String Instruments
Other Instruments
US Geography
Music Genres
Culture
100

This instrument has a bow, is tucked under the chin, and is played standing up or sitting down.

What is a violin?

100

This instrument is shaped like a box and is played while sitting on it. 

What is a cajon? 

100

This city in Louisiana is considered the heart of Creole culture and is famous for its music, food, and Mardi Gras celebrations.

What is New Orleans?

100

This genre of music tells a story about dramatic events or struggles.

What is a ballad?

100

The migration of people, whether through immigration or emigration, is called this. 

What is diaspora?

200

This instrument can be bowed or plucked and is playing while standing. 

What is a double bass? 

200

What is a washboard? 

200

The intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah is called this

What is the four corners?

200

This genre of music is known for violins and trumpets leading the melody. 

What is mariachi?

200

These people brought religious convictions, crops, animals, diseases, and music to new territories in the American west. 

Who are missionaries?

300

This string instrument does not necessarily use wood and does not have holes in the body. 

What is a banjo? 

300

What is a shekere?

300

This region is characterized by the chain of mountains as seen. 

What is the Appalachian region?

300

This is the best-known form of Tex-Mex music.

What is conjunto?

300

Mexican Americans are also known by this term. 

What are Chicanos?

400

This plucked instrument is smaller than the acoustic guitar and has 8 strings, 4 sets of two strings of the same pitch. 

What is the mandolin? 

400

Play file Instrument 1. This is a free reed wind instrument. 

What is a harmonica?

400

East Los Angeles is predominantly composed of this demographic.

What is Hispanic, Latino/a, or Chicano?

400

This genre is also known as "chicken scratch"?

What is waila?
400

This group of missionaries emphasized music and included vocal and instrumental instruction in their teachings. 

Who are Franciscans?

500

This instrument is also known as a chorded zither. 

What is an autoharp?

500

Play file Instrument 2. This instrument is of German origin. 

What is an accordion?
500

This region is known for the River flowing through it into the Gulf of Mexico.

What is the Mississippi Delta?

500

This genre often features ballads and covers themes such as civil rights. 

What are corridos?

500

These groups are the primary cultural groups in the Four Corners region.

Who are Pueblo and Navajo people?