Which wood would wind?
Working the woodwinds
International Music Terminology
The Birth of the Blues
100

This small instrument is no longer included in orchestras, but is played in elementary schools across the country.

What is the recorder?

100

Instrument families are usually categorized by something that they have in common (material, playing method, etc.), but the woodwind family is connected because of this.

What is the fact that you have to blow into them to play them?

100

The word piccolo means "small" in this language.

What is Italian?

100

As well as being heard in certain styles of rock n' roll, this small rectangular instrument is frequently used as a main instrument in the blues.

What is the harmonica?

200

This double reed instrument is the largest in a woodwind quintet and is often used to depict silly or awkward sounds, such as a goose.

What is the bassoon?

200

Clarinets and saxophones are examples of woodwind instruments with this type of mouthpiece. (Hint: a type of reed)

What is a single reed?

200
Meaning "expressing a writer's emotion," this word is used in music to mean the words to a song.

What are lyrics?

200

The origins of the blues come from these traditional African-American religious songs.

What are spirituals?

300

This single reed instrument is popularly played by one of the characters in the children's TV show: Spongebob Squarepants.

What is the clarinet?

300

All wind instruments were originally made out of this material before they began to include more modern materials like metal and plastic.

What is wood?

300

This unit measurement which contains four beats makes up one of the 12 in the blues form.

What is a bar?

300
Known for a specific vibe or mood, blues lyrics typically describe these kinds of situations.

What are sad situations?

400

This woodwind instrument, named after the Italian word for small, is the highest playing instrument in the orchestra.

What is the piccolo?
400
This instrument, along with the piccolo is the only instrument in a woodwind quintet that does not use a reed.

What is the flute?

400

The french word "timbre" is used in music to describe this.

What is the quality of the sound?

400

The blues has been called "classical" because it follows a specific form/structure, which is called this.

What is the 12 bar blues?

500

This outsider instrument in the woodwind family has a body that is made out of brass.

What is the saxophone?

500

This type of reed, used by bassoons and oboes, requires many hours of crafting with tools like knives, sand paper, and string.

What is a double reed?
500

This scale acts as the basis for all improvisation in the blues style.

What is the blues scale?

500

This man was known as the father of the blues.

Who is W.C. Handy?

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