Orchestra
The orchestra is led by a ________.
What is a conductor?
This is where the "wind" in woodwind comes from.
What is the player must use WIND to play the instrument?
This is the _____ instrument family in the orchestra.
What is largest?
What do you hit percussion instruments with?
What is mallets and drumsticks?
The violin is the _____ instrument in the strings family.
What is smallest?
An orchestra must contain this to be categorized as an orchestra.
What is string instruments?
What is you blow air through the mouthpiece?
These instruments are played by plucking or ______ strings.
What is strumming?
You play a percussion instrument by _____ or _____ it.
What is hitting?
What is shaking?
Both the violin and the double bass have ____ strings.
What is 4?
This is the definition of an orchestra.
What is A group of instruments, including strings, that play together?
This is how the woodwind player changes the pitches on the instrument.
What is they must close holes called KEYS in different combinations?
All string instruments are constructed of these two materials.
What is wood and strings?
The percussion family have a large range of _____. (From triangle to marimba)
What is complexity?
Every timpani has a _____ for the timpanist to tune the drum to the key of the song.
What is pedal?
These are the instrument families in an orchestra.
What is Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, and Percussion?
This is a TRUE fact about the woodwind family.
(Hint - It has to do with that they are made of)
What is not all woodwind instruments are made of wood?
Some string instruments use this, while others do not.
What is a bow?
These are the 2 percussion instruments we learned about.
What is timpani and marimba?
The marimba is a _______ percussion instrument.
What is melodic?
This is the definition of an instrument family.
What is a group of instruments that have similar attributes?
This is what section in the orchestra the woodwind family sits in.
What is the middle behind the strings?
String instruments come in ______ sizes. The _____ being higher pitched and the ______ being lower pitched.
What is 4?
What is smaller?
What is Larger?
Some percussion instruments can be _____ ________ to produce sound.
What is struck together?
This is the main difference between the clarinet and the flute.
What is the clarinet requires a vibrating reed to produce sound and the flute requires the player to blow air over a hole like a soda bottle?