This string instrument is the smallest and plays the highest.
What is the Violin?
These are the four main instruments in the string family.
What are violin, viola, cello, and bass?
This person stands at the front and leads the orchestra.
What is the conductor?
He wrote The Four Seasons
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This Italian word means “slow.”
What is largo?
This instrument uses a bow and has the lowest pitch in the string family.
What is the Double Bass?
A group of four string players is called this.
What is a string quartet?
This word means to gradually get louder.
What is crescendo?
This German composer became deaf but still wrote symphonies.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This is the name of the space musicians keep their music in.
What is a folder or binder?
This instrument looks like a violin but is slightly larger and has a deeper sound.
What is the Viola
The leader of the string section is called this.
What is the concertmaster?
A musical “rest” means this.
What is silence/no playing?
This composer wrote 6 unaccompanied cello suites.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This is the tool used to keep instruments in tune.
What is a tuner?
This string instrument often plays the melody and sits in the front of the orchestra.
What is the First Violins
This is the technique of plucking the strings.
What is pizzicato?
This term means to play very softly.
What is pianissimo?
A Russian composer known for Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This is what a group of musicians is called.
What is an ensemble?
This large instrument is played seated and is held between the knees.
What is the Cello?
This is the curved stick used to play string instruments.
What is a bow?
This word means “to go back to the beginning.”
What is Da Capo (D.C.)?
This 20th-century American composed Adagio for Strings.
Who is Samuel Barber?
This clef is most commonly used by violas.
What is the alto clef?