Instrument Families
These instruments include violin, viola, cello, and bass.
What is the string family?
In 4/4 time, this note gets 1 beat.
What is a quarter note?
The word forte means to play this way.
What is loud?
This composer wrote “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Variations.”
Who is Mozart?
This person stands in front and leads the orchestra.
Who is the conductor?
The flute belongs to this family.
What is the woodwind family?
This note gets 2 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a half note?
The word piano means to play this way.
What is soft?
This German composer became deaf but kept writing music.
Who is Beethoven?
This is the highest-sounding instrument in the string family.
What is the violin?
The trumpet belongs to this family.
What is the brass family?
This note gets 4 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note?
This term means “gradually getting louder.”
What is crescendo?
This Russian composer wrote The Nutcracker.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
This is the lowest-sounding instrument in the string family.
What is the double bass?
This family of instruments uses buzzing lips to create sound.
What is the brass family?
Two of these equal one quarter note.
What are eighth notes?
This Italian term means “gradually slowing down.”
What is ritardando?
This Austrian composer wrote over 600 works before dying at age 35.
Who is Mozart?
The concertmaster plays this instrument.
What is the violin?
The timpani belongs to this family of instruments.
What is the percussion family?
A note with a dot after it gets this much longer.
What is half again as long (or 1½ times its value)?
This word means “fast and lively.”
What is allegro?
This Baroque composer wrote the Brandenburg Concertos.
Who is J. S. Bach?
This type of orchestra includes only string instruments.
What is a string orchestra?