Instruments
Another name for a violin, usually used in a country/bluegrass setting.
What is a fiddle?
This composer wrote the "New World" Symphony
Who is Antonín Dvořák?
A "wonder"ful song that is played frequently during MASTA camp meals.
Who is Harvey the Wonder Hamster?
Term for moving your hand up and/or down the fingerboard to different positions.
What is shifting?
This was the Wednesday night activity.
What is a staff concert?
The only standard instrument in a symphony that uses a clef no other instrument uses.
What is a viola?
This composer wrote Ode to Joy.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Which Michael Jackson album is the highest selling album of all time?
A marking indicating that a note should be shorter and separated from those around it.
What is staccato.
Term used for cabin that cleans up after meals.
What are hoppers?
The only standard orchestral instrument that is not a part of the violin family.
What is a double bass?
This composer wrote the music for the first three Harry Potter movies.
Who is John Williams?
This piece is very famous and was composed by Beethoven.
What is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?
A symbol used to instruct the performer to hold a note longer than its given duration.
What is a fermata?
This is what Mrs. Stuart calls pencils during rehearsals.
What are your futures?
This instrument is the closest out of them all to a human voice.
What is a cello?
This composer wrote the music for The Nutcracker.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
This piece by George Gershwin was performed at the staff concert (it has car horns in it).
What is American in Paris?
A tempo marking meaning quick, lively, or joyous.
What is Allegro?
This is how many years MASTA Camp has been around.
What is 53 years?
This section's instruments can be played with a bow.
What is a percussion section?
This composer wrote a series of six unaccompanied suites for the cello.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This piece is based off of the fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
A marking that tells the performer to "steal time".
What is Rubato?
This is what MASTA stands for.
What is the Michigan Chapter of the American String Teachers Association?