Instruments
Dynamics
Elements of music
Keywords 1
Keywords 2
100
Name the four families of instruments in an orchestra.
String family, brass family, woodwind family, percussion family
100
If you see the letter 'f' on a piece of music in lower case, what is it telling you to do?
Play loudly (If it were a capital letter by itself it may be telling you to play the note F if it is below the stave, or the chord of F if it is above the stave)
100
Which element are we describing if we say 'high' or 'low'?
Pitch (NOT dynamics, that is loud and soft/quiet)
100
What is a time signature?
The time signature tells us how many beats there are in the bar and is found at the beginning of a piece of music.
100
What does it mean if we are singing in unison?
It means we are singing the same thing at the same time.
200
Name any instrument with four strings.
Bass guitar, cello, violin, viola, double bass, viol
200
What is the word that means 'get gradually louder'?
Crescendo
200
What are people doing when they are cohabiting?
Living together without being married.
200
What does it mean if there are two staves on a piece of music joined together?
That two different things are happening at the same time. i.e. two instruments or voices playing two different things.
200
What do the notes in the spaces of the treble clef spell?
FACE
300
What is the purpose of a reed on an instrument from the woodwind family?
It vibrates when you blow it to help create the sound.
300
What does 'pp' stand for on a piece of music?
Pianissimo, play very quietly.
300
Name as many different words for texture as you can think of (300 points for each!)
Solo, accompaniment, thick, thin, call and response, chords, polyphonic, homophonic, monophonic, canon
300
What are the black notes on a keyboard called?
Sharps or flats.
300
What rhyme helps you to remember the letter names of the spaces in the bass clef?
All Cows Eat Grass
400
What is the difference between a xylophone and a glockenspiel?
Xylophone bars are made of wood, glockenspiel bars are made of metal.
400
Give a word that tells you to get gradually quieter.
Decerescendo or diminuendo
400
Explain what a crotchet looks like and how many beats it lasts for.
A coloured in circle with a tail. It lasts for 1 beat.
400
Explain what a barline is and why we use them.
A barline is a vertical line on a stave. Barlines separate a piece of music up into smaller sections to make the music easier to read. The length of a bar depends on the time signature. Bars are often 4 beats long, but they can be of any length.
400
What is score reading?
When you look at and follow a score with the music playing and work out what all the different parts mean, you are score reading.
500
How do you find the letter C on a keyboard?
Find a pair of balck notes, the white note on the left hand side is always a C.
500
What does 'mezzo forte' mean?
Play moderately loudly
500
If the time signature is 4, how many semiquavers could I fit into a bar? 4
16
500
Explain the difference between pulse and rhythm
Pulse is the beat of the music, the bit you would dance to. It speeds up and slows down but the distances between beats is always equal. Rhythms occur when you have notes of different lengths.
500
What is the difference between a melody and an accompaniment?
The melody of a piece of music is the tune, it is the bit you can sing along to. The accompaniment is the instruments in the background of a piece of music that support the main melody.
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