What is the largest family of instruments in the orchestra?
The string family
100
What kind of vibration do the string family of instruments use to make sound?
String vibration.
100
As an audience member, what should you do when the lights dim in the concert hall?
Stop talking and get ready for the performance to begin.
100
What instrument(s) represents Ivan the cat?
The clarinet
100
What is the piece that goes on your mouth to play a brass instrument called?
Mouthpiece
200
Two families of instruments make up the "wind family". What are those two families?
Woodwinds and Brass
200
What are the two types of vibration used by woodwind instruments?
Wind and reed vibration.
200
What is the job of the conductor of the orchestra?
To keep musicians together when they play, point to the musicians when it is their turn to play, tell the musicians how loud/soft or fast/slow they should play.
200
What instrument(s) represents Peter?
Strings or string quartet.
200
What two types of material are used to make a bow for the string instruments?
Wood and horse hair.
300
What is the family of instruments with membranophones and idiophones?
Percussion family
300
What kind of vibration do the brass family use?
Lip vibration
300
When should you clap during an orchestra performance?
When the conductor turns around.
300
What instrument(s) represents Grand-papa?
The bassoon.
300
What is the sticky stuff that is put on a string player's bow called?
Rosin
400
What instrument can be part of two families? Which two families Why?
Piano-strings
Percussion-hammers hit strings
400
What two types of vibration do the percussion family use?
Struck or shaken
400
What does it mean when the conductor points at a specific person AFTER the performance. (the narrator in Peter in the Wolf)
That the audience should clap for her for a job well done
400
What instrument(s) in the live performance represent the Wolf?
The French horns
400
Why is the saxophone not usually seen in an orchestra?