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Time Periods
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Instrument Families
Instruments
Name that instrument
100
Bach and Handel were famous composers during this time period. Compositions contained more instruments and were becoming more complex.
What is the BAROQUE period?
100
This composer wrote over 600 pieces of music. If you played on piece after another, it would take 8 days to play them all.
Who is MOZART?
100
This instrument family uses striking, rubbing, and scraping to create sounds and notes.
What is the percussion family?
100
This instrument makes its sound when a stick strikes the tightly stretched material covering a cylinder.
What is a drum?
100
1
What is the flute?
200
Music from this time period usually only had 2 or 3 lines.
What is the RENAISSANCE period?
200
This composer became so focused on his music that he sometimes forgot simple things such as wearing his suspenders.
Who is Brahms?
200
Members of this instrument family have a board full of keys.
What is keyboard family?
200
This instruments pitch is changed when the slide is moved back and forth.
What is the trombone?
200
2
What is the xylophone?
300
This time period has set rules. Popular composers from this time period are Mozart and Beethoven.
What is the CLASSICAL period?
300
This composer had 20 children.
Who is Bach?
300
Members of this family make their noise by forcing air into the instrument with buzzing lips.
What is the brass family?
300
Sound is created from this instrument when air is blown across the hole on top of the mouthpiece, not directly into the mouthpiece.
What is the flute?
300
3
What is the violin?
400
During the medieval time period, this is the type of music that was mainly heard.
What is religious music?
400
This composer went blind later in life, but still composed music by dictation to a friend.
Who is Handel?
400
The panpipes belong to this family.
What is the woodwind family?
400
This string instrument is played while seated and holding the large instrument on the floor infront of you.
What is the cello?
400
4
What is the trumpet?
500
This time period had less rules and encouraged emotion and expression.
What is the ROMANTIC period?
500
This man composed his 9th symphony after he had gone completely deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
500
In the string family, the pitch of the note is determined by these 2 things.
What is the length/size of string and the tightness of the string?
500
This small thin piece of wood vibrates when air is blown into the woodwind instrument.
What is the reed?
500
5
What is the clarinet?