Name that Instrument
Music Periods
Mixed Bag!
Instrument Families
Music Terms
100
An instrument from the Baroque period that predates the piano; a string instrument.
What is a Harpsichord?
100
Vivaldi, Bach, Handel
What is Composers from the Baroque Period?
100
An aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.
What is a Flute?
100
As the largest drum in the orchestra, the Bass Drum belongs to this Instrument Family.
What is Percussion?
100
The loudness or softness of a musical composition.
What is Dynamics?
200
A percussion instrument; Thin, normally round plates of various alloys, they are hit against each other.
What is Cymbals?
200
Mozart & Beethoven
What is Composers from the Classical Music Period?
200
The highest pitch instrument in the string family.
What is the Violin?
200
Bassoon
What is Woodwinds?
200
The speed; How fast or slow
What is Tempo?
300
A percussion instrument that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
What is a Xylophone?
300
Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Verdi, Bizet & Chopin
What is Composers from the Romantic Music Period?
300
Music played by instruments only.
What is Instrumental?
300
Timpani
What is the Percussion Family?
300
The quality of sound; tone color
What is Timbre?
400
A percussion instrument properly known as the Tumbadora.
What is a Conga?
400
Before the Romantic Music Period.
What is Classical Music Period?
400
The names of the Orchestral Families?
What is Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion, (Keyboards)
400
Oboe
What is Woodwinds?
400
The lack of harmony in a group of notes.
What is Dissonance?
500
It is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument in which sound is produced by vibrating or buzzing the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece.
What is a Tuba?
500
Follows the Medieval Music Period.
What is Renaissance?
500
Absence of tension in music.
What is Consonance?
500
Cello
What is Strings?
500
The primary theme or subject developed in a musical composition.
What is Motive?