General Vocab
Expressive Elements
Notation
Style/Genre, Form & Meter
Instruments & Performing Groups
Star Spangled Awesome!
100
A person who directs the performance of an orchestra, chorus or other musical ensemble
What is a Conductor
100

The notation that tells you to play loud.

What is Forte'?

100
What is the musical alphabet?
What is A B C D E F G?
100
A song that is sung to put a baby to sleep
What is a lullaby?
100
A performance by one person
What is a solo?
100

The name of the fort we were defending from the British in 1814

What is Fort McHenry?

200
The words to a song
What are lyrics
200

The notation that tells you to play soft.

What is piano?

200
The clef that shows where the G is on the staff. It also is the clef used for the right hand of the piano. It is also the clef used to show notes women sing.
What is the Treble clef?
200
A musical genre with a steady tempo that a band might play in a parade.
What is a march?
200
An organized group of singers
What is a chorus or choir?
200

The city in the US that was on the verge of being captured by the British during the War of 1812

What is Baltimore?

300
Two or more performers playing or singing the same part at the same time.
What is unison
300

The notation that tells you to gradually get louder.

What is crescendo?

300
A note that is held for 2 counts.
What is a half note?
300
A song in which the voices enter one after the other, repeating exactly the same melody.
What is a canon or round?
300
An ensemble that does not include violin, viola or cellos.
What is a band?
300

To be brave, heroic

What is Gallantly?

400
The way in which the body is held when standing, sitting and walking
What is Posture
400

The volume of a musical composition

What are dynamics?

400
A note that is held for 4 counts.
What is a whole note?
400

Two or more songs that can be sung at the same time to produce harmony.

What are partner songs?

400
The guitar, mandolin, violin, viola, cello and stand up bass are part of this musical family
What are strings?
400

Congress made the Star Spangled Banner our National Anthem in what year?

1931

500

A repeated musical pattern

What is an Ostinato?

500

The notation that tells you to play very loud.

What is Fortissimo?

500

The note that is held for 1 count.

What is a quarter note?

500

In a song, the section of the music where the lyrics change but the melody stays the same

What is a Verse?

500

What two families of instruments does a piano belong to?

Percussion and strings

500

The Star Spangled Banner is written in what octave range?

1 1/2 octaves

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