band exam review
Musical Terms
Articulation
Legato - smooth and connected
Marcato - marked with emphasis
Staccato - light and separated
Dynamics
Crescendo (cresc.) - gradually get louder
Decrescendo - gradually get softer
Diminuendo - gradually get softer
Fortepiano (Fp) - loud then suddenly soft
Fortissimo (ff) - very loud
Mezzo Forte (mf) - medium loud
Mezzo Piano (mp) - medium soft
Pianissimo (pp) - very soft
Piano (p) - soft
Form
Cadence - arrival point in a phrase or in music
D.S. al Fine - Del Segno al Fine, repeat to the sign, play to fine. Final, end
Da Capo - From the top
Introduction - Beginning of a piece
Phrase - A musical idea or sentence
Solo - A moment where one person plays
Harmony / Counterpoint
Chord - Three or more notes sounding together
Enharmonic - Same pitch spelled differently
Root Position - Chord with scale degree 1 as lowest note.
Meter
Anacrusis - a pick-up note
Common Time - same as 4/4 time
Complex Meter - an asymmetric meter (uneven groupings.
Cut Time - Alla brev. (2/2) Music sounds twice as fast as it looks
Hemiola - polyrhythm of 2 against 3
Mixed Meter - Music that goes between meters often
Subdivision - smallest division of the beat
Time Signature - tells pulse value and how many for each measure.
Notation / Terminology
A tempo - First tempo of the piece
Accelerando - gradually speed up
Allegro - fast
Andante - walking pace
Dolce - sweetly
Embouchure - the shape of the face you use to play
Espressivo - expressively
Largo - slow, beats are large
Maestoso - majestic
Presto - very fast
Subito - sudden
Tacet - Silent, don't play.
Theory
Flats + sharps
Flats: BEADGCF
Sharps: FCGDAEB
How do you identify a key signature?
- For flats: Second to last flat (go into the sharps if there is 1 or 0 flats)
- For sharps: Half step up from the last sharp
Time signature
Top number: # of beats
Bottom number: which note gets the beat
Musical Symbols
Sharp - raises a half step \n Flat - lowers a half step \n double sharp - raises two half steps (or a whole step) marked as an X \n double flat - lowers two half steps (or a whole step) \n natural - cancels out any existing sharp or flat in a measure or key signature.
enharmonic tones - same note, different spelling (ex: Bb and A#)
Music History + Marching Band (The Letter B)
Music Sources
Contest Show
Movement I: Bach's 2-Part Invention in D Minor sourced from Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat
Band, and Flight of the Bumblebee, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Movement II: Hungarian Dances, Brahms and Run the World (Girls), Beyonce
Movement III: Let it Be, The Beatles
Movement IV: Only God Knows Why, The Beachboys and Ode to Joy, Beethoven
]]Overall arching storyline: a light-hearted look at all things B.]]
Spirit Show
Movement I: National Emblem Trio, Eugene Bagley
Movement II: Eye of the Panther (Tiger), Survivor
Movement III: Back in Black, AC/ DC
Final Set: East Fight Song, sourced from "The Victors" University of Michigan Fight Song
Production Staff
**Program Coordinator:**Reid Atkinson \n **Guard:**Wesley Tyree \n **Music:**Drew Shanefield (Crossmen, Cavaliers, Cadets) and Bret Kuhn (Percussion Instructor in Illinois, The Cavaliers, Phantom Regiment) \n **Drill:**Jeremy Seneca (The Cavaliers, Santa Clara Vanguard) \n Music and Visual Instruction: John Brennan, Ryan Albert, Megan Pickle, Wesley Tyree, Jeremy Seneca (The Ferocious Five)
Band Knowledge
How do you set up a row of chairs?
- Divide the room down the middle
- Odd: place the chair in the center, with an even number pushed out in both directions.
- Even: place a gap in the center, and even a number of chairs push out in both directions.
Score Order
Piccolo \n Flute \n Oboe \n Clarinet \n Bass Clarinet \n Bassoon \n Alto Saxophone \n Tenor Saxophone \n Bari Saxophone \n Trumpet \n French Horn \n Trombone \n Euphonium \n Tuba \n Mallet Percussion \n Timpani \n Snare Drum \n Bass Drum
Bonus
Albert’s dog: Simon
Pickle’s dog: Pebbles
Seneca’s favorite band: AC/DC, tool?
Animal in Brennan’s yard: ??
Last strain in sousa march: A/C
Paul McCartney songs: the beatles, yellow submarine, let it be, here comes the sun?