Choir
This is the term for performers singing the same part are divided to sing different parts.
What is divisi?
All three of the songs we are performing are sung this way, with no instruments.
What is a cappella?
This symbol indicates the pitch and range for higher voices.
What is the treble clef?
This marking indicates the music should be performed smoothly and connected.
What is legato?
This is the date for our Spring Concert.
What is May 5th?
This is the term for a high obligato part above the melody.
What is descant?
This is the genre of We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace.
What is spiritual?
This symbol lowers a pitch.
What is flat?
This term tells performers to gradually slow down.
What is ritardando?
This refers to the clarity and accuracy of consonants and vowels when singing text.
What is diction?
This is a description of the proper choir posture.
What is standing with feet shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent, shoulders relaxed, sternum lifted, and head level?
These are the languages are we singing in this semester.
What is English and Latin?
This type of scale or melody moves entirely by half steps, using pitches outside the home key, often creating tension and color in a piece.
What is a chromatic scale?
This is the term for most widely used range of pitches in a piece of music.
What is tessitura?
The term for a large scale musical composition on a sacred subject.
What is oratorio?
This is when different voice parts enter at different times with the same melody.
What is a round?
This is the starting pitch for Eli, Eli.
What is C?
This major key has a key signature with 3 flats.
What is Eb Major?
This is the term for making the established pulse flexible by accelerating and slowing down the tempo; an expressive device.
What is rubato?
This is an unaccompanied homophonic choral composition for three or more voices.
What is part song?
This is what IPA stands for.
What is International Phonetic Alphabet?
This is the mode that Gloria is written in.
What is Dorian mode?
This is the relative minor to G major.
What is e minor?
In this type of musical texture, each voice has its own melody, creating multiple lines that move independently.
What is polyphony?
These are the 3 types of onsets.
What is glottal, aspirate, and balanced?