Songs we have sung
The song we sing at Commencement (Class 12 graduation) every year.
What is "Blessing"?
The instrument family for violin, viola, cello, and bass.
What are strings?
This is what vibrates on a stringed instrument.
What are the strings?
What is two?
This means "soft" and is also the name of a keyboard instrument.
What is "piano"?
The official Waterford School Song
What is "How Wondrous Is That Light"?
The instrument family for trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas.
What is brass?
This is what makes the string vibrate on a stringed instrument.
What is the bow?
This is the number of 8th notes that add up to a quarter note.
What are two?
This means loud or strong.
What is "forte"?
The song we commissioned for Winter Concert last December.
What is "Millions of Stars"?
The instrument family of the marimba.
What is percussion?
For a stringed instrument, this is the place made for the sound to grow.
What is the body of the instrument?
This is the number of quarter note beats you get from four 16th notes.
What is one?
This is what mp stands for and what it means. (2-part answer)
What is "mezzo-piano" and "medium soft"?
This is what the song "Ton The" talks about.
What is asking if drinking tea soothes a cough?
This is how an organ is like a wind instrument.
What is "air blows through the pipes just like a big whistle"?
This is what vibrates to create sound on a clarinet or oboe.
What is the reed?
This is the number of groups of four 16th notes that make up one dotted half note.
What is three?
This is what you do to an Italian word to make it more intense, equivalent to saying "very" before a word in Engligh.
What is "Add -issimo" to the end of the word.
This song we performed in our Winter Concert came from Appalachia in the USA.
What is "I Wonder As I Wander"?
This is why the flute is a woodwind instrument even though it is made entirely of metal.
These are the three things necessary to create a musical sound.
What is: Something that vibrates, something to make it vibrate, and a place for the sound to grow.
The number of quarter note beats you get from
"Ti-tika, tika-ti, tika-tika, tah-ah"
What is five?
This is what the word "tempo" means.
What is "time" (or "speed")?