How to Listen
This comes in different sizes and helps us understand the music that we hear.
What is repetition?
The largest instrument family, which creates sound by hitting, scraping, or shaking.
What is percussion?
This finger is also called finger 1.
What is the thumb?
The words to a song.
What are lyrics?
Background music in a movie is called this.
What is underscoring?
The smallest unit that can be repeated.
What is a sound?
The french horn is an example from this family of instruments.
What is brass?
The piano reads music in both of these clefs.
What are treble and bass?
This tells how many beats are in each measure.
What is meter/time signature?
A recurring musical idea.
What is a motif?
A musical sentence.
What is a phrase?
The piano is a member of both of these families.
What are string and percussion?
On the piano, this hand usually plays the melody.
What is the right hand?
The lyrics of a song must match this.
What is rhythm?
The volume of the music.
What is dynamics?
A group of phrases, like a musical paragraph.
What is a theme?
In Peter and the Wolf, the bird is played by this instrument.
What is the flute?
These keys are used for sharp and flat notes.
What are the black keys?
When describing musical form, sections of music are labeled with these.
What are letters?
This composer wrote the music for Jaws, E.T., and Star Wars, as well as several other well-known movies.
Who is John Williams?
Smaller than a phrase, but longer than a sound.
What is a motif?
In Peter and the Wolf, the grandfather is played by this instrument.
What is the bassoon?
This note is located just to the left of the group of 2 black keys.
What is C?
This type of rhythm could be used for a 4 syllable word that fits into one beat.
What are sixteenth notes?
This element of music can be described as thin or thick, depending on how many different musical ideas are happening at once.
What is texture?