Elements of Music
Loud of soft of the music
Dynamics
Speed of the music
Tempo
Give the 4 families of the orchestra.
Strings, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion
What is a solo concerto?
One soloist and the orchestra
What does 'tutti' mean?
Everyone
Major minor
Tonality
Put them in the order of slowest to fasters:
Allegro, Presto, Adagio, Moderato
Adagio, Moderato, Allegro, Presto
What is the highest in the brass family?
Trumpet
Ritornello - episode - ritornello - episode - ritornello...
What form/structure do you call a piece with 2 different sections (AB)?
Binary form
What form/structure do you call a piece with 3 sections (ABA)?
Ternary form
Give 2 examples of a 'single reed' instruments.
Clarinet, Saxophone
Give a name of a Baroque composer.
Give a name of a Baroque composer.
Bach, Vivaldi, Purcell, Scarlatti, Handel, Telemann, Corelli
What effect are you creating when you play on the offbeats?
Syncopation
What does 'pizzicato' mean and which instrument family uses it?
Plucking the strings; Strings
Give 2 examples of a 'double reed' instruments.
What are the 2 instruments that play the basso continuo?
Haprsichord and cello
Define 'secular' and 'sacred'.
secular means non-religious; sacred means religious
Give 3 different types of texture
Monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic
Give 2 types of articulations
Legato and staccato
Give an example of a pitched percussion instrument.
Timpani/kettle drums
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Piano
Give 3 features of Baroque music.
Use of harpsichord
Use of ornamentation
Terraced dynamics
String-dominated orchestra
Use of sequence
Use of imitation
Sequence is a pattern that is repeated a pitch higher or lower.
Imitation is where a melody in one part is later repeated in another part.