John Williams!
John Williams is famous for this type of music.
What is film music?
What are film scores?
Movies that did NOT have recorded spoken dialogue or recorded music were called by this name.
What are silent movies?
This group of instruments makes a sound by striking an instrument with a stick or mallet.
What is percussion?
This symbol means to "play for one beat".
What is a quarter note?
This smash-hit musical paired two things you wouldn't expect to see together: the Founding Fathers and Hip-Hop.
What is Hamilton?
This famous film score makes everyone on planet earth think of sharks, and it only takes two notes!
What is "Jaws"?
This genre of music "foreshadowed" movie soundtracks.
What is opera?
This group of instruments makes a sound with either a vibrating reed or by blowing air across an embouchure hole.
What is a woodwind?
This symbol means to "go back".
What is a repeat sign?
The NHS Drama Club produced this classic musical last school year.
What is "The Wizard of Oz"?
This famous film score depicts a lovable alien who can make bicycles fly.
What is "E.T."?
This conflict was a big reason that many European composers ended up in California writing film scores.
What is World War II?
This is the only band or orchestra instrument that reads alto clef the overwhelming majority of the time.
What is the Viola?
This marking describes how loudly or quietly to play or sing.
What is a dynamic marking?
The Iroquois Drama Club will be producing this musical next school year.
What is The Little Mermaid?
John Williams has collaborated with this legendary director 30 times since the 1970's.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
This electronic instrument revolutionized movie scores, capable creating both music and sound effects.
What is a synthesizer?
This ensemble is created by combining many of the band instruments with the orchestral string instruments.
What is the symphony orchestra?
When you get to one of these markings, you hold your note until the conductor cuts it off.
What is a fermata?
This adaptation of the Greek "Orpheus in the Underworld" myth won the Tony Award for "Best Musical" in 2019
What is Hadestown?
Before he was a film composer, John Williams was this kind of musician.
What is a jazz pianist?
What is a pianist?
This musical technique is the association of a theme or motif with a particular character, place, object, or idea in an opera or film.
What is a "Leitmotif"?
This instrument is the lowest-playing woodwind instrument.
What is a contrabassoon?
This marking means "the sign" in Italian
What is "Dal Segno"?
This musical won the 2026 Tony award for "Best Musical".
What is "Schmigadoon"?