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 a Sonata? | Solo instrument and piano, or solo piano | 2. What is a tremolando? | String technique – fast repetition of a note | 3. What is an Oratorio? | A story from the bible set to music, like an opera, features recitative, arias, duets, chorus | 4. A style of music which is a song sung in German with piano accompaniment. | Lied | 5. What style of music started around the start of the 20th Century, and features whole tone and chromatic scales? | Impressionism | 6. The name for a style of music which is made of recordings of everyday sounds. | Musique Concrete | 7. Monk Music – Sacred music sung by monks. Monophonic and Modal (also Organum). What am I? | Plainchant | 8. Describe a Mass | Sacred work using set Latin Text | 9. What Instruments are in a string quartet? | Violin x2, Viola, ‘Cello | 10. What is Recitative and what style of music can it be found in? | Have spoken, half sung, used in Opera to move the story along faster | 11. What is the name for music written for a small group of instruments? | Chamber Music | 12. The word used to describe music which is repeated, but gets faster because the note lengths get halved | Diminution | 13. A modern style of music in which Jazz is fused with more modern pop and rock ideas? | Jazz Funk | 14. What is the name for the scale used in early music (Renaissance)? | Mode | 15. What is the relationship between G Major and E Minor? | Relative Major/Minor | 16. The name given for the distance between 2 notes | Interval | 17. The name given to a short note, the same as a grace note | Acciaccatura | 18. What is a mordent? | Note, note below, note | 19. What chords form a Plagal Cadence? | IV-I | 20. What is a Pibroch?(N5) | Solo bagpipe piece | 21. What are Harmonics and what instrument plays them? | High pitched sounds played by string instruments. | 22. An interrupted cadence is form of what chords? | V-vi | 23. When a piece is in a minor key and finishes on a major chord | Tierce de Picardie | 24. What chord is formed of built up minor 3rds? | Dimished 7th | 25. What is Augmentation? | When the note lengths are longer, it gets slower | 26. Describe the form of a piece which goes ABCDEFG | Through Composed | 27. Describe a Concerto Grosso and the concepts associated with it. | Small group of soloists – concertino, larger group of accompanying orchestra – ripieno | 28. What is a Basso Continuo? | Harpsichord and bass instrument like cello or viol, used to fill in the missing harmonies when there were not enough instruments to play all the parts. | 29. What is Ritornello? | The A section which keeps coming back in Rondo form – ABACADA… | 30. What is A Cappella? | Unaccompanied vocal music. | 31. When was the end of the Renaissance period, and what period follow it? | 1600, Baroque | 32. How would you recognise a Pavan and what dance is it usually paired with? | Renaissance dance with 2 beats in a bar, Galliard | 33. How would you recognise a Galliard? | Renaissance dance with 3 beats in a bar | 34. What is a Motet? | Sacred work, Baroque, Latin text but not set. | 35. In what style of Renaissance music would you find a "Fa La La" Refrain? | Ballett | 36. What is a Madrigal? | Renaissance popular music, English, secular | 37. What is an Anthem? | Sacred vocal piece sung in English (English version of a Motet) | 38. Describe what you would hear in a Neo-Classical style piece. | Classical concepts, but made modern by more adventurous instrumentation, harmony, etc | 39. Describe the concepts used in Serialism. | Tone/Note Row, Inversion, Retrograde, Atonality, Chromatic Scale | 40. What is a Chorale? | German Hymn Tune | 41. What is the name for a style of music where the composer writes with strong influences of his/her home country? | Nationalism | 42. Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, Club type rubbishy music is known as...? | Electronic Dance Music | 43. A combination of Jazz and more modern instruments and techniques... | Contemporary Jazz | 44. The name of an ornament which sounds like a leaning note? | Appoggiatura | 45. Describe how a Turn would be played. | Note, note above, note, note below, note. | 46. What is a suspension? | When a note from a chord is carried over to the next one, causing a dissonance, which is then resolved. | 47. What is the interval from B-F? | Tritone | 48. The woodwind are playing in the key of A Major, the Brass are playing in the key of F Major, the Percussionists never know what key they are in, so have chosen D Major on this occasion, and nobody likes the strings so they are not here. What do you hear? | Polytonality | 49. In what style of music is a Note Row found? | Serialism | 50. What is the name for the concept when the music gives the impression of going between duple and triple time? | Hemiola | 51. Describe a Fugue and the concepts found in it | Subject, Countersubject, Answer, Exposition, Stretto, Polyphonic/Contrapuntal | 52. In the Renaissance period, when there are 2 separate choirs at opposite sides of the stage to create a stereo effect. | Antiphonal | 53. Name the interval between C - G | 5th | 54. The name for a group of Lieder played together | Song Cycle | 55. The name for a group of instruments of the same family playing together, like a group of recorders or viols. | Consort | 56. Very high, pure sounding male voice | Counter Tenor | 57. A style of singing in German which is half spoken, half sung | Sprechgesang | 58. In my ensemble are a clarinet, piano and 'cello. What kind of group do I play in? | Piano Trio |
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