Theory
These indicate the volume a piece is played at.
What are dynamics?
The fundamental key of a Bb trumpet.
What is Bb?
This famous trumpet player is known for "What a Wonderful World".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This piece can be heard at somber military ceremonies.
What is Taps?
The band Oasis is famous for which song?
What is "Wonderwall"?
This cadence resolves from IV to I.
What is a Plagal cadence?
The part that is adjusted to adjust the overall pitch of the trumpet.
What is the tuning slide?
This famous trumpet player is known for his classical and jazz performances, as well as his pedagogy. One of his most famous recordings is "Carnival of Venice"
Who is Wynton Marsalis?
The symphony this trumpet solo is from.
Mahler 5
The song that won Adele an Oscar, Golden Globe and a Grammy.
What is Skyfall?
The scale degree(s) that is/are modified in the Dorian mode.
What are 3 and 7?
The part of the trumpet the mouthpiece is inserted into.
What is the lead pipe?
This Trumpet Club member is the drummer for indie rock band, Mugi for President
Who is Milo Johnson?
The Trumpet Bible
What is the Arban Complete Conservatory Method for trumpet?
The stage name of the Canadian musician born Abel Makkonen Tesfay.
What is The Weeknd?
This contrapuntal technique features a bII6 that typically resolves to a V.
What is a Neapolitan chord?
The most common size of trumpet mouthpiece.
What is 7c?
This ISU-based group attended the Rafael Brass Institute this summer.
Who are Cooking with Brass?
The first song played on MTV in 1981.
What is "Video Killed the Radio Star"
Compositional technique that utilizes every pitch class in a specific order, determined at the start of a piece.
What is a Tone Row?
The trumpet’s hornbostel-sachs number.
What is 423?
This member of the ISU faculty is also a Yamaha Performing Artist.
Who is Dr. McNamara?
Most common trumpet audition pieces
(Name at least 3)
Pictures at an Exhibition, Pines of Rome, Petruska, Leonore, Mahler 5, Mahler 3, Copland, Ravel piano concerto, Scheherazade, Charlier 2, 4, or 6
Rapper that plays Jimmy Brooks in Degrassi.
Who is Drake?