Composition
A single line of music in one voice, often featuring peaks and valleys, and is most likely singable.
What is a melody?
The characteristic feature of the instrument is its large tuning slide.
What is the trombone/bass trombone?
This instrument struggles with piano in the low register, and becomes very shrill in the high register.
What is the flute/piccolo?
A musical form represented with letters: A, A', A'', A'''...
What is "Theme and Variations?"
The featured instrument in "you can't play 6 octaves in 9 bars."
What is the trumpet?
The process of putting two voices together.
What is counterpoint? What is polyphony? What is melody and counter-melody?
The highest brass voice.
What is the trumpet/piccolo trumpet?
The lower auxiliary of the flute.
What is the alto flute?
Playing an instrument in a non-standard way.
What is an extended technique?
This instrument works well in a "choir" formation. (We looked at a variety of orchestral excerpts featuring this compositional technique)
What is the trombone?
An element of composition that can establish style, tempo, and energy, without necessarily relying on pitches.
What is rhythm?
The brass counter-part to the bassoon, this instrument is another "clown" in the orchestra.
What is the tuba?
The "blender" of the woodwind family.
What is the saxophone?
Spelled as: A, C#, E, G
What is an "A7" chord? What is an A dominant seventh chord?
The duck in "Peter and the Wolf"
What is the oboe?
A standard, recognizable construction of a composition.
What is form?
Determines the "darkness" or "brightness" of a brass instrument's tone.
What is bore? What is conical or cylindrical bore?
A woodwind indicative of "shady behavior" on-screen.
What is the bass clarinet or bassoon?
The part of a song or piece that gets "stuck in your head." Specifically, material that "reels you in."
What is "the hook?"
Who is J.S. Bach?
Can be anything. A concept that can yield a full piece of music with development.
What is an idea/fragment?
Besides the tuba, this brass instrument has the largest amount of tubing.
What is the horn?
"Frankensteined" together over-time, this woodwind features multiple "micro-register" that give its full range a quirky, unique tone.
What is the bassoon/contra-bassoon?
A made-up scale derived by the composer for their specific purposes.
What is a synthetic scale?
This instrument is known for its mocking, frenetic tone in the fifth movement of Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastique."
What is the Eb Clarinet?