Instruments
Tempo
Rhythm Reading
The Science of Sound
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100
Adolphe Sax was an instrument maker most famous for inventing this instrument.
What is the saxophone?
100
Tempo is a measurement of this in music.
What is speed, or how fast/slow it is.
100
Quarter notes, quarter rests, and pairs of eighth notes are all worth this many beats.
What is 1?
100
Sound travels through the air in these.
What are sound waves?
100
These symbols are all types of this.
What are rests?
200
The xylophone is traditionally played with this type of beater.
What are mallets?
200
This tempo marking means a moderate, medium pace.
What is moderato?
200
This is how many quarter notes that would fit in one measure in 4/4 time.
What is 4?
200
Good vibes! Sound is created when something does this.
What is vibrate?
200
This is a percussion instrument made from a thin piece of leather or plastic stretched over a round, hollow frame.
What is a drum?
300
This brass instrument has a slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
300
Tempo is measured in BPM, which stands for this per minute.
What are beats?
300
This kind of note is worth 2 beats.
What is a half note?
300
Despite its name, this device is used to tune instruments, not eat with.
What is a tuning fork?
300
In 3/4 time signature, this is what the 3 stands for.
What is the number of beats in a measure?
400
The mbira is a pitched percussion instrument that can be found all over this continent.
What is Africa?
400
Allegro, Vivace, and Presto are all this type of tempo.
What is fast?
400
This rhythm would sound like this using tas and ti-tis.
What is ta ti-ti ta shh?
400
As instruments get bigger, the sound they produce gets this.
What is lower?
400
A person who writes music, like Beethoven, is called this.
What is a composer?
500
The Tabla, a pair of drums used in Hindustani music, comes from this country.
What is India?
500
This very slow tempo marking means long in Italian.
What is Largo?
500
How many total beats would you find in two measures of 4/4?
What is 8?
500
These folds of skin inside your throat are what rub together to give you your voice.
What are vocal cords?
500
The name of the song Mi Chacra means this in Spanish.
What is my farm?