Wind Instruments
String Instruments
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
Percussion Instruments
100
What is the trombone?
100
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What is a cello?
100
The volume and strength of instruments in an ensemble compared to the volume and strengths of other instruments
What is Balance?
100
Type of playing in which musicians create music spontaneously in the moment so that when a piece of music is played, it is different each time
Improvisation
100
What is the bass drum?
200
What is a clarinet?
200
What is the violin?
200
The density and complexity of music determined by the presence of melodies and backgrounds or the absence of melodies and backgrounds.
What is Texture?
200
Style of music that has its origins in African American work songs and spirituals in the Southern United States, often incorporating call-and-response and solos from individual musicians.
What is jazz?
200
What is the snare drum?
300
What is a french horn (or "horn")?
300
What is the bass?
300
A piece of music with one main melody line and no accompaniment
What is a Monophonic Texture?
300
What is The Scream?
300
What are crash cymbals?
400
What is a bassoon?
400
What is a viola?
400
A piece of music with one main melody line and background or harmony parts
What is a Homophonic Texture?
400
The movie that "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" was used in to create a mood of suspense and fear
What is "The Shining?"
400
What is the timpani?
500
What is the oboe?
500
What is a harp?
500
A piece of music with multiple interweaving melodies playing at the same time with similar strength and volume
What is a Polyphonic Texture?
500
Name of this song by Duke Ellington (Mr. Moyer will play it!)
What is "Take the A Train?"
500
What is a marimba?