The Evolution of Western Music
A melting pot of blues, ragtime, dixieland, marching bands, African and Caribbean music that originated in New Orleans in the first two decades of the 1900's
What is Jazz
The following needs to always be kept on one's stand at all times during all rehearsals
What is a pencil
Ye Banks and Braes O Bonnie Doon is a folk song that originated from what country.
What is Scotland
The Major Key that has four flats is called
What is Ab Major
The two methods of practicing rhythm are rhythm syllables and__________
What is clapping and counting
Music of the Renaissance originated in what country?
What is Italy
Students generally don't do enough of this outside of class.
Listening to a wider variety of music.
In Red River Valley, the Red River starts from what country and ends in what country.
What is the United States into Canada. (flows from North Dakota , Minnesota into Manitoba and empties into Lake Winnipeg)
The distance between two notes is called an
What is an interval
The two tools on one's phone that every musician needs to use are what?
What is a tuner and a metronome.
An alternative rock genre and subculture that emerged in the middle 1980's in Seattle and became popular worldwide in the 1990's.
What is grunge
Students are responsible for their instrument, pencil and what which is used in every class?
Their band folder.
Robert Buckley got explicit permission from the following people to collaborate and share their music through the composition, Eagle Song.
Who is the Squamish First Nation
In rhythmic study a dot after a note value does what?
What is adds half the value of the proceeding note.
The building blocks and vocabulary of melody is largely acquired by the practicing of what?
What are scales.
The name of the opera that the Senior Band heard at the Southern Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary last year.
What is Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
This is located, usually in toward the back cover of any beginning or intermediate band method book.
A fingering , percussion rudiments or slide position chart
The following composer is the only female composer that the Grade 9 Band performed this year.
Who is Carol Brittin Chambers
A musical term that describes a smooth flowing manner without breaks between notes
What is legato
With the exception of flute and percussion, all musicians work on the following to improve tone and technique on their instrument. Hint -it involves your face.
Flat, long chin and firm corners
Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven are part of a period of music history called what?
What is the classical period
The names of the two main concert venues in Downtown Vancouver that are not used for sports.
What is the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and the Orpheum.
Bell Carol Rock combines a famous Christmas Carol and a tune by the popular 1960's to 1980's Rock Band Chicago. Name the carol and the Rock tune.
What is Ukrainian Bell Carol and 25 or 6 to 4.
The bottom number of a time signature tells what?
What rhythmic note value gets the beat.
Aside from scales, all musicians need to practice the following two things as a warm-up, especially brass players
What are long tones and lip slurs.