Pitch and Rhythm
Vocabulary
Hill Campus
Our Ensemble
Our Repertoire
100

This rhythmic value receives two beats of sound. 

What is a half note? 
100

This is how you spell out the word that means to pluck your strings instead of playing it arco. 

What is P I Z Z I C A T O ?

100

The orchestra room has 22 of these, all on the north side of the room. 

What are windows? 

100

On weekends, Finn enjoys scrolling on this website. 

What is the NASA website? 

100

This piece of music used the Devil's Tritone repeatedly. 

What is Valse Diabolique? 

200

This is worth half a beat of silence. 

What is an eighth rest? 

200

This material is made from pine sap. 

What is rosin? 

200

The name of this room at Hill literally means 'room of hearing'. 

What is the auditorium? 

200

This student can reach their tongue into their nasal cavity. 

Who is Ayla Blair Moen? 

200

This piece of music featured time signatures that shifted between 5/4 and 4/4 and 2/4 and 6/4. 

What is Promenade and Great Gates of Kiev? 

300
This is another name for the bass clef. 

What is the F clef? (based around the F line). 

300

This is what the 'shoulders' and 'hips' of your instrument are called. 

What are BOUTS? 

300

The color of the front stage curtains in the auditorium and the pencil bin in this room. 

What is red? 

300

Sylvia has a birthmark on her right ___________. 

What is EYE? 

300

This is the first 'real' piece of music we got this year in September - though we never performed it on stage. 

What is Jasmine Flower? 

400

This is another name for the TREBLE CLEF? 

What is the G clef? (based around the G line). 

400

This means 'with the wood', a bowing technique that uses the stick of the bow to make contact with the strings, rather than the string or hair of the bow. 

What is CON LEGNO? 

400

The smell that came from the dirt room. 

What is sulfur, bad penny, old blood? 

400

This student enjoy what the Dollar Tree smells like. 

Who is Jakai Lorenzo Udhe? 

400

This piece of music featured weird glissandos, playing con legno, trills, high E on violin, lowest E on bass, and blowing. 

What is Ride of the Dullahan? 

500

This is another name for the ALTO CLEF. 

What is the C clef? (drawn around the line C). 

500

To go between two different pitches as quickly as possible. 

What is a trill? 

500

Where the basses are kept. 

What are the cubbies? 

500
This student has 1 brother and 8 pets, including a ferret. 

Who is Juliet Quinn Gilchrist? 

500

This piece of music was an Irish song in 6/8, with an easy side and a challenge side. 

What is Irish Washerwoman?