Pitch
This quality of music describes the highness and lowness of a sound.
What is Pitch?
A very broad genre that was present in our composition tasks.
What is Rock?
This musical term describes the unique tone color, texture, or quality of a sound—explaining why a trumpet sounds different from a piano even when playing the same pitch.
What is timbre?
An instrument that makes its sound via vibration of strings.
What is a string instrument?
Things that we write in music to denote a certain pitch.
What are Notes?
This feature of music creates a flowing, cohesive tune.
What is a Melody?
A defiant, rebellious, anto-establishment subculture of music that emerged in the '90s.
What is Punk Rock?
Name one word you could use to describe how a heavy electric guitar sounds compared to a quiet acoustic guitar.
What is loud / rough / heavy / distorted / noisy? (Accept any sensible adjective)
The number of families of instruments.
What is four?
The way in which musicians know how fast to play the music.
What is Tempo?
Chords belong to this subelement of music.
What is Harmony?
True or False: Rock music is more recent than Jazz music.
What is True?
True or False: A piano and a drum kit have the exact same sound quality.
What is false?
The family of instrument that the piano belongs to.
What is percussion?
True/False: Beat and Rhythm are the same thing.
What is False?
The names delegated to quality of a chord's sound (Happy or Sad).
What is Major and/or Minor?
The name of the guy at the front of an orchestra who leads the ensemble.
What is a conductor?
You want a song to sound super quiet, light, and gentle, choose beteween the following: a flute, a loud brass trumpet, a soft grand piano.
What is a flute/soft grand piano?
An instrument that makes its sound via the vibration of a reed or via split air over a soundhole.
What is woodwind?
The symbols at the beginning of music that determine the key of the piece.
What is Key Signature?
The leftward movement on a piano from any starting point.
What is a lowering pitch?
The genre of music that Nirvana are most well-known for.
What is Grunge?
What is the common name for the rough, crunchy sound effect used on rock electric guitars?
What is distortion/ overdrive?
A percussion instrument that presents the timbral qualities of grand, mellow, and relatively warm
What is a grand piano?
A famous composer from the classical period that wrote the piece: "Für Elise"
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?