Instruments
Musical Terms
Musical Terms II
Notes and Scales
Notes and Scales II
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
This term tells you to use the bow.
What is arco?
100
The D major scale has this many sharps.
What is two?
100
What is this note? (Check the clef.)
G
100
This is the definition of "allegro".
What is a fast tempo?
200
The lowest string on a viola
What is C?
200
This is the term we use for when we pluck the strings with our fingers.
What is arco?
200
This term refers to the speed of the beat in music.
What is tempo?
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
What note is this? (Check the clef and key.)
C sharp
200
Give some of the other names for the double bass.
Upright bass, string bass, contrabass, bull fiddle, bass 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
This refers to when we play multiple different notes in one bow stroke.
What is a slur?
300
The G major scale has this many sharps.
What is one?
300
What note is this? (Check the clef.)
C
300
This is an Argentinian style of dance music that uses violin, double bass, and an accordion-like instrument called the bandoneon.
What is tango?
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 is the term we use for when music gets softer.
What is decrescendo/diminuendo?
400
This symbol looks like a hashtag or number sign.
What is the sharp symbol?
400
What note is this? (Check the clef.)
C natural
400
This German composer wrote some of his most well-known pieces after losing his hearing.
Who is Beethoven?
500
This stringed instrument with 47 strings is only sometimes used in orchestra.
What is the harp?
500
The language that most of our musical terms come from.
What is Italian?
500
Notes that are smooth and connected.
What is legato?
500
This is the sixth note of the C major scale.
What is A?
500
What note is this? (Check the clef.)
E
500
This term refers to traditional music, usually passed down from generation to generation.
What is folk music?
600
The strings on stringed instruments used to mainly be main of this.
What is sheep gut?
600
This refers to when we play multiple notes in one bow stroke with a space in between.
What is a hooked bowing?
600
This appears at the beginning of a piece of music and tells you which notes will be sharp or flat.
What is the key signature?
600
The C Major scale has this many sharps.
What is zero?
600
What note is this? (Check the clef.)
B
600
The famous composer Bach played this instrument in orchestra.
What is the viola?