Instrument Families
Composers
Notation
Music Staff
Fun Facts
100
Oboe
What is the woodwind family?
100
This composer composed some of his greatest music after he went deaf
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
100
This note is held for one beat
What is a quarter note?
100
The foundation where the notes are drawn
What is the staff?
100
This changes and mimics whatever music you're listening to
What is your heartbeat?
200
French Horn
What is the brass family?
200
This composer was a child prodigy composing his first piece at the age of 5 and his first opera when he was 12
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
200
This note is held for two beats
What is a half note?
200
These assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces
What are the Treble and Bass clefs?
200
By listening to music these grow faster
What are flowers?
300
Snare Drum
What is the percussion family?
300
This composers parents sent him to law school instead of continuing his excellent piano skills because music wasn't an "acceptable profession"
Who is Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
300
This tells us what type of note gets the beat and how many beats are in each measure
What is the time signature?
300
These give extra space when we run out of room on the staff
What are ledger lines?
300
This can raise your IQ up to five points
What is playing an instrument?
400
Cello
What is the string family?
400
This composer lived throughout the Romantic period and expressed his love for his homeland, Poland, and his actual heart is kept there in an urn
Who is Frederic Chopin?
400
The rest that resembles a man's hat sitting correctly
What is a half rest?
400
When the two staffs come together to create a bigger one
What is the Grand Staff?
400
The chills you get while listening to your favorite band or piece of music is called
What is musical frisson?
500
Harp
What is the string family?
500
This composers parents both died before he was 10 years old and he was raised by his organ playing older brother, who taught him much and his works weren't known until 100 years after his death
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
500
The rest that resembles a man's hat tipping to someone
What is a whole rest?
500
The note that connects both clefs in the grand staff
What is the middle C?
500
This exercises your heart, lungs and releases endorphins making you feel good
What is singing?