Music Notation
This note is twice as long as a quarter note
Half note
This Italian word means "soft" in music.
Piano
This composer wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" variations and is famous for composing keyboard music.
Mozart
This family includes violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.
String family
The five horizontal lines and four spaces where notes are written is called the ___.
Staff
The speed of the music is called the ___.
Tempo
This composer wrote The Four Seasons
Vivaldi
This family includes trumpets, trombones, and tubas and makes sound when the player's lip vibration creates the tone.
Brass family
This sign raises a note by one half step.
When two or more notes sound together, it is called a ___.
Chord
He is a famous German composer who wrote many symphonies including the Ninth Symphony with “Ode to Joy.”
Bethoven
Instruments in this family make sound when air vibrates inside them (like flutes and clarinets).
Woodwind family
The pair of vertical lines with two dots that shows a section should be repeated is called a ___ sign.
Repeat
This word means to play gradually louder.
Name a composer from the 20th or 21st century whose music students might hear in film or cartoons.
John Williams
Instruments in this family include the snare drum and bass drum; they are hit or shaken to make sound.
Percussion
Name the clef that shows middle C on the first ledger line below the staff. This clef is often used for higher voices and instruments (like flute, clarinet, and saxophone)
Treble
This means to play the note separated.
Staccato
This composer wrote the music for the movie Tarzan.
Phil Collins
Name one instrument that belongs to the percussion family but can also be part of orchestras or bands.