Instruments
Musical Elements
Rhythm Rhythm, Rhythm
Film Composers and Movie Music
Name That Tune
100

This instrument from Hawaii has 4 strings.

What is a ukulele?

100

This musical element is how loud and soft music is. (Piano and forte)

What are dynamics?

100

This rhythmic value is 4 beats long and looks like a circle.

What is a whole note?

100

This famous film composer wrote scores to Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park, to name a few...

Who is John Williams?

100

This catchy Bruno Mars song about friendship teaches kids their numbers "like 1,2,3."

What is Count on Me?

200

This string instrument replaced the ukulele in the 1950's during the rock and roll era, and has 6 strings.

What is a guitar?

200

This musical element means how fast or slow music is. The speed of the beat.

What is tempo?

200

This rhythmic value is 1 sound and 1 beat.

What is a quarter note?

200

This person creates the sound effects for a film.

What is a foley artist?

200

"Oh say can you see" our national anthem written by Francis Scott Key.

What is The Star Spangled Banner?

300

These rhythmic instruments come pitched and non-pitched, are in the Percussion Family, and are struck by mallets or hands.

What are drums?

300

This musical element includes short and long durations of sound, such as quarter notes and half notes.

What is rhythm?

300
On it's own this note equals 1/2 of a beat- put them together and you get 2 sounds to 1 beat.

What are eighth notes?

300

This word accounts for ALL the music we hear in a movie, including the background music in scenes.

What is a score?

300

Paul McCartney wrote this song after dreaming about his mother who passed, "When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom-"

What is "Let it Be?"

400

This instrument in the Woodwinds Family is popular in jazz music, played with a reed, and made of brass.

What is a saxophone?

400

This element is often the main tune of a song- a series of pitches, high and low. It's also a girl's name!

What is melody?

400

These notes are silent in music, but still equal beats like their counterparts. 

What are rests?

400

This German film composer uses electronic sounds in his movie music, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Lion King.

Who is Hans Zimmerman?

400

"Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me/Mama, just killed a man..." are just some of the lyrics to this iconic song released in 1975.

What is Bohemian Rhapsody?

500

This instrument is both a string instrument and a percussion instrument, and is played by striking 88 keys.

What is a piano?

500

This musical element is the backbone of every song. It never changes, and without it, there wouldn't be music!

What is beat/steady beat?

500

This note is 3 beats long with a little dot friend attached to it's side...

What is a dotted half note?

500

This is one of the only known female film composers as most of them are men.

Who is Rachel Portman?

500

"It was my wedding day, it was our wedding day, we were getting ready and there wasn't a cloud in the sky..."

What is "We Don't Talk About Bruno?"