Instruments
At the Opera
People in Music
Reading Music
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100
The ukulele has this many strings.
What is 4?
100
Generally speaking, this type of person will have a higher-pitched singing voice.
What are women?
100
This trumpet player and composer studied music at California Baptist University and now teaches music in Washington.
Who is Mr. Patterson?
100
The musical staff is made up of 5 of these, with 4 spaces in between.
What are lines?
100
This is a person who writes music.
What is a composer?
200
This brass instrument has a slide instead of valves, allowing it to play true glissandos.
What is the trombone?
200
This voice range is the lowest, and is well-suited to playing powerful characters like kings or villains in opera.
What is bass?
200
Adolphe Sax is perhaps most famous for developing this instrument, though it would take a long time to really catch on.
What is the saxophone?
200
In treble clef, this word can be used to help remember the notes of the spaces on the staff.
What is FACE?
200
This instrument family is characterized by producing sound by buzzing into a mouthpiece.
What are brass instruments?
300
The tabla is a pair of drums used in Hindustani music, and comes from this country.
What is India?
300
Many early operas were based off of stories from this mythology.
What is Greek?
300
Guido d'Arezzo, one of the very first music teachers, is famous for inventing this system.
What is the staff and/or solfege?
300
In treble clef, the note B will be found on which line?
What is the middle/third line?
300
The Toreador Aria from Georges Bizet's Carmen was famously used in this horror video game franchise.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
400
Woodwind instruments such as the clarinet and saxophone use this thin piece of wood inside the mouthpiece to produce sound.
What is a reed?
400
Operas are made up of recitative, in which dialogue is sung, and these, complicated solos that show off a singer's skills.
What are arias?
400
Yoko Shimomura is a composer best known for writing the soundtracks for these.
What are video games?
400
This note, as seen below, can be found on both the bottom line and top space.
What is E?
400
Percussion instruments produce sound by being struck or scraped with one of these, such as a drumstick or hand.
What is a beater?
500
Electric guitarists will sometimes use these devices to change how their guitar sounds.
What are effect pedals?
500
A coloratura is a variant of this voice range, that can be even more flexible in hitting high and low notes.
What is soprano?
500
During his life, this guitar player was the highest paid performer in the world.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
500
In this time signature, the 3 represents the number of this.
What is beats per measure?
500
Benjamin Britten is a composer best known for his piece A Young Person's Guide to this.
What is The Orchestra?