The Orchestra
Ukulele
Reading Music
Opera
Surprise Me
100
Instruments in the string family use these to produce sound.
What are strings?
100
The ukulele has this many strings.
What is 4?
100
In 4/4 time signature, a measure of music will have this many beats.
What is 4?
100
The first operas borrowed their stories from myths from this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
100
Xylophones are typically played using this type of beater.
What are mallets?
200
The trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba are common instruments in this family, named after the type of metal they are made from.
What are brass instruments?
200
When playing an F major chord with the correct fingering, which fingers are used?
What are your pointer and middle fingers/ finger 1 and 2?
200
A complete major scale, from Do to Do, will have this many notes.
What is eight?
200
Arias are a special type of these, used to express a character's feelings and show off the singer's skills.
What are singing solos?
200
When singing with proper singing posture, you should tilt your chin slightly in this direction.
What is up?
300
Percussion instruments fit into two categories: unpitched percussion, and this.
What is pitched percussion?
300
The chord chart shown is for this chord.
What is C major?
300
When you see this sign at the end of a measure of music, it means to do this.
What is repeat?
300
Traditionally, this voice range would often be cast for villains or other powerful characters due to their deep, booming sound.
What is bass?
300
These are your three options for music classes next year at Drum and Narrowsview.
What are band, choir, and orchestra?
400
Unlike the clarinet, oboe, and bassoon, this high pitched woodwind does not use a reed, and instead requires air blown over a sound hole.
What is the flute?
400
These are sometimes used to pluck or strum the strings on a ukulele.
What are picks?
400
These symbols tell you to briefly stop playing.
What are rests?
400
These two voice ranges, the highest for men and women respectively, are most often used to play the main characters or heroes.
What are tenors and sopranos?
400
Conductor Jean Baptiste Lully died from an infection after accidentally stabbing himself in this body part during a rehearsal.
What is the foot?
500
The person who leads an orchestra, using a baton to keep the beat, is called this.
What is a conductor?
500
Of all of the chords we learned (C major, F major, A minor, G7), this is the only finger we did NOT use.
What is your pinky/finger 4?
500
This note can be found in between the notes G and B.
What is A?
500
This technique is used to perform dialogue by singing.
What is recitative?
500
Baroque, classical, romantic, and modern are the four eras of this type of music.
What is orchestra music?