Music Quiz for Kids
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which instrument makes sound mainly when its stretched strings are plucked or strummed?
Trumpet
Guitar
Flute
Drum
2. Which instrument family does a violin belong to?
Brass
Strings
Percussion
Woodwind
3. In the traditional rhyme, where is Humpty Dumpty sitting before his fall?
On a chair
On a horse
On a rooftop
On a wall
4. Three groups sing the same melody, but each group begins at a different time. What type of song are they performing?
A lullaby
A solo
A round
An instrumental
5. One child sings a song alone without instruments or recorded backing music. Which description fits best?
A duet
A cappella singing
An instrumental solo
A drum break
6. In “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” which word is repeated four times after “gently down the stream”?
Merrily
Gently
Twinkle
Row
7. A musician plays the same tune again but performs it much faster. Which part of the music changed?
The tempo
The lyrics
The title
The instrument family
8. At the end of a choir song, the conductor gives a clear closing gesture and everyone becomes silent together. What did the gesture cue?
Sing a new verse
Move to a higher pitch
Change to a faster tempo
Stop the sound together
9. Which words complete this line from “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”: “How I wonder…”?
what you are
where you go
why you shine
when you rise
10. A teacher asks everyone to tap a foot with the song’s regular, steady pulse. What are they tapping?
The lyrics
The harmony
The beat
The verse
11. Where does Old MacDonald live and work in the traditional children’s song?
On a ship
On a farm
In a castle
At a train station
12. A piano player moves from the middle of the keyboard toward the keys on the right. What generally happens to the pitch?
It becomes slower
It becomes lower
It becomes higher
It becomes louder automatically
13. What musical word describes how loud or soft music is performed?
Melody
Pitch
Rhythm
Dynamics
14. A child claps a repeating long-short-short pattern. Which musical element is the child demonstrating?
Lyrics
Dynamics
Rhythm
Harmony
15. A singer performs the melody while other singers hold different notes that sound good with it. What are the other singers creating?
Harmony
Tempo
Silence
A solo
16. In “The Itsy Bitsy Spider,” what washes the spider out?
A rolling wave
A bucket of water
Melting snow
The rain