Repertoire
Rhythms
Terms
About the Teacher
Extras
100
We played a song about this holiday for the winter concert.
What is Hanukkah?
100
A dotted half note receives this many beats in common time.
What are 3 beats?
100
The music gets louder when this happens.
What is a crescendo?
100
The make and model of the car Mr. Becker drives.
What is a Toyota Camry?
100
Mr. Becker plays this instrument primarily.
What is percussion?
200
This piece began in 6/8 time?
What is Superheroes R Us?
200
A half note receives this many beats in cut time.
What is 1 beat?
200
The music slows down when you see this written on the page.
What is a ritardando? or rit. for short...
200
The favorite sports team of Mr. Becker.
What is the St. Louis Cardinals?
200
The number of notes in a major scale.
What are 8 notes?
300
Name the lyrical piece we performed this year.
What is The Bonsai Tree?
300
A dotted quarter note receives this many beats.
What are 1 and a half beats?
300
When you see this at the end of the music, you jump back to the sign and then take the Coda when specified.
What is a D.S. al Coda?
300
The city Mr. Becker is from.
What is St. Louis?
300
This marking means "play the note with more emphasis."
What is an accent?
400
Syncopation was an important rhythmic element in this piece.
What is Lassus Trombone?
400
Name 1 of the 2 ways you can count 6/8 time?
What is "1 & a 2 & a" or "1 2 3 4 5 6"?
400
This arc connecting notes of different pitches together is known as this.
What is a slur?
400
The language Mr. Becker can speak a little bit of.
What is Chinese?
400
This instrument is basically a giant tuning slide.
What is the trombone?
500
The high school students played the harder version of this song for the winter concert and we played the middle school level version.
What is Serengeti Dreams?
500
A dotted 8th note contains this many 16th notes.
What are 3 sixteenth notes?
500
Notes with this marking over them are played twice as short as they would normally be played.
What is a staccato?
500
Name one country Mr. Becker has been to besides the United States.
What is (pick one) Japan, Namibia (Africa), Germany, France, Italy, England, or South Africa?
500
CHALLENGE! This instrument has four ranges: chalumeau, throat tones, clarion, and altissimo registers.
What is the clarinet?