Dynamics
Music Symbols
Articulation
Musicality
Wild
100

This dynamic is soft.

What is Piano?

100

This symbol tells you to play through a section of your music again.

What is Repeat Sign?

100

Articulation style where each note is played detached.

What is Staccato?

100

The part of a song that should be clearly heard across the band.

What is Melody?

100

The name of our warm up that we do on most days.

What is Framework Fundamentals?

200

This dynamic is loud.

What is Forte?

200

This symbol tells you to hold a note until the conductor cuts you off.

What is Fermata?

200

Articulation Style where a section or phrase is played smoothly and connected.

What is Legato?

200

If you are this when tuning, you would need to pull out from your tuning slide/barrel/mouthpiece.

What is Sharp?

200

The time signature that Morning Star March was in.

What is 2/4?

300

This dynamic means to gradually get softer.

What is Decrescendo?

300

This symbol is at the beginning of your music and tells you if you have any flats or sharps.

What is Key Signature?

300

Articulation style where you put more stress and length on the note, marked by a "_" above or below the note.

What is Tenuto?

300

This playing exercise is not always fun to do, but just like eating your vegetables, it is good for us.

What are Long Tones?

300

When we are playing out of time from each other, this mythical beast comes out.

What is the Rush'n Draggin'?

400

This dynamic means to suddenly get softer, marked in your music as "Sub. P".

What is Subito Piano?

400

This symbol is on a spot in your music where you should typically take a breath.

What is a Breath Mark?

400

Articulation style when a note is played more strongly.

What is Accent?

400

When tuning, if you are flat you would need to do this to your tuning slide/barrel/mouthpiece.

What is Push In?

400

This is the Winter Themed song that we performed at our Winter Concert.

What is Snow Day?

500

This dynamic is labeled SFZP in your music.

What is Sforzando Piano.

500

This symbol tells you to go back to a symbol in your music to play through a section again, and then skip to another sign to end the song.

What is D.S. Al Coda?

500

This articulation style is written as a dot above or below your note.

What is Staccato?

500

As you play, Ms. V asks you to listen for and reference 3 things called this name.

What are the Levels of Listening?

500

Music syllables that we play or say that represent notes of a scale, represented with hand signs.

What is Solfege?