Performance Terms

Question 1

Solo

Answer 1

One player

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

Quality of performers sound

Question 3

Forces

Answer 3

Instruments or voices that perform

Question 4

Double

Answer 4

2 performers play together same notes

Question 5

Double stopping

Answer 5

2 or more notes played together on a stringed instrument

Question 6

Glissando

Answer 6

Slide between adjacent notes

Question 7

Hammer on

Answer 7

Guitar technique to play fast by missing notes

Question 8

Harmonics

Answer 8

Fundamental note with less clear higher pitches called harmonics

Question 9

Improvisation

Answer 9

Composed as it is performed. Made as you go

Question 10

Melisma

Answer 10

Group of notes for one syllable of text

Question 11

Syllabic

Answer 11

One note for each syllable

Question 12

Range

Answer 12

Distance between lowest and highest notes

Question 13

Pizzicato

Answer 13

Plucked strings

Question 14

Tremolo

Answer 14

Rapid repetition of single notes

Question 15

Lyrics

Answer 15

Words