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What is Classical?
This brass instrument, known for its telescoping slide instead of valves, traces its name to an Italian word meaning “large trumpet.”
What is the Trombone?
Composer of the Star Spangle Banner
What is Francis Scott Key?
Invented in the 1920s, this electronic instrument uses oscillators and a keyboard to create new sounds, and became a staple in electronic, pop, and experimental music.
What is the theremin?
The March King know as?
What is John Phillip Sousa?
God's Country
What is Country?
This double-reed woodwind instrument, known for its bright, penetrating tone, often gives the tuning “A” to the orchestra before a performance.
What is the Oboe?
Composer of the Maple Leaf Rag
What is Scott Joplin?
This city is often called the birthplace of jazz, where musicians blended ragtime, blues, and marching band music in the early 1900s.
What is New Orleans?
King of classical music
What is Johann Sebastian Bach?
American Patrol
What is Big-Band Jazz?
This member of the string family is tuned an octave below the viola and is played seated, with its endpin resting on the floor.
What is the Cello?
Composer of Horn Concerto No. 4 - Rondo
What is Mozart?
When did Jimi Hendrix play the Star Spangle Banner, and why did he play it?
What is 1969, as a protest against the Vietnam War?
King of country music
What is George Strait?
The Liberty Bell
What is a March?
Despite its name, this circular-shaped brass instrument is largely German in origin and is known for its mellow tone and notoriously tricky embouchure.
What is the French Horn?
Composer of Ode to Joy
What is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
In the early Middle Ages, this was the first instrument regularly used in Christian church music.
What is an Organ?
The King of pop
What is Micheal Jackson?
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
What is Baroque?
The lowest voice of the brass family, this instrument was first patented in 1835 and often anchors the harmony in both orchestras and marching bands.
What is the Tuba?
Composer of the Stars and Stripes Forever
What is John Phillip Sousa?
During the Middle Ages, this interval, also called “diabolus in musica,” was considered so dissonant it was often avoided in church music.
What is the tritone?
The King of Jazz
What is Louis Armstrong?