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. What is the definition of a Symphony? | Large orchestral work | 2. Give 3 key things you are listening for in music from the Classical period. | Describe Classical music | 3. What is a Pibroch? | Piece for solo bagpipes | 4. I am a very repetitive piece of music, and every time I repeat, something small changes. What am I? | Minimalism | 5. What chords are used in a Perfect Cadence? | V-I | 6. What is the name of a scale in which the only interval used is a tone? | Whole Tone Scale | 7. What is a Grace Note? | Short, crushed note. | 8. Two parts moving in opposite directions. | Contrary motion | 9. What is the name for the string technique where the bow is used? | Arco | 10. What is a trill? | A fast alternation between 2 notes | 11. How would you describe singing where there is more than one note per syllable? | Melismatic | 12. What 2 instruments would you hear most commonly in Indian music? | Sitar & Tabla | 13. What is the Italian term for playing with a mute? | Con Sordino | 14. What is Compound Time and give an example of a time signature in compound time. | When the beat splits into 3. 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 | 15. What is an Alberti Bass and in which style of music is it most commonly found? | Broken chord – 1-5-3-5-1-5-3-5. Classical | 16. What type of voice lies between an Alto and a Soprano? | Mezzo-Soprano | 17. What is Pizzacato? | String technique – plucking | 18. In Scottish music, what is the name of the small harp? | Clarsach | 19. What are the key features of Jazz music? | Walking bass, syncopation, improvisation | 20. How would you describe the texture when all the parts move rhythmically together? | Homophonic | 21. What is the opposite of the answer to the previous question and what does it mean? | Polyphonic, when parts move rhythmically independently | 22. What is Rubato and what period does it appear in? | When the tempo changes throughout. Romantic | 23. What is the difference between Binary and Ternary form? | Binary – AB, Ternary – ABA | 24. What instrument in the woodwind family is higher in pitch than a flute? | Piccolo | 25. What concepts are most commonly associated with Ragtime? | Piano, syncopation, vamp | 26. What is the name for a work where there is an orchestra accompanying a solo instrument? | Concerto | 27. What is a Pedal? | A held or repeated note in the bass | 28. What word describes when a musical idea is repeated by another instrumental part? | Imitation | 29. What is a descant? | In a piece of vocal music, there is a voice above the main melody, singing something different |
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