Performance directions

If you saw this on your sheet music, what would you do?

• Gradually get louder

• Gradually get quieter

• Gradually speed up

• Gradually slow down

This dynamic marking means...

• Quite quiet

• Quite loud

• Very quiet

• Very loud

Staccato means...

• To play the note with more emphasis

• To play the note smooth and long

• To play the note short and detached

• To play the note louder

Which of the following symbols means to play quietly?

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Which of the following symbols is a diminuendo?

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Which of the following musical terms means to speed up?

• Rallentando

• Cresecendo

• Accelerando

• Diminuendo

Sforzando means...

• To play suddenly faster

• To play suddenly slower

• To play suddenly quiet

• To play suddenly loud

Which of the following musical terms means to play smoothly?

• Staccato

• Legato

• Accent

• Diminuendo

If you saw the following musical term on your sheet music what would you do?

• Play the notes smoothly

• Play the notes with more force

• Pluck those notes on my instrument

• Use the bow to play those notes on my instrument

The musical term presto means...

• Slow

• Moderate

• Fast

• Very fast