Musical Terms
To gradually get faster in music
What is accelerando?
Single reed, wooden instrument
What is the clarinet?
This family of instruments includes the trumpet, trombone, and tuba.
What is brass?
The original name for the trombone
What is a sacbut?
Composer for movies ET, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars
Who is John Williams?
A term used to indicate a note should be held longer than its notated value
What is a fermata?
You blow across this instrument to make a sound
What is a flute?
This family of instruments includes the snare drum, xylophone, and the marimba
What is percussion?
Early strings were made of this
What are guts? (Sheep/Cat)
The person who directs a band, usually with a baton
Who is the conductor?
Freedom in tempo
A marching tuba
What is a sousaphone?
This family of instruments modifies acoustic sounds, or it produces its own sounds electronically
What are electronic instruments?
This instrument was NOT invented in France...
What is the French Horn?
Mr. Coots plays this instrument
What is the saxophone?
The distance between two pitches
What is an interval?
The little brother to the tuba
What is a Euphonium?
The qualifications to be in the woodwind family
What is it has a reed OR it used to be made of wood?
This instrument was invented by Adolphe Sax
What is the saxophone?
The highest sounding voice in a choir
What is a soprano?
Two identical pitches
What is a unison?
Double reeded instrument that is larger than an oboe
What is a bassoon?
This family creates a sound by plucking or bowing
What is the String family?
This instrument was named after composer John Phillip Sousa
What is the Sousaphone?
A piano has this amount of keys
What is 88?