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Music Jeopardy Points 100 200 300 400 500 600 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.