Instruments
This instrument from Hawaii has 4 strings.
What is a ukulele?
This musical element is how loud and soft music is. (Piano and forte)
What are dynamics?
This rhythmic value is 4 beats long and looks like a circle.
What is a whole note?
This famous film composer wrote scores to Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park, to name a few...
Who is John Williams?
This catchy Bruno Mars song about friendship teaches kids their numbers "like 1,2,3."
What is Count on Me?
This string instrument replaced the ukulele in the 1950's during the rock and roll era, and has 6 strings.
What is a guitar?
This musical element means how fast or slow music is. The speed of the beat.
What is tempo?
This rhythmic value is 1 sound and 1 beat.
What is a quarter note?
This deaf composer wrote 9 symphonies, one being "Ode to Joy."
What is Beethoven?
"Oh say can you see" our national anthem written by Francis Scott Key.
What is The Star Spangled Banner?
These rhythmic instruments come pitched and non-pitched, are in the Percussion Family, and are struck by mallets or hands.
What are drums?
This musical element includes short and long durations of sound, such as quarter notes and half notes.
What is rhythm?
What are eighth notes?
This British Rock Group came to the United Stated in 1964 and wrote hits such as "Yesterday" and "Let it Be."
What is The Beatles?
Paul McCartney wrote this song after dreaming about his mother who passed, "When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom-"
What is "Let it Be?"
This instrument in the Woodwinds Family is popular in jazz music, played with a reed, and made of brass.
What is a saxophone?
This element is often the main tune of a song- a series of pitches, high and low. It's also a girl's name!
What is melody?
These notes are silent in music, but still equal beats like their counterparts.
What are rests?
This rising American musician, singer, actor, and composer wrote Hamilton, In the Heights, and Encanto.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
"Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me/Mama, just killed a man..." are just some of the lyrics to this iconic song released in 1975.
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
This instrument is both a string instrument and a percussion instrument, and is played by striking 88 keys.
What is a piano?
This musical element is the tone color of instruments- not to be confused with what we say when cutting down a tree!
What is timbre?
This note is 3 beats long with a little dot friend attached to it's side...
What is a dotted half note?
This rock group's name known for "Thunderstruck" and "Back in Black" is made up of letters of the alphabet.
Who is AC/DC?
"It was my wedding day, it was our wedding day, we were getting ready and there wasn't a cloud in the sky..."
What is "We Don't Talk About Bruno?"