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Key Signatures & Scales
Technique
History
Do you even Italian?
100

This group wrote Viva la Vida

Who is Coldplay?

100

This key has two sharps.

What is D Major?

100

This type of bowstroke can be played effectively by bouncing the bow on the string.

What is spiccato?

100

This composer is well known for the slow intensity of their pieces due to deafness.

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

100

This notation is placed over a note. It is used to signify a note should be held out indefinitely.

What is a fermata?

200

This James Bond movie was released in 1964 and happens to be one of the movements in Bond...James Bond

What is Goldfinger?

200

This is the order of whole and half steps in a scale.

What is W-W-H-W-W-W-H?

200

This bowstroke is also known as the "hammered" stroke due to the quick press and release of the index finger.

What is martelé?

200

This composer died at the very young age of 35. They also died partially through their last composition, "Requiem in D Minor."

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

200

This word is used to describe a "sweet" sound.

What is dolce?

300

These instrument section plays the melody in the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean.

What is the cellos?

300

These are the three types of minor scales.

What is Natural, Harmonic, and Melodic?

300
This articulation requires fast, short, and separated sounding notes.

What is staccato?

300

This composer and performer is known for their virtuosic playing on violin during the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Who is Niccolò Paganini?

300

This tempo marking is used to represent "lively and fast."

What is vivace?

400

These instruments are played in Bond...James Bond

What is violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, percussion?

400

This is known as a five note scale.

What is a pentascale?

400
This area of the bow is where you would play a spiccato bowing.

What is the balance point?

400

This composer is known as "The Father of Symphony" due to writing 107 symphonies.

Who is Joseph Haydn?

400

This term is used to represent gradually increasing the tempo

What is accelerando?

500

These are two of the six movement titles in the Pirates of the Caribbean medley.

What is:

- Fog Bound

- The Medallion Calls

- To The Pirates Cave

- The Black Pearl

- One Last Shot

- He's A Pirate

500

The beginning of Bond...James Bond follows this type of scale in the second violins and viola.

What is a chromatic scale?

500

To effectively execute this bowstroke, you must drop the bow onto the string while playing multiple notes in one direction.

What is a ricochet bowing?

500

This piece is significant due to it being completely silent and fully dependent on audience "participation."

What is 4'33'' by John Cage?

500

This term is used for subtle manipulations of the rhythm in a performance. For example, the performer would purposely play their given rhythms disjunct to the beat to show expression.

What is rubato?