String Section
The place where the violin and viola are held.
What is the chin and left shoulder?
The instrument that is the jazziest of the section.
What is the saxophone?
The original name of the trombone.
What is the sackbut?
The church bells of the orchestra.
What are the tubular bells?
The original name of the piano.
What is the pianoforte?
The piece of metal that comes out of the bottom of the cello and double bass.
What is the end pin?
The instrument that sounds an entire octave higher than the flute.
What is the piccolo?
The brass instrument also popular in jazz.
What is the trumpet?
The reason that the timpani is the most important percussion instrument.
What is underline chords?
The first keyboard instrument.
What is the organ?
The similar looking instruments of the string section in size order.
What is violin, viola, cello, and double bass?
The instrument that tunes the orchestra.
What is the oboe?
What is the French Horn?
The name of the drum that rattles.
What is the snare drum?
The number of pedals a piano has.
What is 2-3?
Name the open strings of the violin.
What is G, D, A, E?
The clarinet(s) most commonly found in the orchestra.
What is the E-flat clarinet, B-flat clarinet, and bass clarinet?
The instrument used to blend the woodwind and brass sections.
What is the French Horn?
The three sounds the cymbals make and how.
What is... crashing sound by hitting them together/delicate sound by brushing or sweeping/shimmering effect by placing cymbal on a stand.
The instrument that plays at one volume level.
What is the harpsichord?
Besides looking the same, name three similarities of the violin, viola, cello, and double bass are
What is... four strings/tuned with pegs/played by bowing/play by plucking (pizzicato)?
List the instruments without a reed and with a reed.
What is... no reed = flute and piccolo
reed = clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon, contrabassoon
The instrument invented by John Phillip Sousa.
What is the sousaphone?
The Greek meaning of xylophone.
What is "wood" and "sound"?
The reason that the piano is the tool of the composer.
What is composers use the piano to write their music because they can play several notes at once and hear how the music written for different instruments will sound together?