Band Terms
Comprehensive Exam
Fall 2007
Music - The organization of sounds with some degree of rhythm, melody, and harmony.
Accelerando - gradually quicken tempo.
Accent - The emphasis on a beat resulting in that beat being louder or longer than another in a measure.
Accidentals – The use of Sharps or Flats in a piece.
Adagio - Quite slow
Agitato – Agitated or Restless
Allegro - Fast, cheerful.
Andantino - A tempo slightly faster than a moderate walking tempo.
Andante - Moderately slow or walking pace.
Arpeggio - Broken chord
Anacrusis – Pick up note
Arrangement - An adaptation of a composition.
Articulation – The use of devices to change the sound of the note, such as staccatos and slurs.
A Tempo - Return to the previous tempo
A tonal - no specific tonality
Ballad - a lyric piece.
Balance – The harmonious adjustment of volume and timbre between instruments or voices.
Band – An instrumental ensemble usually made up of wind and percussion instruments and no string instruments.
Bass clarinet - Woodwind instrument of the clarinet family with the lowest range.
Bar Line – A vertical line that divides the musical staff into measures or bars.
Baton – The conductor’s stick.
Beat - Regular pulsation; a basic unit of length in musical time.
Bugle - Brass instrument that evolved from the earlier military, or field, trumpet.
Cadence - The melodic or harmonic ending of a piece or the sections or phrases therein. A chord progression that "feels" like a conclusion.
Concert - A public performance of music.
Picardy 3rd - the use of a major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section in a minor key.
Degree - A note of a scale, identified by number.
Dynamics - The degrees of loudness or softness in a musical work, and their symbols.
Interval - The distance between two notes
Jazz - A style of music of Afro-American roots characterized by a strong rhythmic understructure, blue notes, and improvisation on melody and chord structure.
Note – The written symbols of music.
bpm – Beats per minute.
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