Solfège & Sight-Reading
The solfège that starts every scale. Feels like home base within major keys.
What is Do?
If the time signature shows 4/4, there are _____ beats per measure.
What is Four Beats?
This voice-part, usually sung by women, is the highest section of singing in a typical choral ensemble.
What are Sopranos?
A pair of eighth notes receives ______ beats.
What is One Beat?
To start each choir class and engage our voices and minds, we always start by singing these.
What are Warm-Ups?
Whenever we sight-read, we physically show ______ to Mr. June and Mrs. Surillo.
What is Handsigns?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This dynamic marking is used to mark loud sections of music. Marked in music as f.
What is Forte?
This term is used for when we are speaking our music in rhythm, but without pitch.
What is Chanting?
This musical scale is often defined as being "sad" or "melancholic".
What is a Minor Scale?
This song we sang had text about "love and laughter lighting your day".
What is May A Rainbow?
When we Sightread, in order to keep a steady beat, we ______ our hand signs.
What is Pulse?
This musical idea, usually marked with a symbol containing two, outwardly expanding lines, tells us to increase our dynamic volume.
What is Crescendo?
This is the word used for practicing our music in our head. Thinking, but not audibly singing.
What is Audiate?
In this Key Signature, there are no sharps or flats.
What is C Major?
This warm-up features a bouncy melody and made up words. We usually sing it with a dance.
What is Zing-Bing-A-Ring?
These three solfège syllables make up the major tonic triad in which we use to set our key before sightreading.
What is Do, Mi, & Sol?
At the beginning of every song, these two "signatures" help us understand our pitches and meter.
What is the Key Signature & Time Signature
This is what we call it when everyone is singing the exact same notes and rhythms.
What is Unison?
This is the slowest tempo.
What is Largo?
FORTE, the pop-choir at Pearce HS, is having their show on these dates and times.
What is Today & Tomorrow at 7:30Pm?
We always read in the key of _______.
What is F Major?
This musical symbol shows singers to hold out a note until directed to stop.
What is a Fermata?
This term is used for a section of music that repeats a rhythmic or melodic pattern. Also known as a round.
What is a Canon?
If I began on a C, and was asked to skip to the next space, what note would I be on? Answer with the note name, not solfège.
What is E?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Name one of the four composers of our songs without looking.
Who are Brad Green, Andy Beck, Greg Giplin, or Mary Lynn Lightfoot?