Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Strings
Pop Quiz!
100
Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon, and Contra Bassoon use this type of reed.
What is a double reed?
100
The smallest brass instrument we learned about in class.
What is the trumpet?
100
These are used in Spanish music. They have a clicking sound.
What are castanets?
100
Violin, Cello, Viola, and Double Bass have this many strings.
What is "4 strings"?
100
This instrument made the neighing horse noise at the end of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo."
What is the trumpet?
200
These three instruments are in the "single reed" family.
What are the clarinet, the bass clarinet, and the saxophones?
200
John Philip Sousa created this instrument. It is a modified version of another brass instrument. Name both.
What is the sousaphone? What is the tuba?
200
This instrument has a foot pedal that is used to change the pitch that is being played.
What is the tympani?
200
The harp has ____ strings and they are what colors?
What is 47? What is red and blue?
200
This is what the red fish on the shelf in the music room is actually called.
What is the güiro?
300
This woodwind instrument is also called the "Clown" of the orchestra.
What is the bassoon?
300
The instrumentalist uses their hand inside of the bell of this instrument to change the sound it produces.
What is the French Horn?
300
These are examples of pitched instruments.
What are the piano, tympani, xylophone, triangle, metalophone, glockenspiel, orchestra bells, etc.
300
This instrument is also played in jazz music.
What is the string/double bass?
300
Joseph Haydn was from this musical era.
What is the Classical Period?
400
This is the newest instrument family to the band.
What is the Saxophone family?
400
The order of the sizes of these six instruments from smallest to largest.
What is the trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, and sousaphone?
400
These instruments are non-pitched.
What is snare drum, bass drum, guiro, wood block, tambourine, cymbals, gong, etc.
400
This is the order of the 5 string instruments from smallest to largest.
What is violin, viola, cello, double bass, and harp.
400
This is the type of music you would expect to hear at a symphony orchestra concert.
What is the "classical" style of music?
500
The smaller form of flute is called this. Also, it is in this language.
What is the piccolo? What is Italian?
500
This instrument does not use valves.
What is the trombone?
500
The piano has this many keys?
What is "88?"
500
This section of string instruments are usually divided into two sections. This is what those sections are called.
What is the violin section? What are the Violin I and Violin II sections?
500
This is where music is.
What is "everywhere?"
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