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What is a quarter note?
This note value represents one beat of sound.
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What is EGBDF?
The line notes of the treble staff ordered from bottom line to top line.
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Who is Stravinsky?
The composer who used atonal harmony to create "The Rite of Spring" in 1913.
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What is B?
The note on the recorder that is produced by covering the thumb hole and first finger hole of the left hand.
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What is tonal harmony?
Harmony that is pleasing to the ear.
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What are eighth notes?
Note values resulting from splitting a quarter note into two equal pieces.
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What is FACE?
The space notes of the treble staff ordered from bottom space to top space.
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Who is Vivaldi?
The composer who used musical imagery to paint a picture with sounds in "The Four Seasons."
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What is D?
The note on the recorder that is produced by covering only the second finger hole of the left hand.
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What is atonal harmony?
Harmony that is displeasing to the ear.
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What are sixteenth notes?
Note values resulting from splitting a quarter note into four equal pieces, or splitting an eighth note into two equal pieces.
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What is DO?
The home note in a piece of music that denotes the end of a musical idea.
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What is Easy Money?
The first song on Billy Joel's album "An Innocent Man" about a man who would rather gamble than work hard to earn his living.
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What is the woodwind family?
The family of instruments to which the recorder belongs.
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What is imitative counterpoint?
Two identical melodies overlapping and starting at different times during a piece of music. A round is the most common example.
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What is an ostinato?
A rhythm that repeats.
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What is staccato?
An articulation marking meaning "short and detached notes."
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Who is Scott Joplin?
He composed ragtime hits such as "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag."
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What is ready position?
The gesture a conductor makes by extending his arms and baton straight out at the recorder ensemble to ensure the musicians are ready to play.
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What is non-imitative counterpoint?
Two contrasting melodies playing at the same time. Although different, these melodies fit the same harmonic chord structure. Partner songs are an example.
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What is three beats?
The duration of a dotted half note.
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What is crescendo?
A dynamics marking meaning "gradually get louder and louder."
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Who is Koji Kondo?
He composed the original Super Mario Bros. theme.
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What is B-flat?
The note on the recorder that is produced by covering the thumb hole, first and third finger holes of the left hand, and the first finger hole of the right hand.
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What is dissonant?
The word used to describe atonally harmonic sound.
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