Composer Calculations
Sound Science
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Local Figures
100

35+21 or the age Beethoven was when he died.

What is 56?

100

Sounds that are made by instruments like the Piccolo are described as this.

What is High?

100

The meaning of forte.

What is Loud?

100
The first known instrument.

What is the human voice?

100

The home of Flamenco.

What is Spain?

100

The person who spent most of their time in the dunk tank.

Who is Mr. Burr?

200

14-9 or the age Mozart was when he started composing music.

What is 5?

200

Tubas and String Basses make sounds like this.

What are Low sounds?

200
The meaning of crescendo.

What is to grow in volume?

200

1887: The year this local classical music group was founded.

What is the Detroit Symphony Orchestra?

200

The language many opera are sung in.

What is Italian?

200

The person who organized the Variety Show.

Who is Mrs. O?

300

5+6+9 or the number of children that Bach had.

What is 20?

300

The word that describes how sounds is made.

What is vibration?

300

The Italian word for very quiet.

What is pianissimo?
300

1880: The year the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance was founded at this Double A school.

What is the University of Michigan?

300

The home of Samba and Bossa Nova.

What is Brazil?
300

The last person to get slimed this fall.

Who is Mr. Vogt?

400

The amount of beats that three eight notes take up.

What is 1 1/2?

400
The result of sound bouncing off of hard objects.

What is an echo?

400

The term that means to get quieter in volume.

What is Decrescendo?

400

1870: The year that the marching band at this Greek mascot school started.

What is Michigan State University?

400

A style of music from Cuba, and the name of a tomato-based dip.

What is Salsa?

400

The person who ran March is Reading Month.

Who is Mrs. Dodds?

500

22 x 4, or the number of musician in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

What is 88?

500

The three ways percussion instruments make sound.

What is hitting, shaking, and scraping?

500

The name of an instrument and a dynamic.

What is Piano?

500

1700: The year that this percussion/string instrument was noted to be invented.

What is the Piano?

500

A style of music from Ghana that is spelled like the word for a baby sheep.

What is Ewe?

500

The person Wyatt G. portrayed during the Wax Museum.

Who is George Washington Carver?

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