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This is the highest-pitched instrument of the string family.
What is the violin?
100
This is the Italian word for "loud" or "strong".
What is forte?
100
This is the higher female voice.
What is soprano?
100
This is the Italian word for "very loud".
What is fortissimo?
100
This is where music notes are written.
What is the staff?
200
This is the word for plucking a stringed instruments, instead of using the bow.
What is pizzicato?
200
All of the instruments in this family have cup-shaped mouthpieces.
What is the brass family?
200
This is the lower female voice.
What is alto?
200
This term means the speed of the music.
What is tempo?
200
This part of a song tells us how many beats must be in each measure.
What is the time signature?
300
This instrument uses a double reed.
What is an oboe? (Bassoon or English Horn also correct)
300
This is another name for a flute player.
What is a flautist?
300
A trombone is different from other instruments in its family, because it has this:
What is a slide?
300
What Italian word means to gradually get louder?
What is crescendo?
300
This is the clef used when writing high pitches.
What is treble clef?
400
The saxophone belongs to this family.
What is the woodwind family?
400
This is the number of keys on a standard piano.
What is 88?
400
This is an example of a non-pitched percussion instrument.
What is (many possible answers: Judge Harrington will make a ruling).
400
This symbol causes a note to be played one half step higher.
What is a sharp sign? (#)
400
This is the space between two bar lines.
What is a measure?
500
This is how you change pitches when playing a flute.
What is open or close different holes?
500
This is a pitched percussion instrument.
What is a xylophone (marimba, vibraphone)
500
This is what SATB stand for in Choir music.
What is Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass.
500
This was a very fancy time!
What is the Baroque Period?
500
This is what it is called when a person makes up the music "on the spot".
What is improvisation?