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Orchestra Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |