Counting
This term refers to counting the music in smaller units.
What is subdividing?
This term means to gradually slow down.
What is ritardando?
This term means to gradually speed up.
What is accelerando?
This is the composer of Luminescence.
Who is Alan Lee Silva?
This is the composer of Mythos.
Who is Soon Hee Newbold?
This dotted note is equal to three sixteenth notes.
What is a dotted eighth note?
This term describes the fast repetition of a note played at the tip of the bow.
What is tremolo?
This term means to play loud and then suddenly soft.
What is fortepiano (fp)?
This is the composer of Fantasia.
Who is Joseph Phillips?
This is the composer of Blue Rhythmico.
Who is Kirt N. Mosier?
This word refers to stressing the off-beats of a measure.
What is syncopation?
This is the musical term to describe sections playing the same music starting at different times - such as in Fantasia.
What is a round/canon?
This term is a technique that describes the bow bouncing lightly on the string.
What is spiccato?
This term is featured in the violins during the opening of Blue Rhythmico; it indicates to play two strings at the same time.
What are double stops?
This concert piece starts with a 2 eighth note pickup for a viola solo.
What is Fantasia?
In 3/4 time, these are the note values for:
1+ + +
What is Eighth Quarter Quarter Eighth?
This term describes the repetition of a short melody or rhythm in the same section during a piece of music.
What is an ostinato?
This tempo marking indicates to play the music in a slow manner - used in the opening of Mythos.
What is Adagio?
These two concert pieces end with rhythmic and melodic unison.
What are Luminescence and Mythos?
This one concert piece in 4/4 features an accented middle section.
What is Luminescence?
This is the term to describe time signatures that indicates the division of the measure is in 3 rather than 2. An example would be 6/8.
What is compound meter?
This term (notated by two slashes at the end of a measure on the top line of the staff) indicates a break or pause in the music.
What is a caesura?
This tempo marking indicates to go back to the original tempo.
What is Tempo 1 (A Tempo)?
This is the name of the blues scale that the title Blue Rhythmico alludes to.
What is d blues?
This Italian term - seen in Fantasia - translates to "more motion".
What is Piu Mosso?