COMPOSERS
MUSIC NOTES
AMERICAN MUSIC
INSTRUMENTS
MISC.
100
This musician was known as the Ambassador of Jazz
Who was Louis Armstrong?
100
A whole note gets this many beats.
What is 4?
100
Jazz was born in this city.
What is New Orleans?
100
A guitar is a member of this instrument family.
What is string?
100
Name this symbol.
What is a quarter rest?
200
This composer wrote music for movies such as "Star Wars" and "Jaws"
Who is John Williams?
200
This kind of note gets 2 beats.
What is a half note?
200
This place was the epicenter of African American culture (music, writing, etc.) during the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
200
A trumpet is in this instrument family.
What is the brass family?
200
Name this symbol.
What is a treble clef?
300
This composer was known as the King of Ragtime.
Who was Scott Joplin?
300
A quarter rest gets this many beats.
What is 1?
300
This type of 19th century entertainment
in America imitated the stereotypes of
African Americans.
What is the Minstrel Show?
300
The tambourine is in this instrument family.
What is percussion?
300
These are the spaces of the treble clef.
What is: F A C E?
400
This American composer wrote "Fanfare for Common Man" and "Rodeo"
Who was Aaron Copland?
400
This kind of note gets 1/2 a beat.
What is an eighth note?
400
Name one musician from West Virginia.
Who is:
Bill Withers, Michael W. Smith, Kathy Mattea?
400
The clarinet is in this instrument family.
What is woodwind?
400
These are the lines of the treble clef.
What are: E G B D F?
500
This American composer was also a famous conductor and hosted a TV show for kids.
Who was Leonard Bernstein?
500
It takes this many eighth notes to make 1 beat.
What is 2?
500
Name something that inspired protest music to be written.
What is:
Vietnam War, Civil Rights, school shootings?
500
The saxophone is in this instrument family.
What is the woodwind family?
500
The top number of the time signature tells this.
What is the number of beats per measure?