Instruments
The smallest stringed instrument in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
This is the term we use for when music sounds loud or strong.
What is forte?
This term tells you to use the bow.
What is arco?
The D major scale has this many sharps.
What is two?
This is what we call orchestra music from the 1700s.
What is Classical?
The stringed instruments of the orchestra are usually played with this.
What is a bow?
This is the term we use for when we pluck the strings with our fingers.
What is arco?
This term refers to the speed of the beat in music.
What is tempo?
On all of our instruments, we usually play the note E on the D string with this finger.
What is the first finger?
Give some of the other names for the double bass.
Upright bass, string bass, contrabass, bull fiddle, bass fiddle
The lowest string on the double bass.
What is the E string?
This is the term we use for notes that are short and separated.
What is staccato?
This refers to when we play multiple different notes in one bow stroke.
The G major scale has this many sharps.
What is one?
This is an American style of music that uses fiddles, guitar, banjo, and double bass.
What is Bluegrass?
Cellos and basses have an endpin. Violins and violas have this.
What is the end button?
This is the term we use for when music gets louder.
What is crescendo?
This is the term we use for when music gets softer.
What is decrescendo/diminuendo?
This symbol looks like a hashtag or number sign.
What is the sharp symbol?
This German composer wrote some of his most well-known pieces after losing his hearing.
Who is Beethoven?
This stringed instrument with 47 strings is only sometimes used in orchestra.
What is the harp?
The language that most of our musical terms come from.
What is Italian?
Notes that are smooth and connected.
What is legato?
This is the sixth note of the D major scale.
What is B?
A very famous Austrian composer who was considered a child prodigy in the 1700s.
Who is Mozart?
The strings on stringed instruments used to mainly be main of this.
What is sheep gut?
This refers to when we play multiple notes in one bow stroke.
What is a slur?
This appears at the beginning of a piece of music and tells you which notes will be sharp or flat.
What is the key signature?
The C Major scale has this many sharps.
The famous composer Bach played this instrument in orchestra.
What is the viola?