Early & Medieval Music
This medieval instrument with a rhyming name has a keyboard and a crank.
What is a hurdy-gurdy?
What is a sackbut?
This Classical composer is one of the most famous composers ever and only lived to age 35.
Who is Mozart?
This type of modern musical instrument uses electricity to help produce its sound.
What is an electric/electronic instrument?
This performer was known as "The King of Rock and Roll."
Who is Elvis Presley?
Considered the oldest found instrument in the world, this was found in a cave in Germany.
What is the bone flute?
This Baroque composer had 20 children.
Who is Bach?
This Classical instrument was the first keyboard instrument that could go from soft to loud.
What is the piano or pianoforte?
This modern musical instrument is played without actually touching the instrument and uses radio waves to change the pitch and dynamics.
What is the theremin?
This band was the best known band of the "British Invasion", when music from England became popular in the United States.
Who are the Beatles?
This is a term for music that was for religious purposes, such as church services.
What is sacred music?
This keyboard instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque periods was popular before the piano.
What is the Harpsichord?
Romantic music was called Romantic because it expressed this.
What is emotions?
This John Cage composition was "performed" by the orchestra and conductor standing still for over four minutes.
What is 4'33"?
This song by Bill Haley and the Comets was an early Rock and Roll hit song.
What is Rock around the Clock?
As one of the earliest known composers, this nun was known for her sacred music in the Medieval Period.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This percussion instrument became a part of the orchestra in the Baroque period.
What is the timpani?
This Romantic era composer was married to another composer.
Who is Schumann (Robert or Clara)?
This type of music led to rock n' roll, R & B, and many other kinds of music.
What is the blues?
This Rockabilly, Country, and Rock Singer was known for such songs as "Ring of Fire" and "Walk the Line."
Who is Johnny Cash?
This stringed instrument that is an ancestor of the guitar was found in several Ancient Egyptian Tomb Paintings.
What is the lute?
The word Renaissance literally means this in English.
What is re-birth?
This Classical brass instrument has enough piping in it to be over 12 feet long.
What is the French Horn?
This early form of modern music is also the name of a style of art from the same time.
What is impressionism?
This female singer and guitarist was one of the first people to put electric guitar with blues and gospel music.
Who is Sister Rosetta Tharpe?