Tempo
The definition of tempo.
What is the speed at which music is played?
A brass instrument that operates using a slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
A clef on the staff also known as the "G" clef.
What is the treble clef?
What is the duration of a quarter note? (Assuming the time signature is 4/4)
What is 1 beat?
These are the lines that extend beyond either above or below the music staff.
What are ledger lines?
This is the definition of ritardando.
What is a gradual decrease in speed?
A woodwind instrument invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
What is the saxophone?
A music marking that connects two notes of the same pitch.
What is a tie?
A note's (whole, half, quarter, eighth) duration is increased by ________ when there is a dot next to it.
What is one half?
This type of barline signifies the end of a piece of music.
What is a double barline?
The definition of BPM.
What is beats per minute?
The instrument family that is often referred to as the "heartbeat" or "backbone" of the ensemble.
What is the percussion?
This is called a half step (or semitone).
What is the distance from key on the keyboard to the next adjacent key.?
This is an emphasis on the weak or offbeats.
What is syncopation?
These are accidentals.
What are symbols that alters a note's pitch by a half or whole step?
This tempo marking is used to describe music that should be played "lively" or "cheerful."
What is allegro?
These two instruments require the most air to play out of all the instruments.
What are the flute and the tuba?
This is the order of flats.
What is BEADGCF?
This is the amount of sixteenth notes that would fit in a whole note.
A musician holds a note forever until given a cutoff with this symbol.
What is a fermata?
This is the metronome marking a clock moves.
What is 60 BPM?
A brass instrument that sounds a major 2nd lower than written
What is the trumpet?
An interval.
What is the distance between two notes?
This is a music symbol that fits three notes in the duration of two.
What is a triplet?
This is what musicians see when they perform music an octave lower than written.
What is 8vb?