Band Vocabulary & Symbol Quiz

What is the correct posture for playing an instrument?

• feet flat, back off the chair, shoulders back, chin up

• Like a pretzel

• hunched over [like quasimodo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame]

• Euphonium

What is an embouchure?

• a weird French word

• The muscles around your mouth used to play a brass or woodwind instrument

• baguette

• melodies in an ascending direction

What do we mean when we say, "play with a characteristic tone?"

• the best possible sound you can make on your instrument

• a calamity of clarinet carnage

• a torrent of trumpet tantrums

• a flock of furious flute sounds

What is rhythm?

• patterns of notes and rests

• soft and loud dynamics

• melody and harmony

• pitch and intonation

Which definition best describes the word articulation?

• the highness or lowness of a note or tone.

• the pulse of the music.

• the pattern of short and ling sounds that fit with a steady beat.

• how the tongue and the air [or mallets] begin a note.

Which definition best describes pitch?

• the highness or lowness of a note or tone.

• the pulse of the music.

• the pattern of short and long sounds that fit with a steady beat.

• how the tongue and the air [or mallets] begin a note.

What do we mean when we say, "keep a steady beat?"

• the underlying pulse of the music

• loud and soft dynamics

• pitch and intonation

• melody and harmony

What is this symbol?

• Key Signature

• Accidental

• Time Signature

• Dynamic

What does this time signature mean?

• 4 beats per measure / Half note receives the beat

• 2 beats per measure / Quarter note receives the beat

• This is a fraction and reduces to 1/2

• 2 beats per measure / Half note receives the beat

Which time signature below has three beats per measure?

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