Music Terms
Musical Instruments
Parts of Instruments
Famous Composers
Musical History
100
Means strong, and is often used to mean loud.
What is forte?
100
Most commonly played type of musical instrument.
What is the guitar?
100
The things on a trumpet you press down on.
What are valves? (keys would work, too)
100
Wrote Ode to Joy.
Who was Beethoven?
100
Period which included composers such as Bach and Haydn.
What is the classical period?
200
Used to signify playing a piece an octave higher.
What is 8va?
200
Highest orchestral instrument.
What is the piccolo?
200
The long part of a fiddle that the strings run up which connects with the head.
What is the neck?
200
Wrote Turkish March.
Who was Mozart?
200
Included composers such as Chopin and Schubert.
What is the Romantic period?
300
Word used to mean slow down.
What is ritardando?
300
100,000 of these instruments are made per year in the USA.
What is the piano?
300
The part of a flute you blow into.
What is the lip plate?
300
Wrote Canon.
Who was Pachelbel?
300
Age that happened in the mid 1960s-1980s.
What is the classic rock age?
400
Means very, much.
What is molto?
400
12% of musicians play this instrument.
What is the violin?
400
Used in many woodwind instruments, this is a small wooden piece placed into the mouthpiece.
What is a reed?
400
Famous for writing many mazurkas about his home country, Poland.
Who was Chopin?
400
Age that happened in the 1920s, starting in 1918, when younger people began trying out new styles of music.
What is the Jazz Age?
500
Means suddenly, quickly.
What is subito?
500
One of the earliest instruments, this instrument was played by George Washington, James Madison and Leonardo daVinci.
What is the flute?
500
The pedal on a piano that causes the notes to hold for a long time.
What is the damper/sustain pedal?
500
Composer famous for writing "Rhapsody in Blue."
Who was Charles Gershwin?
500
Type of music that was sung in the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Gregorian Chant?
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