Choir Commandments & Vocal Pedagogy
Vocabulary
People & Repertoire
Theory Terms
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100

A choir that _____ together, ______ together.

What is Breathes, Sings?

100

Musical term meaning "to slow down"

What is rallentando OR ritardando

100

Composer of In the Heights, Encanto, Moana, Vivo, and Hamilton

Who is Lin Manuel Miranda?

100

symbol that looks like a squiggle & indicates 1 beat of silence

What is a quarter rest?

100

Together ?

What is Tutti?

200

______ is the foundation of singing.

What is Breathing?

200

synonymous for decrescendo

What is diminuendo?

200

Repertoire piece featuring grace notes, syncopation, and portamento

What is Will the Circle?

200
Acronym for spaces in the treble clef

What is FACE?

200

technical term for intervals that sound "crunchy" such as the M2 and M7

What is an dissonance/dissonant?

300

How choir students should walk on stage

What is Poise, Purpose, & Pleasantness?

300

Symbol that tells singers to hold the note until the conductor indicates otherwise

fermata

300

Repertoire piece about passing time and growing older

What is Old Mill?

300

The distance between two pitches

What is an interval?

300

Baroque compositional technique involving multiple melodies at the same time

What is polyphony (or counterpoint)

400

Rule for long notes

What is Long Notes Live or Die?

400
Meaning of Con Fuoco (from 5 Hebrew Love Songs)

What is with fire 

400

Repertoire piece which features BOTH 6/8 and 3/4 time.

What is Muhona?

400

Musical symbol which looks like a quarter note with a flag on it

What is an eighth note?

400

Term used to describe tuning, locking in the chords

What is intonation?

500

Three aspects of good singers position

What is 

A. Feet hip/shoulder width apart

B. Knees slightly bent

C. Chin parallel to the ground

D. Eyes on the conductor

500

fast paced embellishments on a single syllable, like modern riffs

 What is a melisma?

500

Time period Domine came from

What is the Baroque period?

500

Type of note that equals 3 beats in 4/4 time

What is a dotted half note?

500

suddenly

What is subito?

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