MishMash
The Orchestra
School Day Concert
Recorder Challenge
Musical Terms
100
The difference between high/low and loud/soft
What is PITCH vs DYNAMICS?
100
The four instrument families of the orchestra.
What are STRINGS, WOODWINDS, BRASS & PERCUSSION?
100
This is the home of the NY Philharmonic (where you saw the School Day Concert)
What is Lincoln Center (Avery Fisher Hall)
100
Four notes that are above A.
What are Bb, B, C, C#, D, E
100
The musical term for how fast/ slow.
What is TEMPO?
200
The differences between Ms. Meena's instrument and Dr. Choi's.
What are the VIOLA is bigger, lower, and reads in a different clef from the VIOLIN?
200
The instrument that has the highest number in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
200
The actor playing the Sultan transformed himself into this character from the 1001 Arabian Tales.
Who is Sinbad?
200
Notes for the "Arabian Scale".
What are G A Bb C# D?
200
The order of these dynamics from softest to loudest: piano, fortissimo, mezzo piano, forte
What is p, mp, f, ff?
300
Mr. Arnold's favorite phrase that begins... "If you can control..."
What is "IF YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR BREATH, YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR MIND. IF YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR MIND, YOU CAN CONTROL YOURSELF"?
300
A woodwind instrument used in the In-School Concert in the auditorium here at the school.
What is the FLUTE, BASSOON or the CLARINET?
300
The 7 melodic themes we learned from Scheherazade.
What are the SCHEHERAZADE, the SULTAN, the KALENDAR PRINCE, ANNOUNCEMENT, PROCESSION, the PRINCE & PRINCESS, the BAGHDAD FESTIVAL
300
Fingerings for F and F#
What are "FORK" (F) and "SPIDERMAN" (F#)
300
The musical term for silence in music.
What is a REST?
400
The website for NY Phil Kidzone.
What is WWW.NYPHILKIDS.ORG?
400
The instrument family that is at the back of the stage in an orchestra.
What is the PERCUSSION (and sometimes the BRASS)?
400
The word for a background that is a long, held note; ex. played by Steve on the trombone to accompany Ms. Meena's Arabian viola melody.
What is a DRONE?
400
Fingerings for 3 low/ high notes (ex. low d, high D)
What are c/C, d/D, e/E?
400
The musical form in which a recurring musical theme is interspersed with other themes/ melodies.
What is a RONDO?
500
Smetana used a river that flowed through his homeland as the inspiration for this orchestral piece.
What is the MOLDAU?
500
The title of the person who leads the orchestra.
What is a conductor?
500
This is the composer of Scheherazade. He was from Russia.
Who is Rimsky-Korsakov
500
Play the Procession Theme using these notes: G, A, Bb, B, C, D
What is G A B- Bb B D C B- Bb B?
500
The term for choices a composer can make about which instrument(s) will play certain parts of the music.
What is ORCHESTRATION or INSTRUMENTATION?
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