Week of 11/10

Week of 11/10: Define or explain all terms and techniques required in Abracadabra and Horkstow Grange. This includes phrasing markings, articulations, tempos, expressive texts, etc. Explain how you will realize these musical goals in your playing.

Phrasing markings: Slurs/ notes that you play together without break in between

Dynamics: p - piano/soft, mf - mezzo forte/moderately loud, mp - mezzo piano/moderately soft, f - forte/loud, ff - fortissimo/very loud, pp - pianissimo/very soft

Articulations: Staccato - short detached notes, Tenuto - hold the note for the full length of the measure, Accent - bring out the front of the note and slowly let it die off, Marcato - like accents but just the whole thing, breath mark - take a short breath there, triplelets - play 3 notes in the note space that it gives you, crescendo - slowly get louder in the time given, decrescendo - slowly get softer in the time given

Tempos: quarter note = c.138 which is a medium tempo, rit. which is to slowly slow down along with the director, quarter note =c.84 a pretty slow tempo, tempo 1 is to go back to the first tempo, fermata is to hold the note until the director tells you to stop, accel. poco a poco to m.150 to to speed up until measure 150 and hold that tempo, quarter note = c.168 is a pretty fast tempo, slower means to slow down a bit. slowly flowingly means to slur the thing more and make it sound more connected

Time signatures: 4/4 there are 4 notes in the measure and a quarter note gets a beat, 5/4 there are 5 notes in a measure and a quarter note gets a beat, 2/4 there are 2 notes in a measure and a quarter note gets a beat, 3/4 there are 3 notes in a measure and a quarter note gets a beat

To reach these muscial goals while playing, i need to pay attention to the markings and the meanings of them in my music and play them, and i also need to pay attention to the conductor when they change the tempos or the dynamics of the pieces