Instruments
This is a 4-stringed instrument that reads in treble clef.
What is a violin?
This is the most common time signature.
What is 4/4?
This artist created Old Town Road.
Who is Lil Nas X?
This is classified as the most popular genre of music today.
What is hip hop?
This articulation requires a note to be played short and accented.
What is marcato?
This is classified as the largest stringed instrument.
What is a double bass?
This is when two notes have the same pitch but different names.
What is enharmonics?
One of the most famous classical composers who went deaf.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This period of music (c. 1910-1950) abandoned traditional conventions of music.
What is Avant Garde?
This is a famous symphony with the tune Ode to Joy.
What is Beethoven's 9th symphony?
This is a percussion instrument, often used in pairs struck together, is a thin and concave plate.
What is a cymbal?
This minor key is made up of 7 sharps.
What is a# minor?
Artist who composed music for Jaws and Star Wars.
Who is John Williams?
The musical period from c. 1750-1820.
What is the classical period?
This instrument is usually made of brass, is played with a single reed mouthpiece, and is a key instrument in jazz.
What is the saxophone?
This a woodwind instrument that is pitched a fifth lower than the oboe.
What is an english horn?
This is the position in which the 5th of a chord is the lowest note.
What is second inversion?
This composer is known for Swan Lake.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The piece in which Igor Stravinsky pushed traditional music to having more musical possibilities.
What is the Rite of Spring?
This musical style is referred to as “heavy.”
What is pesante?
This is a bowed musical instrument with two strings that originated in China.
What is an erhu?
This chord is made up of Bb, D, and F#.
What is a Bb augmented chord?
Artist who composed music for 9/11 and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.
Who is John Adams?
This time period is when an A was tuned to 415 hertz.
What is the baroque period?
This musical was first performed in 2015 and is written by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek.
What is Dear Evan Hansen?