This instrument family uses valves, pistons, or slides to change the pitches on the instruments.
What is the brass family?
100
This German composer of "Carmina Burana" wrote methods for music education; the mallet instruments in your elementary classroom were named for him.
Who is Orff?
100
This note is half as long as a 16th note.
What is a 32nd note?
100
J.S. Bach wrote many pieces for organ including this.
What is Toccata and Fugue in D minor?
100
Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music for this Broadway show that included characters such as Mister Mistoffelees, Rum Tum Tugger, and Old Deuteronomy.
What is Cats?
200
Occasionally a piano is added to this section of a symphony orchestra.
What is the percussion section?
200
Hector Berlioz, composer of "Symphony Fantastique" and other large works, actually went to Paris to study this field.
What is medicine?
200
Of Andante, Allegro, Moderato, and Vivace, this is the slowest tempo.
What is Andante?
200
Gioachino Rossini wrote many famous operas, including this overture.
What is William Tell?
200
This kind of animal sings this song from The Little Mermaid.
What is a crab?
300
This is the number of keys on a piano added to the number of valves on a trumpet.
What is 91?
300
This composer's Eighth Symphony, first performed in 1910, is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand" because over 1000 performers participated in the premier?
Who is Antonin Dvorak?
300
When added to a note or rest, it adds one-half the value of that note or rest.
What is a dot?
300
Pytor Tchaikovsky wrote many famous orchestra pieces, including this.
What is the 1812 Overture?
300
This section of the orchestra represents Peter in "Peter and the Wolf."
What are the strings?
400
Nicola Amati taught Antonio Stradivari and Joseph Guarneri to make these instruments?
What is the violin/string instruments?
400
This is the number of movements (planets) Gustav Holst wrote in his orchestra work "The Planets" in 1914.
What is 7?
400
This note gets three counts in 6/8.
What is a dotted quarter note?
400
Richard Wagner wrote music for huge orchestras, including for operas like this piece.
What is Ride of the Valkyries?
400
Robert Lucas de Pearsall composed "Duetto buffo di due gatti" ("Humorous for two cats) in 1825. What is the only word in the duet, sung over and over in different tones?
What is "meow"?
500
The "Rite of Spring", composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1913, has a famous opening played by this solo instrument.
What is the bassoon?
500
This German composer is probably the first to use a baton to conduct; prior to this, often a performer would act as the conductor or the conductor would bang a large staff on the floor.
Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
500
These are unexpected accented notes between regular beats.
What is syncopation?
500
Gustav Holst wrote music for orchestras, bands, and chamber ensembles, including this movement from The Planets.
What is Mars?
500
This instrument is featured as The Elephant in Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals.