Music Theory
Different Instruments
Music History
Broadway and Soundtracks
Hallauer Facts
100

This Major key signature contains 3 flats.

What is E flat Major?

100

The piano is in this family of instrument.

What is the percussion family?

100

This composer is most well known for his 9th symphony, also known as his Ode to Joy Symphony.

Who is Beethoven?

100

BEWARE! This famous Broadway Musical includes a giant Chandelier falling from the mezzanine in each show. 

What is The Phantom of the Opera?

100

This is Hallauer's go to drink from McDonalds in the morning. 

What is black iced coffee?

200

This is the note you get when you move up two whole steps from E natural. 

What is G sharp?

200

This is the loudest instrument in band.

What is the piccolo?

200

This wind instrument is one of the first instruments to have ever been invented. Roughly from the year 50,000 B.C. 

What is the flute?

200

John Powell is most well known for his work on How To Train Your Dragon, but he also helped compose the music for these extremely popular Dreamwork's movies.

What is Kung Fu Panda?

200

This is your band teacher's name.

Who is Supreme Leader Hallauer?

300

If the time signature is 12/8 then typically each beat is worth this much.

What is a dotted quarter note?

300

A different string and the size, are the key differences between these two instruments.

What is the violin and viola?

300

The beginning of this extremely famous piece was featured in the movie 2001 Space Odyssey. 

What is Sprach Zarathustra?

300

This Broadway Musical is the retelling of an extremely well known movie from 1939, but from the perspective of the movie's villain.

What is Wicked?

300

This is the first instrument Hallauer ever wanted to play.

What is the trombone?j

400

Violin uses treble clef, cello uses bass clef. Instruments like piano, harp, and sometimes marimba use this.

What is a grand staff?

400

Womp womp (but the low version)

What is the trombone?

400

This composer used actual canons in his famous piece "1812 Overture"

Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

400

This movie contains one of John William's most famous film scores featuring a brave and heroic alien from a galaxy far far away.

What is Superman?

400

This is Hallauer's Favorite composer. 

Who is John Powell

500

The notes F, A, C, when played at the same time, create this. 

What is a major chord?

500

This instrument has the largest range in dynamic out of all the instruments.

What is the clarinet?

500

This composer was such a perfectionist, that he took decades to release his first symphony after dozens of drafts and rewrites.

Who is Brahms?

500

Leonard Bernstein despised his composing work in this famous Broadway Musical that has been remade into film twice. 

What is West Side Story?

500
Hallauer went to this High School growing up. 

What is Capital High School?