Musical Instruments
The clarinet, the saxophone, the oboe, and the flute belong to this family of instruments.
What is the Woodwinds family?
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
The name of this musical period in history refers to overly ornamented, decorated or exaggerated elements of style.
What is The Baroque period?
This is a type of vocal percussion.
What is beatboxing?
A portion of this Richard Wagner's opera is often used as part of a wedding ceremony.
What is Lohengrin?
The instruments in this family are played by shaking, hitting, scrapping or tapping them.
What is the percussion family?
The distance or measurement between two pitches.
What is an interval?
Sometimes composers include this type of music in their compositions to preserve cultural heritage.
What is folk music?
Partnered dances like the Jitterbug, The Charleston and the Lindy Hop were accompanied by this type of music.
What is Jazz and Swing?
This type of ceremony is a way people in the city of New Orleans mourn death and remember a person's life through music.
What is the Jazz funeral?
This object, usually strung with horse hair, is used to play string instruments such as the violin, the viola, the cello, and the double-bass.
What is a bow?
A sequence of pitches that make up the part of the song we immediately recognize.
What is a melody?
The famous film composer John Williams uses this concept to assign a short theme to each character in a film to help develop their identity.
What is a leitmotif?
This law protects intellectual property to ensure the creator receives credit and the profits from its sale or use.
What is copyright?
This type of singing is very important in many religious ceremonies including Buddhism.
What is chanting?
Sometimes musicians will use this technique to change the timbre on their string instrument.
What is to pluck?
Two or more pitches played or sung simultaneously.
What is harmony?
A German term that means "storm and stress" used during the Romantic period to create contrast.
What is Sturm und Drang?
This symbol placed at the beginning of the staff tells a musician how many beats are in each measure or section of the music.
What is a time signature?
This type of therapy is used to rehabilitate a patient's memory.
What is music therapy?
The oboe plays this pitch at the beginning of an orchestra concert to ensure that all the instruments are tuned.
What is A440?
This element describes the color of sound.
What is timbre?
This invention helped create the first audio recording.
What is the phonograph?
This interval is a good example of dissonance that was initially avoided by composers in Medieval times.
What is a tritone?
This indigenous group from Brazil use storytelling through music to pass down their history, prayers and even how to complete tasks such as cooking to their younger members.
What is the Suya people?