Rhythm Masters
Instrument Detective
Music Theory Challenge
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Hodge-Podge
100

This note gets one beat in 4/4 time.

What is a quarter note?

100

This brass instrument usually plays the highest notes.

What is a trumpet?

100

This symbol raises a pitch by one half step.

What is a sharp?

100

This piece put us in a fantasy world filled with medieval imagery, castles, and mythical creatures.

What is Castles and Dragons?

100

This should be on your stand before rehearsal begins (three things).

What is music, folder, and pencil?

200

This note gets two beats in 4/4 time.

What is a half note?

200

This instrument uses a single reed and is common in beginning band.

What is a clarinet?

200

This scale has no sharps or flats.

What is C major?

200

This piece is based on an old English holiday song associated with the day after Christmas.

What is At the Feast of Stephen?

200

This term describes playing slightly before the beat.

What is rushing?

300

A dotted quarter note receives this many beats.

What is 1½ beats?

300

This woodwind is made of brass but belongs to the woodwind family.

What is a saxophone?

300

The key of G major has this many sharps.

What is one?

300

In this piece, players had to create the feeling of danger and excitement as a giant object raced through the sky.

What is Fireball!?

300

A B-flat trumpet playing written C produces this concert pitch.

What is B-flat?

400

In 6/8 time, this note value usually receives one beat.

What is a dotted quarter note?

400

This instrument sounds one octave lower than written pitch.

What is a tuba?

400

The relative minor of C major is this key.

What is A minor?

400

This march by Randall Standridge uses the name of a thorny plant associated with Ireland and Celtic traditions.

What is Blackthorn March?

400

If a flute and clarinet play the same written note, this quality helps us tell them apart.

What is tone color (timbre)?

500

Two sixteenth notes plus one eighth note equal this many beats in 4/4 time.

What is 1 beat?

500

This instrument in concert band usually sounds a perfect fifth lower than written.

What is a French horn?

500

The interval from C up to A is this interval.

What is a major sixth?

500

This piece was arranged from a Disney movie and students probably sang the words even though they weren't supposed to.

What is We Don't Talk About Bruno?

500

The overtone series naturally begins with this interval above the fundamental after the octave.

What is a perfect fifth?

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