Music Basics & Music for Visual Media
The five lines and four spaces of music.
What is a staff?
This country in South America has the national language of Portuguese, instead of Spanish.
What is Brazil?
This idiophone is made of a dried gourd with a net of beads around it.
What is the shekere?
This aerophone is also known as a penny or tin whistle.
What is a feadóg?
This chordophone from India has two levels of strings.
What is the sitar?
F A C E
What are the treble clef space notes?
This mountain range that runs along the west side of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
A traditional dance from Palestine.
What is the dabke?
The Irish-Gaelic name for the Irish harp.
What is a cláirseach?
Pyongyang
What is the capital city of North Korea?
This composer worked on films such as: Jaws, E.T., and Schindler's List (among many others).
Who is John Williams?
This Andean instrument is a chordophone with a rounded back, making it part of the lute family.
What is a charango?
A jazz style from South Africa.
What is Marabi?
The native peoples from the far north of the countries Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia.
Who are the Sámi?
This style of movie musical is one of the most popular genres of media in India.
What is Bollywood?
This one element separates musicals and traditional operas.
What is spoken dialogue?
This iconic idiophone from the Caribbean region takes many hours to create.
What are steel drums?
The Housa, Igbo, and Yoruba are tribes from this country.
What is Nigeria?
A two stringed chordophone from Siberia.
What is the Morin Khuur?
Xìqǔ
What is Chinese opera?
This musical element tells us how many beats per measure, and what note gets the beat.
What is a time signature?
Vallenato is a music style from this country.
What is Colombia?
The three Abrahamic faiths.
What are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?
Cymru
What is the native name for Wales?
A tuned idiophone of ten gongs from Korea.
What is the Ulla?