Interesting Musical Facts and Jokes
Choral Repertoire
Time Signatures/ Key Signatures
Notes and Rhythms
Potpourri
100

Animal that produces more than 100 vocal sounds

What is a cat?

100

Title of this song means "Kite Flying". 

What is "cerf volant"?

100

Key that has no sharps or flats

What is C Major (or A minor)

100

Number of beats when you add up 3 half notes, 2 quarter notes and 8 eighth notes.

What is 12?

100

This means singing with no accompaniment

What is a cappella?

200

Something that helps cows produce more milk

What is listening to slow, soothing music?

A 2001 study by two psychologists at the University of Leicester suggested that cows who listened to slow, soothing songs like "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. and Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," produced 3 percent more milk than a control group. Cows that listened to rap and techno music showed no increase in milk production. When a cow is stressed, it slows down the release of oxytocin, which is crucial for producing milk, so playing music that relaxes them helps them produce more milk.

200

The translation of the title of this song means "Listen".

What is "Oye"?

200

Order of sharps

F C G D A E B
200

12 of this kind of note equals 3 beats

What is a sixteenth note?

200

What we call a song that gets stuck in your head

What is an earworm?

300

None of the people in this famous band could read or write music

Who are the Beatles?

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

Song based on a poem by Christina Rossetti, a Victorian poet.  

What is "Like a Singing Bird"?

300

Number of beats in a measure of 3/4 time.

What is 3?

300

This rest looks like a top hat

What is a half rest?

300

Animal that is much louder than a jet.

What is a blue whale?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

Completed in 2005, the Sea Organ is an architectural sound object which plays music when hit by sea waves through tubes which are located under large marble steps. The steps, which offer both protection and allow tourists and locals a place to sit or stand while listening to the music caused by the wind and sea, were built later in this country

What is Croatia?

400

Jazz song composed by Louis Prima in 1936; most famously recorded by clarinetist Benny Goodman.

What is "Sing, Sing, Sing"?

400

Order of flats

What is B E A D G C F?

400

5 of this kind of note equals 15 beats

What is a dotted half note?

400

A system where every note of a scale is given its own unique syllable, which is used to sing that note every time it appears

What is solfege?

500

A 639-year performance based on avant-garde composer John Cage's "As Slow as Possible" started in September 2001 and is still running at St. Buchard Church in what country

What is Germany?

(The performance by an automated organ progresses so slowly that visitors have to wait months for a chord change, and is scheduled to conclude in 2640. The performance is so slow that the organ it's played on was not even completed before the concert began)

500

Derek Holman wrote this short choral piece about this long reptile

What is "Rattlesnake Skipping Song"?

500

TRIPLE JEOPARDY!!!!!

Major key that has 5 flats

What is D flat major?

500

Note that equals exactly half of a quarter note.

What is an eighth note?

500

Loudest insect in the world

What is a cicada?