String Instruments
This instrument is played by the majority of string players, and has the highest sound of the string instruments.
What is the violin?
This is the name for a song with origins in a specific culture.
What is a folk song?
This is the name for the 5 lines and 4 spaces music is written on.
What is the staff?
This composer wrote a piano piece based on "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
Who is Mozart?
This note value is twice the value of a half note, being worth 4 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note?
This instrument has a medium sound in the orchestra, and in elementary school there are usually few of them.
What is the viola?
This hand is used to change what note is played when you pluck or bow a string.
What is the left hand?
This is the name for a symbol that tells what notes are on what lines and spaces.
What is a clef?
This composer wrote the melody for "Ode to Joy."
Who is Beethoven?
This note is half the value of a whole note - 2 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a half note?
This instrument has a low sound in the orchestra and is played differently than the violin and viola.
What is the cello?
This is the country Mozart lived in.
What is Austria?
These small lines extend the staff to reach notes higher or lower than the ones on it.
What are leger lines?
This is the name of the melody used in "New World Symphony Theme."
What is "Goin' Home?"
This note is the one indicated by the bottom number in 4/4 time and is half the value of a half note.
What is a quarter note?
This instrument has the lowest sound in the orchestra, and to play it you need to either stand or use a tall stool.
What is the bass?
This is the name for playing with the bow.
What is arco?
These are the 2 sharps in the key signature of D Major.
What are F# and C#?
This piece features "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," and "Ode to Joy."
What is "Classical Medley?"
This rhythm features two equal sounds in one beat, and the notes are beamed together.
What is an eighth note pair?
This instrument is used to accompany an orchestra and can play all of the parts in a piece at once.
What is the piano?
Bulgaria and Ukraine can be referred to by this ethnic descriptor, related to the name Czechoslovakia.
What is Slavic?
This is the only sharp in the key signature of G Major.
What is F#?
This is the composer for the "New World Symphony Theme."
Who is Dvorak?
This rhythm features four equal sounds spread across two beats.
What are 4 eighth notes beamed together?