Grab Bag
Note Values
Instruments
Instrument Families
Instruments
100

The musical alphabet.

What is A,B, C,D,E,F,G?

100

This note gets 4 beats

What is a whole note

100
This percussion instrument has Drums and Cymbals attached.
What is a drum set?
100
This family of instruments includes piano and drum.
What is the percussion family?
100

Woodwind instrument learned in elementary music class

What is a recorder?

200

When music is played short, crisp, quickly or detached.

What is staccato?

200

This note gets 2 beats

What is a half note

200
The highest voice of the string family, it has 4 strings, and uses bow.
What is a Violin?
200
This family of instruments includes flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophones, and bassoon.
What is the Woodwind family?
200

You can shake and tap this instrument

What is a tambourine?

300

When music is played smoothly.

What is legato?

300

This note gets 1 beat

What is a quarter note

300
A brass instrument with 3 valves. It is the highest voice in the family.
What is a trumpet?
300
The electric guitar is part of this family of instruments.
What is the string family?
300

This percussion instrument has wooden bars

What is a xylophone?

400

The composer of the "Nutcracker" 

Who is Tchaikovsky?

400
Two of these notes equal one beat

What is an eighth note

400
This shiny metal woodwind instrument has holes and keys that you put your fingers over. You blow across the hole to make sound.
What is a Flute?
400
This instrument family includes Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone, French Horn, and Tuba.
What is the Brass family?
400

An instrument that slides and is a whistle

What is a slide whistle?

500

This period of music was very colorful, dramatic and showed much personal emotional expression.

What is the Romantic Period?

500

4 of these notes equal 1 beat

What are 16th notes
500
This giant wood string instrument has a very low sound, 4 strings, and is played by either plucking or bowing it.
What is a Bass?
500

This instrument has strings but is considered a percussion instrument.

What is a piano

500

Instrument that you can hum into

What is a kazoo?

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