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 Minimalism? | Music that uses minimal material and is based on simple rhythmic and melodic figures which are constantly repeated with slight changes each time | 2. What is Musique Concrete? | Recorded sounds of everyday sounds such as bins, cars or brushes. Sounds are rearranges by changing the speed or playing backwards to make musical patterns. | 3. What is Improvisation? | One of the most defining elements of jazz. Spontaneous melodic lines that are made up during a performance. | 4. What is a Musical? | A plat which has speaking, singing and dancing and is performed on a stage. | 5. What is a WHOLE TONE SCALE? | A type of scale used by Impressionist composers like Debussy. | 6. We like to create Impressionist music. Who am I? | Debussy and Ravel | 7. What is Jazz Funk? | A combination of jazz improvisation and the amplified instruments and character of rock. | 8. What are note clusters? | Notes which seem to clash when sounded together | 9. Various contrasting rhythms played at the same time, what am I? | Cross Rhythms | 10. I move in semitones, what am I? | Chromatic | 11. I am a style of music which developed in Southern America in the 1960s. I am a combination of blues and gospel, who am I? | Soul music | 12. I am an ornament which sounds like a crushed note played very quickly on or before the beat, what am I | Acciaccatura | 13. Small group of soloists in the Concerto Grosso, what am I? | Concertino | 14. I like to be in a minor key all the way till the end, then I change to a major, what am I? | Tierce de Picardie | 15. I am a musical but I like to sing a lot so I don't speak at all? | Les Misérables | 16. What is coloratura? | Florid, vocal singing involving scales and runs and ornaments. | 17. I am a Major Key signature with 1 flat, what am I? | F major | 18. Vocal music which follows the rhythms of speech, what am I? | Recitative | 19. Often in modern music, time signatures such as 5/4 or 7/8, what am I? | Irregular Time Signatures | 20. We like to sing soul music, who are we? | Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Stevie Wonder | 21. We both like to create minimalist music, who are we? | Steve Reich and Philip Glass | 22. We like to create music with everyday sounds, who are we? | Stockhausen and Boulez |
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We like to create Impressionist music. Who am I?&choe=UTF-8
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What is Jazz Funk?&choe=UTF-8
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Various contrasting rhythms played at the same time, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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I move in semitones, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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I am a style of music which developed in Southern America in the 1960s. I am a combination of blues and gospel, who am I?&choe=UTF-8
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I am an ornament which sounds like a crushed note played very quickly on or before the beat, what am I&choe=UTF-8
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Small group of soloists in the Concerto Grosso, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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I like to be in a minor key all the way till the end, then I change to a major, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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I am a musical but I like to sing a lot so I don't speak at all?&choe=UTF-8
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What is coloratura?&choe=UTF-8
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I am a Major Key signature with 1 flat, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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Vocal music which follows the rhythms of speech, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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Often in modern music, time signatures such as 5/4 or 7/8, what am I?&choe=UTF-8
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We like to sing soul music, who are we?&choe=UTF-8
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We both like to create minimalist music, who are we?&choe=UTF-8
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We like to create music with everyday sounds, who are we?&choe=UTF-8
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