Instruments
What is strings?
Recurrent pulse that divides the music equally.
What is the Beat?
The highness or lowness of sound.
What is Pitch?
A combination of 3 or more tones that are played simultaneously.
What is a chord?
What is forte?
The largest brass instrument in an orchestra.
What is a tuba?
The speed of music.
What is Tempo?
Italian word for smooth and connected.
What is Legato?
The main chord or tone of a piece.
What is the tonic or tonic triad?
The organization of sound in time.
What is music?
Three instruments in the woodwind family.
What is flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, bassoon?
The 1st or stressed beat of a measure.
What is the Downbeat?
A complete musical thought.
What is a Phrase?
A tone combination that is unstable.
What is dissonance?
The smallest interval traditionally used in Western Music.
What is a half step?
Piano, Bass, Guitar, and Drums are usually used in a jazz setting.
What is the Rhythm Section?
What is a measure?
The distance between 2 pitches.
What is an Interval?
A series of chords.
What is a progression?
A device used to keep time/the beat.
What is a Metronome?
The six voice types.
What is Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritione, Bass? (May say Countertenor)
The unexpected accent.
What is Syncopation?
The quality of sound (i.e. bright or dark).
What is Timbre?
A combination of sharp or flat signs at the beginning of a piece, following the clef.
What is the key signature?
Logic, ProTools, and Garageband are examples of this.
What is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)?