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Instrument vocab
Misc.
Instrument Characteristis
100

This instrument is the highest-pitched string instrument.

What is the violin?

100

This instrument family includes the violins and cellos.

What is the string family?

100

The word for the speed in music.

What is tempo?

100

The person who holds the baton and has their back to the audience.

What is the conductor?
100

This instrument has 47 strings.

What is the harp?
200

This instrument is the largest and lowest in the string family.

What is the double bass?

200

This instrument family includes the flutes, oboes and clarinets.

What is the woodwind family?

200

The name of the composer who wrote about the four seasons.

What is Antonio Vivaldi?

200

These instruments that make this sound are placed upstage in the orchestra.

What is loud?

200

These instruments make sound through a double reed.

What is the bassoon and oboe?

300
These instruments in this section or family are made of metal.

What is the brass section or family?

300

This family often keeps the rhythm and includes drums and cymbals.

What is the percussion family? 

300

The term for playing or singing softly.

What is piano?

300

This instrument includes first and second parts.

What is the violin?

300

The two instrument families that make sound by blowing into them.

What are the woodwind and brass families?

400

This orchestra instrument is part of the woodwind family but it is made of metal.

What is the flute.
400

This family includes the trombone.

What is the brass family?

400

The term for singing or playing loudly.

What is forte?

400

The composer who wrote the Young Person's Guide the the Orchestra.

Who is Henry Purcell?

400

The instrument family that makes sound by striking the instrument?

What is percussion?

500

This instrument can be considered part of the percussion or the string family.

What is the harp?

500

This instrument family includes instruments that create sound by vibrating air through a tube without using reeds or valves, like a didgeridoo.

What is the brass family?

500

The term for getting graduly louder. 

What is cresendo?

500

The highest pitched instrument in the woodwind section.

What is the picollo?

500
The job of the percussion family.

What is to keep the beat and play the rhythm?