VOCAB
The steady pulse of all music.
What is the BEAT?
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What is WGOITP?
The author of the Unaccompanied Cellos Suites.
Whos is JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH?
Germany's national anthem came from the second movement of this quartet.
What is EMPEROR QUARTET?
The color shirt Mr. Rodriguez was wearing on Friday.
What is WHITE?
The skill of creating new musical ideas spontaneously in the moment.
What is IMPROVISE?
Turn off the lights, close the windows, sit in the red square.
What is CODE RED?
Vivaldi's nickname while he was a priest.
What is THE RED PRIEST?
An extended solo in the final movement before the ending of the concerto.
What is CADENZA?
A piece of music in 3 movements with a series of solos by a specific instrument.
What is CONCERTO?
A game where the question is phrased as a statement and the answer is phrased as a question.
What is JEOPARDY?
The amount of concertos Vivaldi wrote during his lifetime.
What is 500?
The concerto form consisting of interchanging sections of main theme, solo, main theme, solo, etc.
What is RITORNELLO FORM?
The small, stupid white cocoon capsules on your ears that you use to play music when you think Mr. Rodriguez doesn't notice.
What is AIR PODS?
The Return.
What is RITORNELLO?
Two pages of rhythm exercises practiced during the first 5 minutes of class.
What is NOTE READING LESSON?
The pianist known for his interpretations of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Who is GLENN GOULD?
A famous series of concertos based off sonnet poems about the seasons.
What is THE FOUR SEASONS?
A musical ancestor of the piano played with a keyboard mechanism that plucks the strings.
What is HARPSICHORD?
Spin the wheel, choose a deck, faster, choose the question, let's guess the answer.
What is ICEBREAKER?
The author of the Emperor Quartet.
Who is JOSEPH HAYDN?
The four instruments that make up a string quartet.
What is VIOLIN, VIOLIN, CELLO, AND VIOLA.
The usual exit I recommend when you say something utterly...profoundly...unbearable.
What is THE WINDOW PLEASE?