Band vs. Orchestra
Musical Theatre
Are you smarter than an 8th grader?
Rests
Musical Math
100

Using the back of the bow

Col legno

100

The location where the orchestra usually plays

Pit

100

Changing musical volumes

Dynamics

100

This rest gets 1 beat of silence in 4/4 time

Quarter rest

100

Quarter note + half note

3

200

I was a trumpet before valves were invented

Bugle

200

The halfway point of a musical is called this

Intermission

200

Creating your own music in the moment

Improvisation

200

This rest equals 2 beats of silence in 4/4 time

Half rest

200
Half note + whole note

6

300

Both thumbs are used to play this instrument

Bassoon

300

This group of singers helps move the plot along but are not a main character

Chorus

300

When the off beats are accented

Syncopation

300

This rest gets 4 beats of silence in 4/4 time

Whole rest

300

Dotted half note + half note

5

400

I have a diamond above the note

Artificial or false harmonic

400

This is the music that starts the show

Overture

400

F# is the 7th note in the key of ?

G

400

This rest gets 1/2 of a beat of silence in 4/4 time

Eighth rest

400

Whole note + dotted half note

7

500

The clef that the cellos use once they reach 3 ledger lines above the staff

Tenor

500

The second time a song is sung in a musical that often has the title in it

Reprise

500

The note H in German music

B

500

This rest gets 1/4 beat of silence in 4/4 time

Sixteenth rest

500

Half note + quarter note + whole note

7

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