Name that Instrument
String Sections
Orchestra Lingo
Famous Composers
Miscellaneous Music
100

This string instrument is the smallest and plays the highest.

What is the Violin?

100

These are the four main instruments in the string family.

What are violin, viola, cello, and bass?

100

This person stands at the front and leads the orchestra.

What is the conductor?

100

He wrote The Four Seasons

Who is Antonio Vivaldi?

100

This Italian word means “slow.”

What is largo?

200

This instrument uses a bow and has the lowest pitch in the string family.

What is the Double Bass?

200

A group of four string players is called this.

What is a string quartet?

200

This word means to gradually get louder.

What is crescendo?

200

This German composer became deaf but still wrote symphonies.

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

200

This is the name of the space musicians keep their music in.

What is a folder or binder?

300

This instrument looks like a violin but is slightly larger and has a deeper sound.

What is the Viola

300

The leader of the string section is called this.

What is the concertmaster?

300

A musical “rest” means this.

What is silence/no playing?

300

This composer wrote 6 unaccompanied cello suites.

Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?

300

This is the tool used to keep instruments in tune.

What is a tuner?

400

This string instrument often plays the melody and sits in the front of the orchestra.

What is the First Violins

400

This is the technique of plucking the strings.

What is pizzicato?

400

This term means to play very softly.

What is pianissimo?

400

A Russian composer known for Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

400

This is what a group of musicians is called.

What is an ensemble?

500

This large instrument is played seated and is held between the knees.

What is the Cello?

500

This is the curved stick used to play string instruments.

What is a bow?

500

This word means “to go back to the beginning.”

What is Da Capo (D.C.)?

500

This 20th-century American composed Adagio for Strings.

Who is Samuel Barber?

500

This clef is most commonly used by violas.

What is the alto clef?

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