PHMS Orch Fall 2025

Viking Tale

100

The syllable you're supposed to say at m. 61

HUH!

200

Name the two drums that Jason plays on

Bass drum

Brake drum (or anvil)

300

Name the composer

Chris Thomas

400

At what measure do the violas/2nds get the main melody?

37

500

There were two dynamic "drops" that we penciled in. The first one happens at what measure?

Hint: it's a little before a rehearsal mark

25

Bleak Midwinter

100

The curved line that connects two different pitches, indicating that they should be played on the same bowstroke

Slur

200

This measure was where the viola melody started, and violins started a piano tremolo

m. 21

300

Name the ARRANGER

Katie O'Hara LaBrie

400

Sempre Legato, found in measure 1 means what in English?

Always Smooth

500

Name the composer of the ORIGINAL Bleak Midwinter melody, who wrote it in 1902

Gustav Holst

Jubilee Fanfare

100

The bowings for the last two measures (4 total notes)

Down Up Up Down

200

The technique of playing two strings at once (often used by the cellos throughout this piece)

Double stops

300

Name the composer

Soon Hee Newbold

400

The measure where the pins get the melody for the first time

49

500

At this rehearsal mark, the 1st violins play all alone. Everyone else comes in one measure later.

Hint: it's in almost the very middle of the piece

68

Passoffs

100

In this passoff, you showed that you could match the frequencies of your strings to others

Tuning

200

For the composing project (part 2) you used a notation software called

Noteflight

300

How many sharps are in the key signature for the A Major Scale?

3 (F, C, and G#)

400

As part of our composing unit, you learned about a German composer named ______ _______. He had a huge ego, thought he was god, built his own opera house, and wrote the music for an opera that is very similar to Lord of the Rings. 

Also: Ride of the Valkyries

Richard Wagner

500

In the composing project, you created a melody based off of a short musical ideas called a ___

motif

Random

100

How many sharps are in the key signature for the G Major Scale

1 (F#)

200

This musical term is indicated by three dashes underneath a note

Tremolo

300

How many total performances did you have this semester?

Community meeting, Festival, Concert

3

400

Sub. or Subito is an Italian musical term that means what?

Suddenly

500

Name of Mr. Mitchell's chicken (first and last)

Willabous Wallaby