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Orchestra Final
Question | Answer |
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Sempre | Always |
Top number | Number of beats in a measure |
Common time | 4 beats per measure |
Chronically I'll patients | Music therapist |
Forte | Loud |
Sul tasto | Over the fingerboard |
Ostinato | Reccuring rhythmic figure |
Tutti | All play |
Crescendo | Gradually get louder |
Staccato | With space |
Marcato | Marked, accented notes (hammered) |
> represents | Accent |
Musicologist | Knows extensive history of music |
Legato | Smooth, long |
Cantabile | Like a singer (not song form) |
Divisi | Parts are divided |
J.S. Bach | Baroque period |
Andante | Walking speed |
Mozart | Classical period |
Arco | With the bow |
DC al fine | Go to the beginning (capo) to the end (fine) |
Da capo | Go to the beginning |
Spiccato | Bouncing bow |
Accelerando | Gradually speed up |
mp | Medium soft |
Dal segno | To the sign |
p | Soft |
Conductor | Know different clefs, transposition, steady beat |
Marked ritardando | Slowing down |
1 dotted quarter plus half note does not equal | 3/4 |
Pizzicato | Pluck the string |
Bottom number of time signature | Type of note equal to one beat |
Sfz | Heavy accent |
Morendo | Dying away |
Con sordino | With mute on |
Allegro | Fast |
Dot after a note | Increase value by half of itself |
Half steps in major scale between: | 3-4 and 7-8 |
Largo | Slow |
Ponticello | Play near the bridge |
Presto | Very fast |
Arpeggio | 1,3,5,8 |
Pickup note direction | Up bow (usually) |
Terraced dynamics | Baroque period (Forte and piano due to bad bows) |
Wagner and Puccini | Romantic Period |
First note of a scale | Tonic |
Pesante | Heavy accents on each note |
Enharmonic notes | Notes that have different names but the same sound |
Hague's favorite drink | Coffee |