Composers
This Golden Globe, Emmy, Oscar, and Grammy award winner, who holds the record for Oscar nominations by any living person (52), has composed timeless scores for movie franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and Jaws.
Who is John Williams?
This major key is the only one without sharps or flats.
What is C Major?
Mr. McGee has taught at Sharon High School for this many years.
What is 27 years?
Name the percussion instrument that famously has three sides.
What is the triangle?
The main tune of a musical piece is often called what.
What is a melody?
This composer, who went deaf at the age of 44, continued making beautiful works like The Moonlight Sonata well after he lost his hearing.
Who is Beethoven?
This word, meaning to enlarge, can refer to both a type of chord or a composition technique.
What is augment?
Bang! Crash! Mr. McGee plays percussion for these two symphony orchestras.
What are the Plymouth Philharmonic and Cape Symphony Orchestra?
This is the highest double-reed instrument in a standard orchestra.
What is the oboe?
This percussion instrument with wooden bars is played with rubber or yarn mallets.
What is a marimba?
This British composer's most famous work (an orchestral suite inspired by our solar system) features pieces like Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity.
Who is Gustav Holst?
Listen closely. This distance between E and G# can be described as what type of interval.
What is a major third?
Mr. McGee teaches these five courses at SHS.
Band, Jazz Band, Music Theory, Guitar, Digital Music Composition
Competent players of this instrument use a special breathing pattern to sustain notes for up to 40 minutes.
What is the didgeridoo?
This practicing tool is very helpful to keep a specific beat.
What is a metronome?
This famous composer of marching band repertoire has a brass instrument named after him. (Double points if you can guess the instrument as well).
Who is John Philip Sousa? (For double points: the sousaphone)
This diatonic scale can be defined as beginning on the fourth mode of a major scale or as raising the fourth tone by a half step (or a semitone).
What is the Lydian Mode?
Mr. McGee has this many sons.
What is 2?
This versatile wind instrument comes in many different shapes, sizes, and keys was popularized by the video game "Zelda."
What is an ocarina?
This natural version of this type of scale can be defined by a whole step, followed by a half step, then two whole steps, a half step, and two whole steps.
W-H-W-W-H-W-W
What is a minor scale?
This German composer's piece, "The Ride of the Valkyries," from the opera Die Walküre was given the lyrics "Kill the Wabbit" by an early Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Who is Richard Wagner?
The 128th note is sometimes referred to (especially in Great Britain) as this.
What is a quasihemidemisemiquaver or a semihemidemisemiquaver?
The Marvelous Mr. McGee has been bald for this many years. (hint: it's a multiple of 10)
What is 30?
This instrument, invented by Benjamin Franklin, requires water to play.
What is a glass harmonica?
The third note of a diatonic scale is called this because it is halfway between the tonic and the dominant.
What is the Mediant?