fortissimo!
An uncommon saxophone that is occasionally played in concert band; Gavin owns one; some may describe it as a “golden clarinet”
Soprano Saxophone
This many seniors have had older siblings in the band
PASTA *wager*
Posture! Air! Shape! Tone! Articulation!
Musical term that means “from the beginning,” abbreviated as D.C.
Da Capo
Sounds of the ______
Stadium
What is the transpositional interval of an alto saxophone?
Major 6th down from concert
Initially the name of an Ancient Greek string instrument, these metal prongs help us attach our flip folders to our instruments during some performances, though they are always going missing when we need them
Lyres