Grade 6 Music Theory - General Knowledge Lesson 1a:
Reading an Orchestral Score - Exercises
Look at this extract from Mozart's Symphony no. 25 in G minor and answer the questions below.
Move your mouse slowly over the light bulbs (tap on mobile devices) to reveal the answers.
- How many types of woodwind instrument are playing in this extract?
- How many oboe players are there?
- What is the concert pitch of the notes played by the horn in G in bar 5?
- Which two different instruments share a stave? (Give their English names.)
- True or False: The first and second violins play in unison throughout this extract?
- Which orchestral section (family) does not feature in this movement?
- How many systems are there on this page?
- In this extract, the violas are playing: "a deux", "divisi" or "unis."?
- Why does the notated G in bar 9 of the "Corni in G" part have two stems?
- What is "Corni in B" in English?
