Tone Up
The relative highness or lowness of the sound we hear.
What is pitch?
Gradually getting softer.
What is decrescendo?
The highest classification of women voices.
What is a soprano?
Instrument that produces the highest sound in the strings family. Sits directly to the left of the symphony conductor and is divided into two sections.
What are the 1st & 2nd violins?
Number of octaves an untrained voice can usually command.
What is 1 to 1 and a 1/2?
The frequency is either doubled or halved.
What is an octave?
Gradually getting louder.
What is crescendo?
The highest voice classification of male voices.
What is a tenor?
The highest instrument of the brass family.
What is the trumpet?
Compared to its predecessor, the harpsichord, this instrument has felt covered hammers that strike the strings to produce sound.
What is the piano?
The distance between two tones.
What is an interval?
Represented by the following symbols respectively:
pp, p, mp
What is pianissimo, piano, and mezzo piano?
The word that proceeds soprano, identifying a middle range female voice.
What is mezzo or mezzo soprano?
Consists of instruments that you hit, shake, or rub to produce sound.
What is the percussion family?
Two instruments related to the brass family tuba, but a smaller version made for marching/concert bands.
What is a baritone and euphonium?
Western civilization octave first included 7 tones that could be played on the white keys of the piano and later these were added.
What are the 5 tones played by the black keys of the piano?
Represented by the following symbols respectively:
mf, f, ff
What is mezzo forte, forte, and fortissimo?
The male voice classification in the middle range.
What is a baritone?
Most woodwind instruments (besides the flute, piccolo, and recorder) use a single-reed to produce sound, but these instruments do not.
What is the oboe, English horn, and bassoon/contrabassoon?
What is pizzicato?
Frequency needed to create a tone an octave higher than 440.
What is timbre?
Effects the singer's range.
What are physical makeup and training?
So hard to tune that the entire orchestra usually tunes their instruments around its 'A'.
What is an oboe?
Mechanisms used to divert air through various lengths of tubing in brass instruments.
What are values?