Instruments
This percussion instrument is used to create a large crash.
What are cymbals?
This composer wrote 9 symphonies, including one featuring "Ode to Joy."
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This is the number of musicians who play in a string quartet.
What is 4?
This is the part of string instruments used to make small tuning adjustments.
What are fine tuners?
This is the silence in between notes.
What are rests?
This instrument has a slide instead of valves.
What is a trombone?
This is Mozart's middle name.
What is Amadeus?
The note that is played first when tuning an orchestra.
What is A?
Music is divided into these sections with vertical bar lines.
What are measures?
This note lasts 1/2 a beat in 4/4 time.
What is an eighth note?
A standard full-sized piano has this many keys.
What is 88?
Johann Sebastian Bach was famous for playing this large instrument found in churches.
What is the organ?
If a conductor's gesture suddenly becomes much larger, they are likely asking for more of this.
What is volume?
This Italian dynamic marking means "very loud."
What is fortissimo?
The symbol that indicates the music is over.
What is a double bar line?
This is the highest-pitched woodwind instrument in the symphony orchestra.
What is a piccolo?
Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Bach were all from this country.
What is Germany?
The term for a type of rehearsal geared only towards one instrument group (ex: only violins)
This Italian term directly translates to "with the bow" and indicates one to stop playing pizzicato.
What is arco?
The hollow note without a stem in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note?
This is the tuned percussion instrument typically part of a symphony orchestra.
What is a timpani?
This composer wrote the Messiah, which includes a very famous "Hallelujah" chorus.
Who is George Frederic Handel?
The location of where an orchestra plays for a Broadway musical.
What is the pit?
The Italian term for playing articulation that is smooth and connected.
What is legato?
The type of note value you would get from adding 3 quarter notes together (must = 1 note) in 4/4 time.
What is a dotted half note?