Band Review

​Band Review

9/9/2022

​You will NOT know everything. This is a quiz to assess what you know and what you do not know.

​Do Your Best! Wrong answers are OK

Multiple Choice

Whose responsibility is it to make up a missed lesson?

• My Parents

• Teachers

• Mine

Multiple Choice

What are the 4 things you are graded on in Band?

• Composition, Connecting Performing, Lessons

• Creating, Connecting, Responding, Performing

• Performing, Playing, Reading Music, Rhythm

Open Ended

What day and period is your lesson?

Multiple Choice

Which number in the time signature tells you how many beats are in a measure?

• Top
• Bottom

Multiple Choice

How many counts does this rest get?

• 2
• 4
• 1
• 6

Multiple Choice

A _________________ is someone who writes music for a living.

• lyricist

• harpist

• composer

Multiple Choice

The _____________ is consistent throughout a piece of music.

• staging

• steady beat

• trumpet section

Multiple Choice

I'm in high school band and I don't need to practice anymore.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

You will earn participation points in class for doing the following well...

• listening during class and not talking to my neighbor

• Putting my folder/music in the folio rack at the end of class.

• Always trying to do my best

• Being on time to class

• All options are correct

Multiple Choice

What does decrescendo mean?

• To gradually descend a mountain

• To gradually get softer

• To gradually get louder

• To gradually get higher

Multiple Choice

a dot next to a note adds _____ of the notes original value

• 25%

• 75%

• 50%

• 100%

Multiple Choice

What term means the speed of the beat?

• Rhythm

• Adagio

• Largo

• Tempo

Multiple Choice

Why is cut time used compared to 4/4?

• Because there is a different number of notes.

• Because the tempo would make it hard to count in 4/4.

• Because there are only 2 quarter notes in a bar.

Multiple Choice

What are the counts for this rhythm?

• 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

• 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8

• 1 e & a 2 e & a

Multiple Choice

How do we shift from one key to another within the same piece?

• Modulation

• A dramatic pause

• Crescendo

• Speed up the tempo

Multiple Choice

Staccato means

• Smooth and connected

• Short and detached

• Stagnant

• Sharp and annoying

Multiple Choice

Music created and performed spontaneously or “in-the-moment" is...

• improvisation

• crazy

• dangerous

• unnatural

Multiple Choice

2 flats

• Bb minor

• C minor

• G minor

• B Major

Multiple Choice

No Flats or Sharps

• C minor

• A minor

• A Major

• Gb minor

Multiple Choice

3 Sharps

• F# Major

• A minor

• F minor

• A Major

Multiple Choice

The order of flats is as follows:

• BEADGFC

• BEADGCF

• FCBDAEB

• BAEDGCF

Multiple Choice

The name of this major key signature is...

• Bb Major

• E Major

• Ab Major

• Eb Major

Multiple Choice

A repeating pattern is known as

• A sequence

• Harmony

• An inversion

• An ostinato

Multiple Choice

The name of this major key signature is...

• Bb Major

• Db Major

• Ab Major

• Eb Major

Multiple Choice

The order of sharps is as follows:

• FCGDEAB

• FCGDAEB

• BEADGCF

• BEADGFC

Multiple Choice

What is the name of this major key signature?

• F# Major

• G Major

• D Major

• F Major

Multiple Choice

How would we count this rhythm?

• 1 2 3 4 +

• 1 + 2 + a

• 1 e + a 2

• 1 2 3 4 a

Multiple Choice

A melody is

• A series of notes played after each other

• All of the above

• A rhythm

• Several notes played together

Multiple Choice

What is the name of this major key signature?

• G Major

• E Major

• A Major

• D Major

Poll

How excited are you for band this year?

• Super Excited

• Average

• Not at all excited