KHS Band Semester 1 Final Exam 2023

Crescendo

• A musical term
• Something Italian

• To gradually get louder

• Cannot determine the correct answer

Decrescendo

• To get softer gradually

• Diminuendo
• Accelerando
• To get smaller gradually

Slur

• Perform a group of 2 or more notes

• Perform a group of 2 or more notes legato

• Perform a group of notes

• Smear notes together

Legato

• Playing in a smooth, flowing manner without breaks between notes

• Playing in a detached manner between notes

• Playing very long notes

• Playing very short notes

Fermata

• A pause of unspecified length on a note or rest

• A pause in the music

• A major break in time in the music

Staccato

• Very long notes

• Very detached notes

• Very connected notes

• Very low notes

Resolution

• To change musical style in a piece of music

• To play better

• To play very legato through an entire piece of music

• To resolve a chord to a pleasant sounding resting point

Articulation

• Symbols that affect the transition or continuity on a single / multiple notes

• Symbols that indicate how long notes should be played

• Symbols that indicate the style in which notes should be played

Accidentals

• Symbols placed beside a note to indicate a change in pitch

• Symbols which indicate the style of articulation

• Symbols which indicate the length of notes

• Symbols which indicate the attack of a note

Time signature

• Two numbers which indicate how much of a piece of music should be played

• Two numbers which indicate the number of counts for every note

• Two numbers which indicate how many measures there are in a piece of music

• Two numbers which indicate how many beats are in a measure and which note value counts as one beat