Instruments of the Orchestra
The violin, viola, cello and double bass belong to this family.
What is the string family?
These five lines and four spaces are where music is written.
What is the staff or stave?
The blues originated with African American communities in this country.
What is the United States?
This person writes the music for a film.
Who is a composer?
Who sings the song 'Mr Brightside'?
The Killers
This woodwind instrument uses a double reed.
What is an oboe?
This symbol at the start of the staff shows the pitch of notes, such as treble or bass.
What is a clef?
This scale, with flattened notes, gives the blues its distinct sound.
What is the blues scale?
He wrote the music for Star Wars, Harry Potter and Jaws.
Who is John Williams?
This is the steady pulse you can tap your foot to.
What is the beat?
This brass instrument is famous for its long slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
What is a scale?
The standard blues chord progression is called this.
What is the 12-bar blues?
This early film era had no recorded dialogue, so musicians played live music in cinemas.
What is the silent film era?
This term describes a repeated musical idea in a pop song, like a catchy guitar or synth pattern.
What is a riff?
This percussion instrument has four tuned drums.
What is the timpani?
These symbols tell you how loud or soft to play.
What are dynamics?
A bass part in 4/4 time in which a note is played on each beat of the bar and which typically moves up and down the scale in small steps.
What is walking bass?
This type of short musical idea represents a character or idea, like Darth Vader’s theme.
What is a leitmotif?
This is the main tune of a pop song, usually sung by the vocalist.
What is the melody?
This small instrument is the highest-pitched woodwind in the orchestra.
What is the piccolo?
The sharps and flats before the time signature.
What is the key signature?
This famous blues guitarist was known as the “King of the Blues.”
Who is B.B. King?
This composer wrote the film score for The Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Who is Hans Zimmer?
These three parts make up a pop band’s “rhythm section.”
What are drums, bass, and guitar/keyboard?