It's a Scale
It has one sharp...F-sharp
What is G major
Quarter Quarter Eighth Eighth Quarter
What is 4 beats?
gradually slow down
What is ritardando
This composer gradually went deaf over his life time
Ludwig van Beethoven
It has 3 flats...Bb, Eb, and Ab
What is Eb Major Scale
Eighth, sixteenth, sixteenth, eighth, sixteenth, sixteenth, quarter, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth
What is six beats.
Allegro
Fast (happily)
This composer was a child prodigy writing symphonies, operas, and piano sonatas successful; but died young at the age of 35
It has 2 flats...Bb and Eb
sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth, eighth, eighth
what is two beats
staccato
short, stop bow on the string
This composer has 13 children and worked in churches most of his life, cellists both love and hate him.
Johann Sebastian Bach
It has no sharps and no flats....it's au naturale
What is C major
dotted eighth-sixteenth, dotted quarter, eighth, whole
what is seven beats
continue in the same way, especially articulation
What is simile.
This composer wrote many concerti grossi including Le Quattro Stragioni
Antonio Vivaldi
What is the chromatic scale
sixteenth, sixteenth, eighth, half, eight, eighth, eighth
What is 4.5
go back to the beginning and play to proceeding double bar.
da capo al fine
This composer, known as the Father of the String Quartet, inspired Mozart and encouraged his composition of string quartets.
Franz Josef Haydn