Scales
Keys
Pedagogy
Music History
Music Theory
100
This describes the type of scale that has a "happy" feel

Major

100

This key is known as the "people's key" because it is the simplest

C major
100

This is the term used to describe the pinky in a non-bass bow hold

curled/bent

100

This composer wrote Ode to Joy

Beethoven

100

This is the definition of a chord

Three or more notes played together

200

This describes a scale that has a "sad" feel

Minor

200

This major key has C# as its last sharp

D major

200

This term describes the angle relative to the string in which your bow should move

Perpendicular

200

This Classical era composer composed a theme and variations on "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

W. A. Mozart

200

This is the definition of a clef

A way to organize notes on a staff

300

This is the term for a minor scale with no other alterations, and also describes a note with no accidentals

Natural

300

This key signature could be C major or A minor

empty/nothing

300

A bass player uses every finger EXCEPT this one in their lower positions

3rd finger/ring finger
300

This is the oldest of the keyboard instruments

Organ/pipe organ

300

This term describes a multi-movement composition featuring all four instrument families, popular in the Western Classical tradition

Symphony

400

This term describes a scale that shares a key signature with a major scale.

Relative minor

400

This major key signature uses 1 flat

F major

400

This is the position celli shift to when playing the second octave of the G major scale

4th position

400

This event ended the Classical tradition of Western music, which includes the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Impressionist period

World War I

400

This is another name for simple quadruple meter

4/4

500

This minor scale is different on the way up than on the way down.

Melodic Minor

500

This key signature has D# as its last sharp

E major

500

This type of left-hand technique describes a feather touch to produce much higher notes than otherwise possible

Harmonics
500

Which genre of music was invented by DJ Kool Herc at a block party in 1973?

Hip Hop

500

This is who standardized musical counterpoint composition rules in the 1600's

J.S. Bach