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Scales and Keys
Dynamics and Misc.
Tempo Markings
Articulations
Instruments
100
The sharps and flats at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to played
What is a Key Signature?
100
An ensemble with four musicians
What is a quartet?
100
A medium-fast tempo
What is Allegro?
100
Smooth and connected notes
What is legato?
100
Xylophone, marimba and glockenspiel
What are keyboard percussion instruments?
200
The distance between between two notes or pitches
What is an interval?
200
A ryhthmic pattern where the accents are moved OFF of the beat
What is Syncopation?
200
Another tempo marking which tells you to speed up
What is Accelerando?
200
An emphasized note, so that it is louder and longer than another
What is an accented note?
200
The four families of instruments
What is woodwind, brass, percussion, and strings?
300
Symbals such as a flat, sharp, or natural used to change the pitch of the note
What is an accidental?
300
A rhythmic group or metrical unit that contains a fixed number of beats, divided on the music staff by barlines
What is a Time Signature?
300
Not a dynamic marking, but tells the player to slow down
What is rit.?
300
A dot over a note that meands to play with space and seperation
What is staccato?
300
The brass family
What is french horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba?
400
Notes that sounds the same but are written differently
What is enharmonic?
400
The word which describes how our mouth is used to play an instrument
What is an embouchure?
400
Largo, Allegro, and Vivace are markings the composer uses this to tell the musician how fast or slow to play
What is tempo?
400
Connect the notes without tonguing
What is a slur?
400
Clarinet, Saxophone, and flute
What are woodwind instruments?
500
The scale built on half-steps only
What is a chromatic scale?
500
Playing your instrument with the correct pitch
What is intonation?
500
Strick Tempo is temporarily abandoned and the beat is hard to find
What is Rubato?
500
To play the slurs and tongued notes as written
What is and articulation?
500
The family of instruments is not commonly found in a school band
What is the string family?