Music History
Music Theory
MHS Orchestra specifics
Instruments!
Italian (but music)
100

A composer who went deaf in his later years.

Who is Beethoven.

100

The interval between two adjacent strings.

What is a perfect 5th?

100

The number of MHS orchestras.

What is 5?

100

The 4 types of instruments typically present in a string orchestra.

What is violin, viola, cello, and bass?

100

An instruction to play softer. Literally means "to decrease"

What is decrescendo?

200
The superstition that a composer would die soon after writing their ninth symphony.

What is the Curse of the Ninth?

200

The smallest musical interval commonly used. 12 are present within an octave

What is a half step?

200

The current MHS orchestra president. (Hint: She's super cool and organizes all the fun things we do)

Who is Tylyn Hutson?

200

A wooden dowel inside of string orchestra instruments that alters the tone quality.

What is a sound post?

200

Italian for "tail", a passage that concludes the piece of music.

What is a coda?

300

A child prodigy born in Austria that would go on to write over 600 pieces of music before dying at 35

Who is Mozart?

300

The duration of a double dotted half note

What is 3 1/2 beats?
300

The name of the very first MHS orchestra fish (RIP)

Who is Bettatoven?

300

A baroque instrument similar to a cello, but with 6 strings, frets, and no endpin. This instrument is present in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

What is a Viola da Gamba?

300

A musical term coming from the Italian phrase that means "in the style of the chapel". Describes music without instrument accompaniment.

What is a capella?

400

This musical period is characterized by long melodies and emotional music. Notable composers of the time include Tchaikovsky and Brahms

What is the Romantic period?

400

The interval between the notes C and B flat

What is a minor 7th?
400

Groups with "very nice concert black" and are sometimes considered "bold and unusual".

Who are the MHS orchestras?

400

An instrument invented in the 20th century that isn't touched in order to produce sound, instead using antennas to detect the position of the player's hands.

What is a theremin?

400

An Italian composer known for his operas such as Turandot and Madame Butterfly.

Who is Puccini?

500

An object used by conductors to keep time before batons were widely used. Jean Baptiste Lully famously used one, only to strike his foot during a performance, get infected by gangrene, and die.

What is a conducting staff/stick?

500

A type of chord that replaces the third of the chord with a perfect fourth or major second.

What is a sus (suspended) chord?

500

Someone who demonstrates "smart and aggressive" teaching.

Who is Mr. Harvick?

500

An instrument that uses a rosined wheel instead of a bow to make sounds. Also known as a wheel fiddle.

What is a Hurdy Gurdy?

500

Means to gradually play faster, literally means "tightening" (it's not accelerando)

What is stringendo