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Orchestra Vocabulary - 1

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the term that means to gradually get louder?
a)
Crescendo
b)
Decrescendo
c)
allegro
d)
accelerando
2.
What is the term that means to gradually get softer?
a)
Crescendo
b)
Decrescendo or diminuendo
c)
piano
d)
ritardando
3.
What is the term that means to gradually slow down?
a)
decrescendo
b)
diminuendo
c)
accelerando
d)
ritardando or rallantando
4.
What is the term that means to gradually get faster? 
a)
ritardando
b)
rallantando
c)
accelerando
d)
crescendo
5.
What does the fermata tell us to do?
a)
Gradually speed up
b)
Gradually slow down
c)
Hold the note until the conductor releases it.
d)
Play the note really short.
6.
What does the caesura tell us to do?
a)
break/ pause between phrases
b)
hold the note out
c)
slow down
d)
lift the bow
7.
What does the lift sign tell us to do? Check the BEST answer.
a)
lift the bow from tip to frog
b)
lift the bow to the correct placement for the next bowing
c)
lift the bow from frog to tip
d)
break/ pause until the conductor says to play
8.
What does D.C. al Fine mean?
a)
Go back to the beginning and play to the Fine (ending).
b)
Go back to the sign and play to the end.
c)
Go back to the beginning and play to the coda.
d)
Go back to the sign and play to the coda.
9.
What does D.S. al coda mean?
a)
Go back to the beginning and play to the fine
b)
Go back to the sign and play to the end
c)
Go back to the beginning and play to the coda
d)
 Go back to the segno (sign), play to the coda sign, jump to the coda
10.

What is this symbol?

a)

Up Bow

b)

Slurred Bow

c)

Down Bow

d)

Staccato Bow

11.

When you play an upbow, you are...

a)

Pulling your bow away from your instrument

b)

Pushing your bow into your instrument

c)

Not using your bow at all

12.

What type of notes are these

a)

Quarter notes

b)

Eighth notes

c)

Sixteenth notes

d)

Eighth note - two sixteenth notes

13.

How would you count these

a)

1 2 3 4

b)

1 + 2 +

c)

1 e + a

d)

4 3 2 1

14.

What is this curved line called?

a)

Slur

b)

Tie

c)

Smiley Face

15.

What is this curved line called?

a)

Slur

b)

Tie

c)

Smiley Face

16.

When you play a downbow, you are...

a)

Pulling your bow away from your instrument

b)

Pushing your bow into your instrument

c)

Not using your bow at all

17.

What type of notes are these

a)

Quarter notes

b)

Eighth notes

c)

Sixteenth notes

d)

Eighth note - two sixteenth notes

18.

How would you count these

a)

1 (e) + a

b)

1 e + (a)

c)

1 e + a

d)

1 2 3 4

19.

What does the key signature tell you?

a)

How many beats are in the measure

b)

How many sharps and flats are in the piece

c)

Who wrote the piece

d)

What time school is over

20.

What is this called?

a)

Time signature

b)

Key signature

c)

How many people should play the viola

d)

A fraction

21.

What instrument usually reads music using this clef (treble clef)?

a)

Violin

b)

Viola

c)

Cello

d)

Bass

e)

Piano

22.

What instrument usually reads music using this clef (Alto Clef)?

a)

Violin

b)

Viola

c)

Cello

d)

Bass

e)

Piano

23.

What instrument usually reads music using this clef (bass clef)?

a)

Violin

b)

Viola

c)

Cello

d)

Bass

e)

Piano