Instruments of the Orchestra
The number of instrument families in a traditional American orchestra
What is FOUR?
This is the first recorder song we learn to play as a class.
What is Hot Cross Buns?
The Pine Hill Music room has a window that faces this playground.
What is the BACK playground?
The number of beats in this rhythm pattern:
Ta, Ti-Ti, Tiri-Tiri, Rest
What is FOUR?
This fourth grade teacher at Pine Hill holds a music degree from Wellesley college.
Who is Mrs. Lundquist?
Two instruments usually found in this family are the cello and the harp.
What is the STRING family?
TRUE or FALSE: When playing the recorder, you should put your RIGHT hand on top.
What is a FALSE? You should always use your LEFT hand on top.
True or False: Mrs. Hodge does not have an interactive whiteboard in her classroom.
A “TA” is worth 1 beat.
A “Ti-Ti” is worth 1 beat.
This is value of a "Ta-ah"
What is TWO beats?
This fourth grade teacher, when she was young, dreamed of becoming an astronaut or a crayon maker at the Crayola company.
Who is Ms. Young?
This family uses air to create sound that is blown through a long looped tube.
What is the BRASS family?
One of our fun (and short!) songs we learned was called: Shave and a _______________.
What is Haircut?
Mrs. Hodge uses this large percussion instrument to accompany some of the music lessons.
What is the PIANO?
This rhythm symbol has four sounds but is worth only one beat.
What is at “Tiri-Tiri” or four sixteenth notes?
This is the employee at Pine Hill who works SUPER hard to ensure that the classrooms are clean and that snow is cleared from our school sidewalks.
Who is Mr. Gimblett?
The piano is often thought to belong to these TWO families.
What are the PERCUSSION and the STRING families?
The number of fingers you use to play the note "E" on the recorder (not including the thumb).
What is FIVE?
This is the number of doors in the music room.
What is THREE?
This rhythm symbol has TWO sounds, but is worth only one beat.
What is a "Ti-Ti"?
This fourth grade teacher spent a summer in Costa Rica when she was in high school!
Who Is Mrs. Weiner?
In the percussion family, these are the three ways that you can create a sound.
What are SCRAPE, SHAKE and STRIKE.
This is the name of the opening in the front of the recorder (not the finger holes or the mouthpiece)
What is the WINDOW?
The ukulele rack in the music room holds this many ukuleles.
What is 24?
The term that describes a repeating rhythmic or melodic pattern. Choose one:
1. Macrobeat
2. Syncopation
3. Ostinato
What is an OSTINATO?
This is the decade in which Pine Hill was built.
1. The 1890's
2. The 1950's
3. The 1970's
What are the 1950s? (The main building was built in 1959 with the library being added in the 1970s. The gym and K wing were added in the late 1990s).