Instruments
Musical Terms
Notes and Scales
Challenge
100

The smallest stringed instrument in the orchestra.

What is the violin?

100

This is the term we use for when music sounds loud or strong.

What is forte?

100

The D major scale has this many sharps.

What is two?

100

This is what we call orchestra music from the 1700s.

What is Classical?

200

The stringed instruments of the orchestra are usually played with this.

What is a bow?

200

This is the term we use for when we pluck the strings with our fingers.

What is arco?

200

On all of our instruments, we usually play the note E on the D string with this finger.

What is the first finger?

200

This is another name for a violin.

What is a fiddle?
300

The lowest string on the double bass.

What is the E string?

300

This is the term we use for notes that are short and separated.

What is staccato?

300

A major scale has this many different notes.

What is seven?

300

This Mexican folk music tradition often uses violins, guitars, trumpets, and a large bass instrument called a guitarrĂ³n.

What is Mariachi?

400

Cellos and basses have an endpin. Violins and violas have this.

What is the end button?

400

This is the term we use for when music gets louder.

What is crescendo?

400

This symbol looks like a hashtag or number sign/

What is the sharp symbol?
400

The song most strongly associated with Dracula, "Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor", was composed by this German Composer.

Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?

500

This stringed instrument with 47 strings is sometimes used in orchestra, but we don't have it.

What is the harp?

500

The language that most of our musical terms come from.

What is Italian?

500

This is the sixth note of the D major scale.

What is B?

500

Beethoven was from this country.

Austria

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