Who?
Instruments I
The Middle
Instruments II
Form
100
This composer wrote his first pieces at the age of three.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
100
The highest pitched of the woodwind instruments.
What is the piccolo?
100
What is conducting?
100
The violin, guitar, bass, and harp belong to this family.
What is the string family?
100
Listening Challenge: Identify the form of the following piece.
3rd-5th: What is AABA?
God, We Praise You
6th-7th: What is AABC?
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
200
Wrote the Ode to Joy.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
200
This instrument is sometimes considered a brass instrument and sometimes a woodwind, since it sounds so similar to both.
What is the French Horn?
200
The dates of Beethoven's life.
a) 1670-1727
b) 1685-1750
c) 1756-1791
e) 1770-1827
What is 1770-1827?
200
The family with the most instruments.
What is the percussion family?
200
A harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness.
What is sympathetic vibration?
300
Wrote the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b) Benjamin Britten
c) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
d) Henry Purcell
Who is Benjamin Britten?
300
Larger than a violin, smaller than a cello.
What is the viola?
300
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Strikingly different things in juxtaposition.
What is contrast?
300
Mr. O'Byrne's instrument.
What is the String Bass?
300
A part of a piece of music in which themes from the exposition are restated.
What is the recapitulation?
400
Conducted the Pines of Rome with the New York Philharmonic in the concert we watched in class.
a) Leonard Bernstein
b) John Williams
c) Mr. O'Byrne
e) Gustav Mahler
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
400
This is a group of pitched drums, often considered the leader of the percussion family.
What are the timpani/kettle drums?
400
The place and time in Pines when we heard a phonograph bird sing.
What is the The Pines of the Janiculum (movement 3) at midnight?
400
The English Horn belongs to this family.
What is the woodwind family?
400
Theme and Variations best describes this.
a) A B A
b) A A1 A2 A3 A4
c) Development
d) A B A1 A2 C B1 D A1 B A
What is b) A A1 A2 A3 A4?
500
This composer wrote the Pines of Rome.
a) Giacomo Puccini
b) Gioachino Rossini
c) Ottorino Respighi
d) Giuseppe Verdi
Who is Ottorino Respighi?
500
This instrument's name means "quiet" since its ancestors could only play loudly.
What is the piano?
500
The four sections (events occurring) of the Pines of Rome and their times of day.
What are?
1. The Pines of the Villa Borghese (afternoon)
2. Pines Near a Catacomb (twilight, evening, vespers)
3. The Pines of the Ianiculum (midnight)
4. The Pines of the Appian Way (dawn)
500
This family utilizes slides, mutes, rotary valves, and piston valves to make sound.
What is the brass family?
500
Listening Challenge: Identify the form of the following piece.
What is ABCB?
How Deep the Father's Love