Rhythm & Beat
The rhythm matches the ______.
What are words?
The speed of the music.
What is tempo?
The instruments in this family are made of wood, or at least they were at one time.
This composer wrote his first piece at the age of 5 and performed with his sister across Europe as a child.
Who is Mozart?
The highest of the 4 voice types.
What is a soprano?
This is written at the beginning of a piece of music to indicate how many beats each measure gets.
What is a time signature?
The volume of the music.
What are dynamics?
The 3 S's that make an instrument part of the percussion family.
What is Shake, Scrape and Strike?
Who is Liszt?
Neither singers nor the orchestra use these in an opera performance.
What are microphones?
A beat in a rhythm pattern that is accented or played more strongly than the others.
What is the strong beat?
How the different parts of the song are organized.
What is form?
The biggest member of the brass family.
What is a tuba?
He was completely deaf by the time he was 40 years old, yet he still managed to write some of his most famous works including his final symphonies.
Who is Beethoven?
The conductor is often referred to as this.
What is the maestro?
A musical rhythm where each measure is divided into 3 beats.
What is triple meter?
High and low notes in music.
What is pitch?
This string instrument has an endpin and is set between the players legs.
What is the cello?
This composer mastered the craft of "text painting"; like a piano melody that mimics the up and down motion of a spindle, or a harmony underneath that sounds like the hooves of a horse running on a trail.
Who is Schubert?
The very first thing an opera must have is a ____ .
In duple meter, the rhythm is divided into ______ beats per measure.
What is 2?
What is timbre?
The smallest member of the woodwind family.
What is the piccolo?
This Baroque composer wrote the first opera ever to be written in English.
Who is Purcell?
The area underneath the stage where the instruments play from.
What is an orchestra pit?