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Instrument Families
100
Who is the person who leads musical groups?

Conductor

100

What are the 5 lines and 4 spaces for writing music?

Staff

100

What is the steady heart of music?

Beat

100

What does Repeat mean?

Echo, do it again.

100
How many families of instruments are there?

4

200

Who creates or writes the music for others to perform?

Composer

200

What are the made up words Do, Re, Mi for singing?

solfege

200

What is the music word for volume?

Dynamics

200

What is the scientific word for how sounds moves through the air?

Vibration

200

Which family has the viola?

Strings

300

What is a group of people singing together called?

Choir

300

What sound do we say for rests?

Shh

300

What is the Music word for speed?

Tempo

300

What is the category or type of music?

the Genre

300

Which family has the oboe?

Woodwind

400

What is the group of instruments in 4 families?

Orchestra

400

What is the pattern of notes and rests?

Rhythm 

400

What is the music word for slow?

Largo

400

What is a group of instruments that have something in common?

Family

400

Which family has the trumpet?

Brass
500

Whose job is it to listen to a performance?

Audience

500

What is the special little line for Do?

Ledger Line

500

What is the music word for loud?

Forte

500

What is the word for how high or low a sound is?

Pitch

500
Which family has the drums?

Percussion