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What is Tempo?

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The speed of the steady beat in music.

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What is pitch?

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The highness or lowness of a note

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What is the melody?

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

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What is texture in music?

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How many instruments or voices are sounding at a time.

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What is legato?

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Very smooth and connected notes either played or sang.

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What is staccato?

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Playing notes short and detached.

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What are dynamic markings?

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

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PPP

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Very, very, soft

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pp

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very soft

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p

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soft

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mp

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medium soft

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mf

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medium loud

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f

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loud

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ff

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very loud

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fff

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very, very loud

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Decrescendo means?

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Get softer

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Crescendo means?

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Get louder

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Solo

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One person singing or playing

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Duet

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Two people singing or playing together

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Trio

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Three people singing or playing together

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Quartet

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Four people singing or playing together

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Quintet

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Five people singing or playing together

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Who is John Philip Sousa

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

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Who was Pytor Illych Tchaikovsky?

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The Nutcracker Ballet. He was a Russian composer.

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Who is Aaron Copland?

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An american composer who wrote Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.

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What song did Frances Scott Key write the words to?

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The Star Spangled Banner

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Who was Louis Armstrong?

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A famous Jazz Trumpet player and singer.

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

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He was deaf.

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What is an interesting fact about W. A. Mozart’s childhood?

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

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During what war was “Yankee Doodle” popular?

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The Revolutionary War

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What is a repeat sign?

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

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What is a Ballet?

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

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What is an Opera?

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

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What country is Reggae Music found?

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Jamaica

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What are steel drums?

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

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What is a time signature?

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

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

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How many beats in each measure.

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

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Four beats

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

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Two beats

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

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One beat

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

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1/2 beat

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What is the difference between a composer and a conductor?

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

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What are the major instrument families?

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Strings, woodwinds, percussion, and brass

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What family is the flute in?

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Woodwinds

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What family are drums in?

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Percussion

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What family is the trumpet in?

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Brass

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What family is a violin in?

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Strings

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What are Spirituals

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

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What is a syncopated rhythm?

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Rhythms played on the off beat.

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

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

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What language are musical terms written in?

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Italian

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