Band Final Exam
My fellow band geeks and I have alot of studying to do!
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- first 25% of practice
- warmups
- 50% of practice
- piece that is given to you to work on
- chromatic scale
- every note is played up one half-step
- enharmonic tones
- same note played the same way but written differently in the music, same fingerings
- Richard Nixons
- 37th president of the U.S.A.
- sharp #
- raises note one half-step
- moral
- difference between good or bad behavior
- tempo
- speed at which music is or ought to be played, often indicated on written compositions by a descriptive or metronomic direction to the performer
- musical sentence
- smallest period in a musical composition that can give in any sense the impression of a complete statement
- Barney Kessel
- american jazz guitarist
- 6/8 time
- three quarter rests can fit into it
- adagio
- slow and leisurely
- repertoire
- list of dramas, operas, parts, pieces, etc.
- Plato
- greek philosopher
- grace note
- colors the main note
- ballad
- any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or rmantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody
- [[ : : ]]
- repeat signs
- legato
- normal tounging
- Maya Angelou
- poet, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film directer, author, actress
- sightreading
- key signature, tricky rhythms, modulations, time signature
- sfp
- forte & marcotto & piano (f + ^ + p)
- fp
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decresendo - (b) 'flat'
- lowers note one half-step
- enharmonic tones (ex.)
- C# & D(b) 'flat'
- Truman Capote
- american writer of short stories, novels, plays and literary classics
- 25% of practice
- fun music, sightreading...
- syncopation
- the same amount of beats can be played in a different amount of notes
- caesura // \\
- a pause
- 6/8
- six beats per measure, eighth gets the beat
- fine
- finish
- Accent >
- hit harder than lagato tounging
- etude
- a musical study
- the ' . '
- half of the value of the note before
- tutti
- everybody plays
- intonation
- pitch of tones to their key or harmony
- sforzando (sfz)
- forte & marcotto (f + ^)
- the '
- breath mark
- fermata (.
- conducter holds note as long as he wants
- Stacotto .
- quick attack and release
- 'natural'
- raises or lowers note half-step
- beethoven
- pianist
- 3/2
- three beats per measure, half note gets the beat
- accidental in a measure
- note played different than as indicated in the key signature which continues through the measure
- 4/4 "Common time 'C'"
- four beats per measure, quarter note gets the beat
- poco a poco
- little by little
- Robert fripp
- guitarist
- tone
- quality or character of sound
- 8va
- up an octave
- trio
- change: modulation, dynamic, melody
- cresendo <
- play from soft to loud
- "Cut time" 2/2
- two beats per measure, half note gets the beat
- hemiola
- 3/4 feeling of two against three
- decresendo >
- play from loud to soft
- ties
- two or more notes connected that are the same note and the first note is articulated
- double flat note
- lowers note a full step
- dynamics
- ff, f, mf, p, pp
- Tenuto --
- full value
- slurs
- two or more notes connected that are different and the first note is articulated
- Thomas Beecham
- british conductor
- articulation
- utterance or enunciation
- Marcotto ^
- hit it hard
- ritardando
- slow down
- Aldous Huxley
- english writer of novels, essays, short stories, poetry and film script
- modulation
- change in key signature