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Band Vocabulary

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What means to Emphasize a note?

a)

Accent

b)

Allegro

c)

Crescendo

d)

Accidental

2.

What is the Symbol that alters the pitch of a note until the end of the measure?

a)

Allegro

b)

Dynamics

c)

Accidental

d)

Common Time

3.

What means Fast tempo?

a)

Sharp

b)

Mezzo Forte

c)

Common Time

d)

Allegro

4.

What are Types of attacks used to play a note or group of notes?

a)

Articulation

b)

Tie

c)

Whole Step

d)

Pick-Up

5.

What Divides the staff into measures?

a)

Common Time

b)

Crescendo

c)

Bar Line

d)

Phrase

6.

A Bass Clef. . . ?

a)

Gradually gets louder

b)

Locates the F on the fourth line

c)

Cancels a flat or sharp

d)

Lower the pitch of a note 1 half step

7.

Common Time means. . . ?

a)

Means the same as 4/4.

b)

A piece of music featuring two different parts played or sung together.

c)

Go back to the beginning of the piece and play or sing until the Fine.

d)

A fast tempo.

8.

A Crescendo means to. . . ?

a)

Gradually slow the tempo.

b)

Play or sing the music again.

c)

Gradually gets softer.

d)

Gradually gets louder.

9.

What means to Go back to the beginning of the piece and play or sing until the Fine?

a)

Da Capo al Fine (D.C. al Fine)

b)

Embouchure

c)

Repeat Sign

d)

Whole Step

10.

What means to Gradually softer?

a)

Decrescendo

b)

Double Bar Line

c)

Mezzo Forte

d)

Moderato

11.

What means Some players play or sing the top notes while others play or sing the bottom notes?

a)

Duet

b)

Divisi

c)

Double Bar Line

d)

Harmony

12.

What is a Piece of music featuring two different parts played or sung together?

a)

Solo

b)

Harmony

c)

1st and 2nd Endings

d)

Duet

13.

What is the softness or Loudness of a piece of music?

a)

Measure

b)

Crescendo

c)

Dynamics

d)

Half Step

14.

An Embouchure is. . . ?

a)

Mouth formation used to play an instrument.

b)

Music that comes before the first full measure of a piece of music.

c)

A song in which the same part is played or sung by two or more groups starting at different times.

d)

softness or Loudness of a piece of music.

15.

A Fermata. . . ?

a)

Marks the end of the music.

b)

A song in which the same part is played or sung by two or more groups starting at different times.

c)

Holds a note or rest longer than its usual value.

d)

Smallest interval used in western music.

16.

A Double Bar Line . . . ?

a)

Marks the end of the music.

b)

Lowers the pitch of a note 1 half step.

c)

First seven letters of the alphabet; these note names are assigned to the lines and spaces of the staff.

d)

The area between two bar lines.

17.

The 1st and 2nd Endings . . . ?

a)

Lower the pitch of a note 1 half step.

b)

Play or sing the first ending the first time through, repeat, skip the first ending, and play or sing the 2nd ending.

c)

Two or more notes played at the same time.

d)

Cancels a flat or sharp.

18.

A Flat. . . ?

a)

Lowers the pitch of a note 1 half step.

b)

Gradually slows the tempo.

c)

Raises the pitch of a note one half step.

d)

Shortens the note; separated or detached.

19.

What means Loud?

a)

Forte

b)

Mezzo Forte

c)

Moderato

d)

Yelling

20.

A Half Step means. . . ?

a)

Smallest interval used in western music.

b)

Distance between two pitches.

c)

Sharps or flats placed after a clef.

d)

First seven letters of the alphabet; these note names are assigned to the lines and spaces of the staff.

21.

What is Two or more notes played at the same time?

a)

Key Signature

b)

Harmony

c)

Measure

d)

Musical Alphabet

22.

What is the Distance between two pitches?

a)

Phrase

b)

Piano

c)

Musical Alphabet

d)

Interval

23.

What are Sharps or flats placed after a clef?

a)

Ritardando

b)

Key Signature

c)

Round

d)

Slur

24.

What is a Short line used in notes above or below the staff?

a)

Measure

b)

Ledger Line

c)

Natural

d)

Sight Reading

25.

A Measure is. . . ?

a)

Top number tells you the number of counts / beats per measure the bottom number tells you the type of note that gets one count/beat.

b)

Marking that connects notes to the same pitch to make one longer note.

c)

The area between two bar lines.

d)

Medium or loud.

