Musical Instruments
This woodwind instrument is played by holding it sideways and blowing across the mouthpiece.
What is a flute?
This has 5 lines and 4 spaces to put notes on.
What is a staff?
This type of note receives 1 beat of sound in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter note ?
This is the steady pulse of the music.
What is the beat?
One quarter note plus one half note.
What is 3 beats ?
This instrument is the largest of the brass family.
What is the tuba?
These are the letters in the musical alphabet.
What is ABCDEFG ?
This type of note receives 4 beats of sound in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note ?
This rest looks like a squiggly line.
What is a quarter rest?
One half note plus one whole note.
What is 6 beats ?
This curved instrument is in the woodwind family even though the body is made of brass. It is often featured in jazz music.
What is the saxophone?
This symbol tells musicians that the pitch G is on the 2nd line.
What is a treble clef?
This note receives 2 beats of sound in 4/4 time.
What is a half note ?
This rest appears on top of the second line down from the top of the staff.
What is a half rest?
One whole note divided by one half note.
What is 2 beats ?
This family of instruments can be divided into 2 categories: pitched and unpitched.
What is percussion?
Where the pitches F, A, C, E appear on the staff.
What is spaces?
Two of these notes equal one beat of sound in 4/4 time.
What is an eighth note ?
This rest sits below the middle line of the staff.
What is a whole rest?
1 quarter note plus 2 eighth notes
What is 2 beats?
Brass instruments are played by doing this.
What is lip buzzing?
Where the pitches E, G, B, D, and F appear on the treble staff.
What are lines?
Four of these notes equal one beat of sound in 4/4 time.
What is sixteenth notes ?
This rest looks like a miniature 7.
What is an eighth rest?
One whole note plus 4 sixteenth notes
What is 5 beats?
The oboe and bassoon are both members of which instrument family?
What is the woodwind family?
One eighth note plus 2 sixteenth notes
What is 1 beat?