Musical Alphabet
This is the first letter in the musical alphabet?
What is the letter A?
Which instrument family is the Voice apart of?
The Voice is its own instrument family.
This percussion instrument has Drums and Cymbals attached.
What is a drum set?
This family of instruments includes the triangle, the xylophone and drums.
What is the percussion family?
A musical staff has how many lines?
5 lines
This is the second letter in the musical alphabet.
What is the letter B?
A choir could contain four part harmony. What are the names of the typical two female sections?
What are Sopranos and Altos.
Sometimes, if a choir could contain the following for female voices.
Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, and Altos.
The highest voice of the string family, it has 4 strings, and uses bow.
What is a Violin?
This family of instruments includes flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophones, and bassoon.
What is the Woodwind family?
A musical staff has how many spaces?
4 spaces
This is the third letter in the musical alphabet.
What is the letter C?
A choir could contain four part harmony. What are the names of the typical two male sections.
Tenors and Bass.
Sometimes, if a choir could contain the following for male voices.
Alto, Tenor, Baritone, and then Bass
A brass instrument with 3 valves. It is the highest voice in the family.
What is a trumpet?
The electric guitar, violin, cello, viola and bass is part of this family of instruments.
What is the string family?
When reading the staff, do you count/read from the bottom of the staff or from the top?
The from Bottom of the staff.
How many notes are in an octave?
8 notes are in an octave.
A musical has to contain what 3 things to be called a musical?
Singing, Acting, and Dancing.
This shiny metal woodwind instrument has holes and keys that you put your fingers over. You blow across the hole to make sound.
What is a Flute?
This instrument family includes Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone, French Horn, and Tuba.
What is the Brass family?
This staff is the higher of the two staffs we would discuss in class. If reading the piano, this staff would be played with the right hand. If in choir, this staff would be read by the female voices.
The Treble Clef
How many letters are there in the musical alphabet?
7 letters
What are all the solfege syllables in a scale. Hint: Starts with Do, re, mi...
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do
This giant wood string instrument has a very low sound, 4 strings, and is played by either plucking or bowing it.
What is a Bass?
The piano is apart of which instrument family.
The percussion family
This staff is the lower of the two staffs we would discuss in class. If reading the piano, this staff would be played with the left hand. If in choir, this staff would be read by the male voices.
The Bass Clef