Euphonium | | _______ percussion instruments can play notes that you can sing. |
BigBand | | The largest ensemble which has all four instrument families and mostly performs classical music. |
JazzCombo | | An articulation that means to perform a note smooth and connected. |
Cues | | A group of performers that perform together. |
Woodwinds | | The family of instruments that includes keyboard instruments and drums. |
KettleDrum | | (TWO WORDS) What a snare drum is called when the metal "snares" are turned off. |
MezzoForte | | (TWO WORDS) The group that provides the beat in a jazz band. Instruments typically include the piano, bass, drums, and guitar. |
Ensemble | | The _______ is moved to change pitch on a trombone. |
StringEnsemble | | String instruments draw a ______ across the strings to make them vibrate. |
Auxilary | | An articulation that means to perform a note separate or detached. |
Staccato | | Additional percussion instruments. |
Lower | | A large "classical" (mostly) ensemble that has woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. |
Bow | | The Italian musical term for "medium loud". |
ChamberEnsemble | | (TWO WORDS) A small "jazz" ensemble with a rhythm section and a "wind" soloist. |
RhythmSection | | The musical word for speed. |
Pitched | | The family of instruments that includes violin, viola, cello and bass. |
Conductor | | (TWO WORDS) The most common type of chamber ensemble. |
Harp | | The musical term for volume (clue- Listening Maps). |
Violins | | The distance between the lowest and highest note an instrument or singer can play. |
NewYorkPhilharmonic | | (TWO WORDS) A medium sized "jazz" ensemble with a section of trumpets, trombones, and saxophones. |
Bassoon | | (TWO WORDS) A small "classical" ensemble. |
Keys | | King Louis XIV's orchestra conductor who stabbed himself in the foot while conducting and later died of his injury. |
Baton | | An ensemble that includes sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. |
Classical | | The family of instruments that includes trumpet, french horn, trombone, euphonium and tuba. |
Choir | | The person that guides an ensemble through face and hand motions. |
StringQuartet | | _______ percussion instruments cannot play notes that you can sing. |
Orchestra | | (TWO WORDS) An ensemble like the orchestra, but there are no brass or woodwind instruments. |
Jazz | | This instrument has 47 strings. |
JazzBand | | The "stick" a conductor uses to guide an ensemble. |
Strings | | The main genre of music that includes swing and the blues styles of music. |
Saxophone | | (THREE WORDS) The oldest American symphony orchestra, founded in 1842. |
Band | | A conductor uses his/her left hand to give _____ so a performer doesn't forget to play his/her part. |
Valves | | The only woodwind instrument that is made of brass but is called a woodwind because it has a reed. |
Percussion | | A low brass instrument that is usually not found in an orchestra. |
Bells | | As the size of the instrument becomes longer its sound becomes _________. |
Range | | The main genre of music that includes styles of music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. |
Lully | | The word orchestra came from ancient ______ around 2000 years ago, describing the place in front of the stage where the musicians would play and the actors would dance and sing. |
Tempo | | (TWO WORDS) Another name for a jazz band. |
PopularMusic | | (TWO WORDS) The other name for a timpani. |
Greece | | The buttons on a woodwind instrument. |
Brass | | (TWO WORDS) The main genre of music that includes music that you hear on the radio and includes rock, country and rap. |
Unpitched | | The lowest sounding double reed instrument. |
Slide | | A shorter word for a glockenspiel. |
TomTom | | The largest section of an orchestra includes many of these. |
Legato | | The family of instruments that includes flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon. |
Dynamics | | The buttons on a brass instrument. |