The smallest stringed instrument in the symphony orchestra
What is the violin?
100
A high-pitched woodwind instrument, however it is made of metal, not wood.
What is the flute?
100
The lowest and largest of the brass instruments
What is the tuba?
100
A percussion instrument is played by hitting, shaking or striking it: True or False
What is True
100
He went deaf during his career, and wrote only 9 Symphonies
Who is Beethoven?
200
A stringed instrument so large, you have to play it standing up
What is the String Bass?
200
A large, beautiful woodwind, over 8 feet long, folded in half, and has the lowest pitch (think "Grandpa" in Peter and the Wolf")
What is the bassoon?
200
The highest and smallest of the brass instruments in the orchestra
What is the trumpet?
200
This metal percussion instrument is a geometric shape, and is played by striking it on one of it's 3 sides
What is the triangle?
200
The composer of Carnival of the Animals?
Who is Saint-Saens?
300
It looks like a violin, but is a bit bigger and has a more mellow tone
What is the viola?
300
A double reed instrument, who's beautiful sound often helps to tune up the orchestra on the pitch "concert A"
What is the oboe?
300
This brass instrument doesn't usually have valves, but instead changes the length with a "slide"
What is the trombone?
300
This pitched percussion instrument is one we play in the classroom often - it has removable pitched bars made of wood, which make a melody or a steady beat
What is the xylophone?
300
An English composer, he wrote a movie score to teach kids about the instruments called "The Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra"
Who is Britten?
400
This instrument plays a beautiful solo in "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals (and you have to play it in front, sitting down).
What is the cello?
400
This instrument is very similar to the recorder, only made of wood, and has a single reed that vibrates to produce the sound.
What is the clarinet?
400
This beautiful brass instrument is a long coil of tubes, and has a mellow sound, like an old-fashioned hunting horn.
What is the French horn?
400
One of the biggest drums that keeps the steady beat, often sounding like a heart-beat
What is the bass drum?
400
He wrote nearly 200 hours of classical music, was a child prodigy, but nearly penniless when he died
Who is Mozart?
500
A techique of playing when the player plucks the strings instead of bowing: Choices - Arco or Pizzicato
What is "pizzicato"?
500
The smallest of the woodwinds, it's metal, and has a great solo in John Philip Sousa's march "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
What is the piccolo?
500
The brass instrument players use this technique to make the air vibrate through their instrument: Choices - reed or buzzing lips
What is buzzing lips?
500
A pitched drum, comes in different sizes, looks like a kettle, that makes dramatic sounds in the orchestra (think "hunters" from Peter and the Wolf)
What is the tympani (or kettledrum)?
500
He composed Peter and the Wolf to teach kids about the instruments and their sounds