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Peripetie
1. What does Sehr rasch mean? Answer: Very
quickly.
2. What Divisi mean? Answer: When you split the
notes between two people or more of the
same instrument.
3. What are these group of notes called? Answer:
Semi-quavers.
4. What is the difference between Pizz and Arco?
Answer: Pizz is when you pluck the strings on
a string instrument and arco is when you use a
bow.
5. What is the meaning for fff? Answer:
Fortississimo – This basically means play or
sing as loud possible.
6. What does etwas ruhiger mean? Answer: A
little more quietly.
7. What are these expression markings asking
the player to do?

Crescendo Diminuendo
This means getting This means
getting
gradually louder. Gradually
quieter.

8. What does rubato mean? Answer: When you

have to double the length of the note.
9. What does the directions muted and unmated
mean? Answer: Mute – When you reduce the
volume of a musical instrument slightly or
sometimes fully. Unmuted – When you
increase the volume of a musical instrument.
For a brass instrument you would either
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squeeze inside the bell of the instrument, or

are hung or clipped to the outside of the bell.
10. What is this? Answer: Triplet.
11. Explain the difference between staccato and
legato. Answer: Staccato mean short and
detached. Legato means fluid and smoothly.
12. Apart from the treble clef and the bass clef.
Can you find out the two other clefs that are
used in peripetie and the instruments that use
them?
13. What does hervar mean?
14.Draw a group of 4 demi semi quavers.

15.What would you do if you saw the marking

rit? Answer: Slow down.
16: Can you explain and draw what a phrase
marking is? Answer: A phrase marking is often
called a slur or a tie it defines a group of notes,
within a phrase, to be played legato.

17.What does tremolo mean? Answer: Rapid

repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of
two tones, causing to sound like a tremble.
18. What does heftig mean? Answer: Violently.
19. What dies the marking crescendo mean?
Answer: Getting gradually louder.
20. What does tutti mean? All.
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21. Can you explain what the term concert pitch

refers to? Answer: refers to the pitch reference
to which a group of instruments are tuned for a
performance.