Ashland Symphony Orchestra

Instrument Families

100

What are the four instrument families?

Brass, Percussion, Woodwind, and Strings

200

Which instrument is a woodwind instrument but made out of brass?

The Saxophone

300

Which is the highest pitched instrument in the string family?

Violin

400

Which instrument has characteristics of more than one family?

Piano 

500

Which woodwind instrument require two reeds to play?

Oboe or Bassoon

Orchestra

100

True or False: An orchestra is not a group of musicians playing together under the direction of a conductor.

False

200

This section of the orchestra typically has the most players in it.

string family

300

True or False: The musicians perform music specially composed for specific instruments in an orchestral performance.

True

400

This family of the orchestra may not have the most players, but it has, by far, the most instruments.

the percussion family

500

What is the lowest sounding instrument in a orchestra?

Double Bass

More orchestra

100

Who leads the Orchestra?

The conductor

200

True or false: the orchestra can have anywhere between 15 and 100 musicians playing at a time.

TRUE

300

This section is located in the back of the orchestra, furthest from the conductor.

Percussion

400

This section sits in the front of the orchestra.

Strings

500

Name two types of Orchestra.

What is Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Orchestra?

On the Podium

100

This narrow, white stick is used by the conductor to help the musicians "see" the beat and stay together.

baton

200

True or false: Michael Repper, the conductor of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra, won a Grammy Award last year.

True! (He conducted the New York Youth Symphony, who won Best Orchestral Recording against some of the best professional musicians in the world!)

300

Meaning "master" or "teacher" in Italian, this is the special title given to the orchestra's conductor.

maestro

400

The Concert Master is the first chair player of what instrument?

violin

500

A conductor's music that has every instrument's part written down on it is called this.

score

Even More Orchestra

100

True or False: An orchestra consists of woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

False (don't forget the strings!)

200

What is the highest pitched brass instrument?

What is trumpet?

300

What do you call a person who writes music?

a composer

400

This string instrument is size just right for the player to sit with the instrument between their knees.

cello

500

What is a major difference between a concert band and an orchestra?

An Orchestra has all the families while the concert band has only woodwinds, brass, and percussion.