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Music Theory
Composers
Orchestra
Piano
Movie composers
100
The number of spaces on a staff.
What is 4?
100
He was a deaf composer.
Who is Beethoven?
100
The number of instrumental music families.
What is 4?
100
How the black keys are grouped.
What are groups of 2 and 3?
100
The composer for the Star Wars movie series.
Who is John Williams?
200
the number of lines on a staff?
What is 5?
200
He wrote the Nutcracker.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
200
The highest member of the brass family.
What is the trumpet?
200
The color key that uses flats and sharps.
What is black?
200
This composer wrote the music for How to Train your Dragon and helped with Kung Fu Panda.
Who is John Powell?
300
The note in the first space.
What is F?
300
He was a famous composer and child prodigy.
Who is Mozart?
300
The second lowest member of the string family. It is played sitting down.
What is the Cello?
300
The letter of the note between the two black keys.
What is D?
300
A person who writes music for movies.
What is a film score composer?
400
The note on the 3rd line.
What is B?
400
A Russian nationalist who wrote A Night on Bald Mountain.
Who is Mussorgsky?
400
Where the string family sits.
What is the front?
400
The hand that plays the melody.
What is your right hand.
400
A musical idea that helps the audience remember a person, place, thing, or event.
What is a theme?
500
a group of notes stacked on top of each other and played at the same time.
What is a chord?
500
A famous composer. We base our music theory rules on his writing.
Who is Bach?
500
The name for how you hold your mouth to play an instrument.
What is an embouchure?
500
The number of keys typically on a piano.
What is 88?
500
Give a well-known example of a piece of movie music we studied in class that uses musical elements to evoke a certain mood.
Example: Jaws music.