Piano Keyboard and the Grand Staff
This clef is used for higher voices and instruments such as female singers, flutes, and violins.
What is treble clef?
A metronome is a device that keeps a steady beat but can be adjusted to increase or decrease this.
What is tempo?
The title of the national anthem for the United States of America.
What is the Star Spangled Banner.
This type of music has no accompaniment.
What is A Capella?
This composer wrote "Ode to Joy," a song from the fourth movement of his ninth and final symphony.
Who was Beethoven?
The black piano key between G and A can be called these two names.
What are G# (G-sharp) and A-flat?
3/4, 4/4 and 6/8 are examples of these.
What are time signatures?
He wrote the song, "This Land is Your Land."
Who is Woody Guthrie?
What is a euphonium?
Blues musician B.B. King, country star Johnny Cash, and rock/folk singer Paul Simon all played this instrument.
What is the guitar?
This symbol directs a performer to lower the pitch of a note by one half-step.
What is a flat?
FF is an abbreviation for this dynamic marking meaning "very loud."
What is fortissimo?
South Pacific and The Sound of Music are two musicals written by this duo.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
SATB is an acronym known in choral music as this.
What is Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass?
A famous symphony orchestra not from the United States.
What is the Berlin Philharmonic (or London Symphony)?
This clef is used for lower voices and instruments like the tuba and male singing voices?
What is Bass Clef?
This type of note is drawn by making a black circle with a stem and two flags.
What is a sixteenth note?
An American composer who wrote many marches and directed the US Marine Band called, "The President's Own."
Who is John Philip Sousa?
Four types of mallet percussion instruments.
What are xylophones, marimbas, vibraphones, and glockenspiel bells?
An American composer who wrote the song, "Summertime" from his opera, Porgy and Bess.
Who is George Gershwin?
This acronym helps us remember the names of the notes on the lines of the treble clef.
What is EGBDF?
This articulation is indicated by a line placed just above or below the note head and means the performer should hold the note for its full length.
What is tenuto or legato?
Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, and Ella Fitzgerald are musicians known for this style of American music.
What is jazz?
This composer and conductor is known for the first major virtual choir project.
Who is Eric Whitacre?
Instruments like the harpsichord and viola de gamba were used during this musical time period.
What is Baroque?