Italian Words
What is the word we use for fast?
Allegro
What group of people composed and sang a single melodic line unaccompanied during the Middle Ages.
Monks (monophonic)
What is the name of a tune which represents a melodic Perfect 4th (P4)?
Wedding March
What is the name for the space between the bar lines?
Measure
How many keys on a piano keyboard?
88 Keys
What is the word we use for passing the sound smoothly form one finger to the next?
Legato
When he was 15 years old, he walked 200 miles on foot to take up a free educational place at the Michaelisschule.
Johann Sebastian Bach
When J.S. Bach was 15 years-old, he walked two hundred miles on foot to the town of Luneburg. There he attended school and became a member of the church choir. When his voice changed, he studied violin, and soon became interested in the organ and decided to pursue church music.
What is the name of a tune which represents a third interval?
Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
What is the name of a single vertical line used to divide a musical staff into measures.
Bar line
Hammer
Used in part of the action to strike a string or strings to cause a sound.
What is the word we use for playing soft?
Piano
He composed a five string quartet completely deaf.
Ludwig van Beethoven
What is the name of a tune which represents a minor 3rd?
Lullaby
Two bar lines in a music score.
Double bar line
Fallboard
Keyboard cover or keylid is the part of the case that folds down to protect the keys when the piano is not in use.
What is the word we use for playing the note loud.
Forte
Who wrote the tune to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a set of variations of the tune for piano.
The complete work was 1785 and was described as a variations on "Ah, vous diary-je, Maman," a French folk song that was popular at the time.
"Jane Taylor, an English author, wrote the poem Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Sometime later the poem was set to the melody of "Ah, vous diary-je, Maman in 1838."
Did Mozart Write "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?" by John M. Cunningham
What is the name of a tune which represents a Perfect 5th (P5)?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
How many beats per measure does the time signature 4/4 have?
Four beats per measure
Action
The "action" is the mechanism inside a piano that transforms the player's touch on a key into a hammer strike that produces musical sound.
Step by step: When you press a key on the piano it causes a small hammer inside the piano to hit a string or strings. Each key is connected to its own hammer or hammers which hit a specific string or number of strings. When the hammer hits a string, it vibrates and makes a sound that is tuned to a specific note.
What is the symbol name of a curved line which connects several different notes?
Slur
He was a polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote mainly for solo piano. He was a leading musician of his era, "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
Frederic Chopin
What is the name of the tune which represents a 6th interval?
What is the name of the tune which represents a 7th interval?
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (or door bell sound)
(Over the Rainbow)
How many beats per measure does a dotted half note have?
Three beats
Damper Pedal
When a finger is taken away from a key, a "damper" pad stops the note from ringing out. The sustain pedal removes the dampers from the strings, allowing notes to ring out for longer, even when the keys are not held down anymore. That's why it is also called the "damper" pedal.