26.

Mezzo Forte is. . . ?

a)

Medium or loud.

b)

Moderate or medium.

c)

Soft.

d)

Loud.

27.

Moderato is. . . ?

a)

Moderate or medium.

b)

Medium or loud.

c)

Soft.

d)

Cancels a flat or sharp.

28.

The First seven letters of the alphabet; these note names are assigned to the lines and spaces of the staff is the. . . ?

a)

Staccato

b)

Sight Reading

c)

Phrase

d)

Musical Alphabet

29.

What Cancels a flat or sharp. . . ?

a)

Time Signature

b)

Natural

c)

Repeat Sign

d)

Syncopation

30.

What is a Musical sentence, often 4 or 8 measures long?

a)

Phrase

b)

Pick-Up

c)

Tutti

d)

Theme

31.

Piano means. . . ?

a)

Soft

b)

Loud

c)

Medium

d)

Mezzo

32.

A Pick-Up means. . . ?

a)

Everyone plays or sings.

b)

Rhythmic effect that places emphasis on a weak beat.

c)

Music that comes before the first full measure of a piece of music.

d)

A song in which the same part is played or sung by two or more groups starting at different times.

33.

Repeat Sign means to. . . ?

a)

Gradually slow the tempo.

b)

Play or sing the music again.

c)

Shorten the note; separated or detached.

d)

Raise the pitch of a note one half step

34.

Ritardando means to. . . ?

a)

Shorten the note; separated or detached.

b)

Gradually messes up the tempo.

c)

Raise the pitch of a note one half step.

d)

Gradually slow the tempo.

35.

What means A song in which the same part is played or sung by two or more groups starting at different times?

a)

Sharp

b)

Round

c)

Treble Clef

d)

Syncopation

36.

What means to Raise the pitch of a note one half step?

a)

Sharp

b)

Slur

c)

Tie

d)

Tutti

37.

What means Playing or singing a piece of music for the first time?

a)

Phrase

b)

Staccato

c)

Sight Reading

d)

Soli

38.

Articulation that connects notes of different pitches that indicates a very smooth sound is?

a)

Ritardando

b)

Whole Step

c)

Tie

d)

Slur

39.

A Soli is. . . ?

a)

A small group or section plays or sings.

b)

Only one person plays or sings.

c)

Marking that connects notes to the same pitch to make one longer note.

d)

Everyone plays or sings.

40.

A Solo is. . . ?

a)

The line it circles on the staff is called “G”.

b)

A small group or section plays or sings.

c)

Only one person plays or sings.

d)

5 lines and 4 spaces.

41.

A Staccato means to. . . ?

a)

Go back to the beginning of the piece and play or sing until the Fine.

b)

Shorten the note; separated or detached.

c)

Play or sing the music again.

d)

Play or sing the first ending the first time through, repeat, skip the first ending, and play or sing the 2nd ending.

42.

What is 5 lines and 4 spaces?

a)

Double Bar Line

b)

Common Time

c)

Tempo

d)

Staff

43.

What is a Rhythmic effect that places emphasis on a weak beat?

a)

Whole Step

b)

Syncopation

c)

Time Signature

d)

Treble Clef

44.

What is The speed of a piece of music?

a)

Tempo

b)

Staccato

c)

Tutti

d)

Ledger Line

45.

What is a Melody within a piece of music?

a)

Soli

b)

Theme

c)

Tie

d)

Time Signature

46.

What is the Marking that connects notes to the same pitch to make one longer note?

a)

Slur

b)

Tempo

c)

Tie

d)

Treble Clef

47.

A Time Signature means. . . ?

a)

Top number tells you the number of counts / beats per measure the bottom number tells you the type of note that gets one count/beat.

b)

The line it circles on the staff is called “G”.

c)

Everyone plays or sing.

d)

Interval that consists of two half steps.

48.

A Treble Clef is. . . ?

a)

The line it circles on the staff is called “G”.

b)

Everyone plays or sings.

c)

Interval that consists of two half steps.

d)

A song in which the same part is played or sung by two or more groups starting at different times.

49.

Everyone plays or sings is?

a)

Tutti

b)

Duet

c)

Solo

d)

Whole Step

50.

An Interval that consists of two half steps is?

a)

Natural

b)

Round

c)

Whole Step

d)

Half Step