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Music Jeopardy
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Music History
This classical era composer
wrote over 600 works,
began composing at the
age of 5, and is known for
composing the children’s
song “Twinkle Twinkle,
Little Star.”
Answer: Mozart
This Baroque woodwind
instrument was popular in
Medieval times and is often
played in elementary
school classrooms.
Answer: recorder.
This German composer
wrote music in the
Romantic era and
continued to compose
even after becoming
completely deaf.
Answer: Beethoven
Note Values
This note gets
only one beat in
4/4 time.
Answer: quarter
note.
This keyboard instrument
preceded the piano; sound
is produced by plucking the
strings instead of striking
them. It was widely used in
Renaissance and Baroque
music.
Answer: harpsichord
On Christmas Eve during
WW!, a “Christmas Truce”
occurred in which both
German and American
soldiers ceased fighting and
joined together to sing this
song.
Answer: Silent Night
This song was composed by
George Frederic Handel as
a part of his work, Messiah.
This movement is often
performed around
Christmas time and the
audience stands for its
performance.
Answer: The Hallelujah
Chorus.
This note gets half
of a beat in 4/4
time.
Answer: eighth
note.
This note gets
two beats in 4/4
time.
Musical Symbols
This symbol is
used to notate
pitches in music.
Foreign Terms
This Italian word
means “becoming
gradually slower.”
Answer: the staff.
Answer:
ritardando, or
ritard.
This symbol
means to lower
the note by one
half step.
Answer: half note.
This note gets
three beats in 4/4
time.
Answer: dotted
half note.
This Italian word
means “cheerful,
quick, or fast.”
Note Names
Choose treble or
bass: this note is on
the bottom line of
the staff.
Answer: E or G.
Choose treble or
bass: this note is on
the second space of
the staff.
Answer: allegro.
Answer: flat.
This symbol
means to get
gradually softer.
Answer:
decrescendo.
This symbol
means to play the
notes separated.
Answer: staccato.
This French word
means “the
position and
shape of the
mouth of a wind
player.”
Answer:
embouchure.
This Italian word
means “medium
loud”.
Answer: mezzo
forte.
Answer: A or C.
Choose treble or
bass: this note is on
the top line of the
staff.
Answer: F or A.
Choose treble or
bass: this note is on
the space at the very
top of the staff,
above the fifth line.
Answer: G or B.
This note gets one
and a half beats in
4/4 time.
Answer: dotted
quarter note.
This note gets one
fourth of a beat in
4/4 time. Four of
these fit in one
beat.
Answer: sixteenth
note.
This symbol tells
how many beats
are in a measure
and which note
gets the beat.
Answer: time
signature.
These Italian
words mean “to
return to the
original tempo, or
speed.”
Choose treble or
bass: this note is on
the space at the very
bottom of the staff,
below the first line.
Answer: a tempo.
Answer: D or F.
This symbol
means to hold
the note longer
than the normal
duration, until
the director cuts
you off.
These Italian
words mean that
voices are singing
“without
accompaniment.”
Choose treble or
bass: this note is on
the first ledger line of
the staff.
Answer: fermata.
Answer: C or E.
Answer: a
cappella.