Strings
Woodwinds
Music Potpourri
Percussion
Voice
100
This string instrument is used as a fiddle in country or bluegrass music.
What is the violin?
100
This instrument is played by blowing across the mouthpiece.
What is the flute?
100
This instrument is the lowest voice in the brass family.
What is the tuba?
100
This percussion instrument makes sound when hammers hit strings inside of it.
What is the piano?
100
These are the four main vocal parts of a chorus.
What are soprano, alto, tenor, and bass?
200
Name the four main instruments of the string family.
What are the violin, viola, cello, and bass?
200
This instrument is called the ________.
What is the bassoon?
200
This brass instrument is the only one to use a slide to change pitches.
What is the trombone?
200
This instrument requires the player to use every limb of his or her body when performing.
What is the drum set?
200
This is the meaning of "a capella."
What is voice only/no instrumental accompaniment?
300
This section of the orchestra has the most instruments.
What is the violin section?
300
Name one of the two double reed instruments.
What is the bassoon or oboe?
300
This note is two higher than G.
What is B?
300
This drum is sometimes called the heartbeat of the band.
What is the bass drum?
300
This is the large muscle under our lungs that helps us breathe and support our sound.
What is the diaphragm?
400
This string instrument has the shortest bow.
What is the double bass?
400
Name one of the two single reed instruments.
What is the clarinet or saxophone?
400
This symbol in music means to connect two of the same note into a single sound.
What is a tie?
400
Name one percussion instrument with wooden bars.
What are xylophone or marimba?
400
This is the organ in the throat that we use to produce sound, also called the voice box.
What is the larynx?
500
Pizzicato is an Italian word that means this.
What is to pluck the strings?
500
The full orchestra tunes to this instrument.
What is the oboe?
500
One quarter note + 2 eighth notes - one half rest + 4 sixteenth notes + one whole note = this many beats?
What is five beats?
500
Large drums that can be pitched with a pedal are called this. They are sometimes called kettle drums.
What is the timpani?
500
These are the solfege syllables for a major scale.
What are do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do?