Instrument Families
Instruments with strings that are plucked, bowed, or strummed.
What is the strings family?
What musical genre typically includes an electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and a singer?
This type of person has a career in music involving using a baton to control how fast, slow, loud, or soft an orchestra is playing.
What is a conductor?
Ms. Pearl plays a large, wooden string instrument. What instrument does she play?
What is the cello?
This Latino composer wrote the music for Hamilton, Moana, Encanto, and In the Heights.
Who is Lin Manuel Miranda?
Instruments made out of a golden-colored metal called brass.
What is the brass family?
What genre of music was Michael Jackson famous for defining through his songs, vocal performance, and dancing?
What is pop music?
Because Selena Quintanilla wrote the music and lyrics for her famous songs, she is considered a... what?
Which school in Beloit does Ms. Pearl also teach in?
What is: Fruzen Intermediate School?
This rapper recently broke the record for winning the most Grammys (music awards) out of any other rapper in history. He also broke the record for most Grammys won by a rapper in 1 night.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
Instruments you blow into that have a reed and originally were made out of wood.
What is the Woodwinds family?
This genre of music sometimes involves the musicians' opinions on politics or the environment.
What is folk music?
If you were to go to a doctor who used musical instruments to improve your mental and physical health, what type of job would that person have?
What is a music therapist?
How long has Ms. Pearl been teaching in Beloit?
How old was Billie Eilish when she released her first song, Ocean Eyes?
What is 13 years old?
Instruments that you scrape, hit, or shake to make sound.
What is the percussion family?
This genre of music originated in black communities and helped develop genres like jazz, rock and roll, and hip hop.
What is Rhythm and Blues/R&B?
What is an instrument repair person?
Name one other instrument that Ms. Pearl has played and had photo evidence of during the first week of music.
Possible answers: trumpet, violin, bassoon, voice, and drums.
How much does the most expensive violin in the world cost: 23 million dollars, 11 million dollars, or only 1 million?
What is 23 million dollars?
The family that the saxophone belongs to is called what?
In jazz music, what is it called when someone plays a part of the song by themselves, making it up as they go along?
What is a solo?
Which popular Disney movie did Elton John and Bernie Taupin collaborate on the song and lyrics for?
Which University of Wisconsin school did Ms. Pearl graduate from? (The mascot is the Warhawk)
What is UW-Whitewater?
How many strings does a harp have: 40, 50, or 47?
What is 47?