Insane Instruments
Reading the Staff
Vocab Grab
Cool Cultures
Ridiculous Rhythms
Wild Card
Recorder
Rodeo
Rodeo
100
This instrument:
What is, the triangle!
100
A silly sentence that helps us read the notes on the treble staff.
What is Every Good Boy Does Fine OR Elephants Get Big Dirty Feet.
100
The steady flow and pulse of the music. It often comes after the word heart.
What is the beat!
100
We learned about Native American music this year. Name the VERY local Native American tribe in Plymouth.
What is the Wampanoag Tribe!
100
This is our easiest note. It is a one beat sound.
What is TA (or quarter note)!
100
A type of music that uses strong beats and fast-moving words. This type of music uses fast rhythms, rhyming and is usually done over a beat or backing track.
What is rap!
100
The type of air we blow into the recorder. 2 things!
What is warm and gentle/soft!
200
The metal instrument we use to play our songs. It has different keys with different notes. We use mallets to play it.
What is the xylophone!
200
The silly word that helps us read those spaces on the staff. Give me some SPACE!
What is FACE!
200
The person who makes, writes and creates the music.
What is a composer!
200
What is the month called where we celebrate Black music, art, traditions and culture. One composer we learned about during this time was Stevie Wonder. We also talked about MLK and the song 'We Shall Overcome.'
What is Black History Month!
200
This rhythm has 4 sounds on ONE beat. It's our fastest rhythm that we have learned.
What is Tikka Tikka (sixteenth notes)!
200
This note take up 4 beats all by itself. It is one, long 4-beat sound.
What is the whole note or (Ta-a-a-a)!
200
The first note we learned on recorder. It used our thumb and first finger.
What is note B!
300
This instrument also has keys, but they are white and black and not made of metal. This instrument can be electronic OR be big and have strings.
What is a piano!
300
This object that helps us read music.
What is the treble staff!
300
Staccato either means the music is smooth, separated, fast or slow. Name which one.
What is separated!
300
The name of the month where we celebrate Spanish speaking cultures.
What is Hispanic Heritage month?
300
This rhythm is one, longer, two beat sound. Don't forget, the entire sound takes up TWO beats.
What is the half note (or TA-a)!
300
This composer is possibly the most famous classical musician of all time, he was able to compose music by the age of 4 and performed for kings and queens by the age of 6. Some of his most well known pieces of music are: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and The Turkish March. He was born in Austria and dies while writing his Requiem.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
300
The hand that plays on top of the recorder.
What is the left hand!
400
This instrument:
What is the tambourine!
400
Name all the letters in the musical alphabet. Hint - it starts at A, but does NOT go all the way to Z.
ABCDEFG
400
It's not the beat; a combination of short and long sounds that fit inside beats.
What is rhythm!
400
Hanukkah is celebrated by Jewish people. During the holiday, the eat specials foods, receive gifts and play with these items, which is also a song! (I have a little...)
What is dreidel!
400
If I have 4 rests in a row, how many beats do I have?
What is 4 beats!
400
Not the instruments or harmony; it's the main tune of a song. You always sing along with it and it's the part of a song you recognize the most.
What is the melody!
400
The name of the first song we learned on recorder that sound like this: Mi - re - do.
What is Hot Cross Buns!
500
A flute like instrument played with the left-hand on top and it is held in front of you.
What is recorder!
500
Say whether E is a space note, line note or both.
What is both!
500
The meaning of the word piano; not the instrument.
What is soft/quiet!
500
Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer, is very famous for creating the music from which holiday ballet? Music pieces include: Russian Dance, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Dance of the Toy Soldiers. The soldiers must fight the evil rat king.
What is the Nutcracker!
500
Music math! How many beats is a half note plus a half note? (Ta-a + Ta-a)
What is 4 beats!
500
We saw the Plymouth Philharmonic orchestra at what building in Plymouth?
What is memorial Hall?
500
The lowest note we learned to play on recorder.
What is note low D!
600
Long, hollow tubes in different colors and lengths that make a musical scale from ABCDEFG. You can hit them on different surfaces.
What are boomwhackers!
600
The word these notes on the treble staff spell. It is a food.
What is cabbage!
600
The real meaning of the comma above the staff in our recorder music. Hint- sometimes we need to take breaks.
What is a breath mark!
600
We learned a song for Hispanic Heritage month at the beginning of the year. In Spanish we sang, "Vamos a la mar tum tum?" Name what we said in English.
What is let's go the ocean!
600
Add the beats Tikka Tikka+Tikka Tikka+Tikka Tikka+Tikka Tikka = ?
What is 4 beats! Even though it is 4 sounds, each tikka tikka is only one beat.
600
The piece we listened to on our field trip from a ballet that represented life, death and renewal. Mother nature brings the world back to life. Hint, we watched a movie about this music in class.
Bonus point- can you name the composer?
What is The Firebird? By Igor Stravinsky.
600
Name the part of the recorder we blow into.
What is the mouthpiece!