The Beginning
The word "orchestra" was first used with whom?
Who are the Greeks?
How many instrument families are there?
What is four?
What does "pianissimo mean?
What is very soft?
Which German baroque composer had 20 children?
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
An orchestra from Indonesia is called?
What is Gamelan?
Who is the Conductor and/or Maestro?
What side of the stage do the violins sit when playing in an orchestra? (from the view of the audience)
What is the left side?
What does decrescendo mean?
What is gradually getting softer?
Which composer wrote the opera, "The Magic Flute", "Marriage of Figaro", and Don Giovanni?
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This band from Mexico typically uses violins, guitars, trumpets, and singers. What is the name of the band?
What is Mariachi?
What musical era is attributed to starting the orchestra?
What is the Baroque era?
The English horn is a woodwind instrument? (true or false)
What is true?
To play a song "legato" means?
What is play smoothly?
Which composer wrote many of his works while being completely deaf?
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
What is the name of the Japanese instrument that is a long wooden box, has thirteen strings, is played on the floor, and the strings are plucked?
What is the Koto?
Louis XIV had his own private orchestra. What country did he rule?
What is France?
What must a brass player do to their lips to produce a sound on their instrument?
What is buzzing?
If a song is given the tempo "largo", what does it mean?
What is slow and/or stately?
The "Nutcracker", "Swan Lake", and "Sleeping Beauty" were written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Where was he from?
What is Russia?
What is a traditional Aborigine instrument from Australia made from a hollow eucalyptus tree called?
What is a Didgeridu?
Jean-Baptiste Lully is famous for hitting what body part, and eventually dying from an infection?
What is the foot?
What are three ways to play a percussion instrument?
What is strike, shake, or scrap?
What does "appasionato" mean?
What is with passion?
Who wrote the "Cowboy Ballets"?
Who is Aaron Copland?
Castanets are two small hollowed-out pieces of wood, clacked together. What country are they from?
What is Spain?