1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Describe the bass line often featured in Classical music. It was a favourite of Mozart. | Alberti Bass | 2. What is a perfect cadence? | Music sounds finished | 3. What is the name for the scale which only uses intervals of semitones? | Chromatic | 4. What is an Aria? | Song from an Opera. | 5. What is the name for a short passage at the end of a piece of music which brings it nicely to an end? | Coda | 6. Describe the texture which is used to describe a solo instrument and piano accompaniment. | Homophonic | 7. What tempo term means that the tempo is always changing? | Rubato | 8. What is a Bothy Ballad? | Male work song | 9. What is a Glissando? | Musical slide | 10. 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 are all examples of what? | Compound time signatures | 11. What is the name for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra? | Concerto | 12. What is the name for a note or notes played before the main beat of the bar? | Anacrusis | 13. What is a Drone? | Pedal note in bagpipes | 14. What are the 3 key features of Ragtime? | Piano, Vamp accompaniment, Syncopated Melody. | 15. What is the name for a piece of Scottish music which is made up words used to accompany dancing? | Mouth Music | 16. Name the style of music which has accents on beats 2 & 4. | Reggae | 17. Name the Scottish dance which is in simple time, the tempo is moderato and features dotted rhythms and Scotch Snaps. | Strathspey | 18. What is a Scotch Snap? | Short note followed by a long note | 19. What is a Canon? | One part plays the melody, then another follows straight after playing exactly the same thing | 20. Name the 3 female voices in order highest - lowest. | Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Alto | 21. In a Concerto, what is the name for the passage where the orchestra stops and the soloist gets to show off? | Cadenza | 22. What is a Pedal? | A long held, or repeated note in the bass | 23. What is a Vamp? | Bass note - chord etc | 24. What is a trill? | A fast alteration between 2 adjacent notes | 25. What is the proper name for a change of key? | Modulation | 26. What is the Italian term for playing muted? | Con Sordino | 27. What is the word to describe unaccompanied vocal music? | A Cappella | 28. Describe Melismatic. | Vocal music - Many notes per syllable | 29. What is an imperfect cadence? | When the music sounds unfinished | 30. What are the 2 words you could use to describe a texture where there are many parts moving rhythmically independantly? | Polyphonic/Contrapuntal | 31. What is a Pibroch? | Piece for solo bagpipes | 32. Describe Syllabic. | Vocal Music - one note per syllable | 33. Name the scale which sounds dreamy. | Whole Tone Scale | 34. What are the main features on Indian music? | Sitar & Tabla | 35. What is Strophic? | Verse & Chorus form | 36. What are the 2 ways in which you can play string instruments and what do they mean? | Arco - with the bow, Pizzicato - plucking | 37. What is the name for a held or repeated note above the melody? | Inverted pedal | 38. What are the 4 key features of a Waulking song? | Females, Q&A, Beating cloth, Gaelic | 39. What is Contrary Motion? | When 2 parts move in opposite directions. | 40. What is the name for the Scottish dance which is in Compound Time? | Jig |
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