Musical Instruments
This fretted instrument has six strings and is played by strumming or plucking the strings with one hand, while simultaneously pressing the strings against the frets with the fingers of the other hand.
What is the guitar?
It takes four of these notes to make up a whole note.
What is a quarter note?
This was the theme song for a movie that features a construction worker named Emmett.
What is “Everything is Awesome” from the Lego Movie?
This 1998 Disney animation featured the song “I'll Make Man Out of You”
What is Mulan?
This young men's leader played lead trombone in a tri-county youth jazz band and sang tenor in BYU's Mens Chorus.
Who is Brother Gwilliam?
Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, and Wynton Marsalis are all famous performers of this brass instrument.
What is the Trumpet?
This term refers to a gradual increase in volume during a section of music.
What is a “Crescendo”?
This composer wrote the music for many famous movies including Star Wars, Superman, ET, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter.
Who is John Williams?
This 2006 American musical TV film featured a basketball player, Troy (Zac Efron), and studious transfer student Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens); it became the most commercially successful Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced.
What is High School Musical?
This young men’s leader first met his wife while they were playing in a music group together at BYU. He dated at least three other girls in the group before her.
Who is Bishop Rogerson?
Bishop Rogerson plays this string instrument that is larger than a violin but smaller than a Cello.
What is a Viola?
This type of note is one half-step below the same natural note in pitch.
What is a flat note?
Some of the songs from this 1939 live action musical included “Over the Rainbow”, “If I Only Had a Brain”, and “If I Were King of the Forest”
What is the Wizard of Oz?
This 1965 musical featured Julie Andrews as a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
What is the Sound of Music?
This young men’s leader was in an acapella group during college and played trumpet in jazz bands both in high school and college.
Who is Brother Adamson?
This brass instrument was created at the direction of John Phillip Sousa, and was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching.
What is the Sousaphone?
This term the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure.
What is a Coda?
This famous hip hop musical follows the story of one of the founding fathers; it premiered in 2015 and was released on Disney+ in 2020.
What is “Hamilton”?
This musical was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City.
What is Newsies?
This young men’s leader was once in a rock band called “the suits”, which played at a lot of stake dances and the high school talent show.
Who is Brother Ackerson?
This instrument was developed by the Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago, and is traditionally made of hardwood that has been hollowed out by termites.
What is a Didgeridoo?
This is a symbol used in sheet music to indicate that a note should be held longer than its standard duration. The length that the note can be held is up to the artist or conductor.
What is a Fermata?
This 1968 epic space science fiction film is widely regarded as among the greatest and most influential films ever made; the score for which included classical music from Richard Strauss, György Ligeti, and Johann Strauss II.
What is “2001: A Space Odyssey”?
This animated musical was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production.
What is Jungle Book?
This bishopric member and his wife have attended more stake dances than anyone else in the stake.
Who is Brother Rubow?