Music Theory
This term describes the speed of a piece of music.
What is a tempo?
This spot on campus is where students can hammock, study, and hike when the weather is nice.
What is the Arboretum?
This brass instrument's tubing is coiled in a circular shape, making it one of the hardest instruments to tune accurately.
What is the French horn?
This year marks the founding of the Laker Marching Band.
What is 1978?
GVSU was founded in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
This symbol raises a note by a half step.
What is a sharp?
The event that runs the Sunday before every Fall Semester to introduce people to the student organizations.
What is Campus Life Night?
This brass instrument is technically the largest in the marching band, but its concert band counterpart is called a "contrabass".
What is the sousaphone?
This GVSU stadium has been the home of the LMB halftime shows for decades.
What is Lubbers Stadium?
This GVSU president served from 2001 to 2019 and oversaw many major campus expansions.
Who is Thomas J. Haas?
A sequence of notes arranged in ascending or descending order is called this.
What is a scale?
This dining location on the Allendale campus is known for its chicken quesdillas.
What is Blue Connection?
This instrument's double reed is made by hand and requires scraping, soaking, and adjusting before it can be played.
What is the oboe?
This phrase, shouted by the band before games and major performances, has become a defining part of LMB culture.
What is "Anchor Up"?
Before becoming "Grand Valley State University", the school originally opened under this name.
What is Grand Valley State College?
This term refers to how loud or soft music is played.
What are dynamics?
This building served as GVSU's main library before the Mary Idema Pew Library opened in 2013.
What is Zumberge Hall?
This woodwind instrument overblows at the octave, unlike the clarinet, which overs at the twelfth.
What is the flute?
This annual performance brings the LMB together with high school bands across Michigan for a massive, combined show.
What is Band Day?
GVSU's official school colors were chosen to represent Lake Michigan and this other natural feature.
What is the sky?
This is the relationship between two notes played together, such as major thirds or perfect fifths.
What is an interval?
This floor of the Mary Idema Pew Library has a room that is outdoors while also being inside.
What is the third floor?
This percussion instrument uses metal bars arranged like a piano keyboard and is often confused with the xylophone.
What is the glockenspiel?
This former LMB director, known for expanding the band's size and modernizing its show style, led the program through major growth in the early 2000s.
Who is Dr. Barry Martin?
GVSU's Allendale campus sits on land originally donated by this local family.
Who are the Seidmans?