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Question 1

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What is Tempo?

Answer 1

The speed of the steady beat in music.

Question 2

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What is pitch?

Answer 2

The highness or lowness of a note

Question 3

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What is the melody?

Answer 3

The part of a song that you hum or sing when you think of a song.

Question 4

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What is texture in music?

Answer 4

How many instruments or voices are sounding at a time.

Question 5

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What is legato?

Answer 5

Very smooth and connected notes either played or sang.

Question 6

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What is staccato?

Answer 6

Playing notes short and detached.

Question 7

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What are dynamic markings?

Answer 7

Markings which tell you how loud or soft the music should be played.

Question 8

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PPP

Answer 8

Very, very, soft

Question 9

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pp

Answer 9

very soft

Question 10

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p

Answer 10

soft

Question 11

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mp

Answer 11

medium soft

Question 12

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mf

Answer 12

medium loud

Question 13

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f

Answer 13

loud

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ff

Answer 14

very loud

Question 15

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fff

Answer 15

very, very loud

Question 16

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Decrescendo means?

Answer 16

Get softer

Question 17

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Crescendo means?

Answer 17

Get louder

Question 18

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Solo

Answer 18

One person singing or playing

Question 19

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Duet

Answer 19

Two people singing or playing together

Question 20

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Trio

Answer 20

Three people singing or playing together

Question 21

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Quartet

Answer 21

Four people singing or playing together

Question 22

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Quintet

Answer 22

Five people singing or playing together

Question 23

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Who is John Philip Sousa

Answer 23

An American composer who led the Marine Band for many years created the Sousaphone and was known as the March King.

Question 24

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Who was Pytor Illych Tchaikovsky?

Answer 24

The Nutcracker Ballet. He was a Russian composer.

Question 25

# SAE Review Who is Aaron Copland?

Answer 25

An american composer who wrote Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.

Question 26

# SAE Review What song did Frances Scott Key write the words to?

Answer 26

The Star Spangled Banner

Question 27

# SAE Review Who was Louis Armstrong?

Answer 27

A famous Jazz Trumpet player and singer.

Question 28

# SAE Review What did the famous composer Beethoven have to overcome when writing his last symphonies?

Answer 28

He was deaf.

Question 29

# SAE Review What is an interesting fact about W. A. Mozart's childhood?

Answer 29

He was a child prodigy and played for kings, queens and other royalty by age 6.

Question 30

# SAE Review During what war was "Yankee Doodle" popular?

Answer 30

The Revolutionary War

Question 31

# SAE Review What is a repeat sign?

Answer 31

Two lines and two dots which tells you to go back and repeat a section of music.

Question 32

# SAE Review What is a Ballet?

Answer 32

A story told on stage with dancing. No talking on stage.

Question 33

# SAE Review What is an Opera?

Answer 33

A story told on stage with singing. No spoken lines.

Question 34

# SAE Review What country is Reggae Music found?

Answer 34

Jamaica

Question 35

# SAE Review What are steel drums?

Answer 35

A musical instrument made originally from oil drums in the country of Trinidad.

Question 36

# SAE Review What is a time signature?

Answer 36

4/4: Two numbers on top of one another found at the beginning of a piece of music.

Question 37

# SAE Review What does the top number of a time signature tell you?

Answer 37

How many beats in each measure.

Question 38

# SAE Review In 4/4 time how many beats does a whole note or whole rest get?

Answer 38

Four beats

Question 39

# SAE Review In 4/4 time how many beats does a half note or half rest get?

Answer 39

Two beats

Question 40

# SAE Review In 4/4 time how many beats does a quarter note or quarter rest get?

Answer 40

One beat

Question 41

# SAE Review In 4/4 time how many beats does an eighth note or eighth rest get?

Answer 41

1/2 beat

Question 42

# SAE Review What is the difference between a composer and a conductor?

Answer 42

A composer writes the music and a conductor leads the instruments to play it.

Question 43

# SAE Review What are the major instrument families?

Answer 43

Strings, woodwinds, percussion, and brass

Question 44

# SAE Review What family is the flute in?

Answer 44

Woodwinds

Question 45

# SAE Review What family are drums in?

Answer 45

Percussion

Question 46

# SAE Review What family is the trumpet in?

Answer 46

Brass

Question 47

# SAE Review What family is a violin in?

Answer 47

Strings

Question 48

# SAE Review What are Spirituals

Answer 48

Slaves wrote them. They were religious songs they sang on plantations.

Question 49

# SAE Review What is a syncopated rhythm?

Answer 49

Rhythms played on the off beat.

Question 50

# SAE Review What does Del Segno al fine tell you to do in music?

Answer 50

Go back to the sign and then sing until you come to the fine and stop.

Question 51

# SAE Review What language are musical terms written in?

Answer 51

Italian