Grade 6 Band Pretest

The dynamic fortissimo (ff) means to play your instrument?

• Very soft
• Loud
• Very Loud
• Medium Soft

When playing your instrument loud you are playing a what dynamic?

• Forte
• Mezzo forte
• Piano
• Mezzo piano

The word mezzo in mf or mp means?

• Loud
• Soft
• Medium
• Very loud

When you play your instrument at the dynamic of piano (p) you are playing very softly?

• True
• False

The dynamic of pianissimo (pp) means to play?

• Very loud
• Very soft
• Soft
• Loud

A crescendo means to gradually?

• Get softer
• Get shorter
• Repeat
• Get louder

The symbol below means to gradually get softer and is called a?

• Crescendo
• Decrescendo
• Fermata
• Double bar

The term staccato means to?

• Repeat
• Watch the conductor for a cut off
• Play as short as possible without changing the rhythm
• Play a whole note

The note below has a legato marking which means to play?

• Very smoothly like a chorale
• Very short and choppy
• Very loud
• Very soft

What does a tie do?

• To play softly
• Connects two notes of the same pitch
• To play as short as possible
• To play loudly