Solfège & Sight-Reading
The solfège that starts every scale. Feels like home base within major keys.
What is Do?
How many beats does a pair of eighth notes recieve?
What is One Beat?
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?
During UIL Sight-Reading, our judge asks if we have ever seen, heard, or performed this piece of music before. We always answer _____.
What is No?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This dynamic marking is used to mark very loud sections of music. Marked in music as ff.
What is Fortissimo?
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 is the competition we are preparing for. It features a concert and a sight-reading portion.
What is UIL?
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 a 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?
Our choir piece "Witness" falls under a certain category of song. it is described as a religious song of a kind associated with Black Christians of the Southern US. This style of music is called?
What is a Spiritual?
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 Key Signature & Time Signature?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This term is used mostly for male singers when switching into their higher range. Mr. June uses this term during our descending "ooo" warm-up. Think of a "Micky Mouse" voice.
What is Falsetto?
If I began on a C, and was asked to find a Major 3rd above, what pitch would I be singing? Answer with the note name, not solfège.
What is E?
Mr. June has explained these terms as listening to ones self, listening to ones section, and listening to the whole ensemble.
What is Level One, Two, and Three listening?
When singing a Chromatic Scale up from low do to high do, we add in these solfège.
What is Di, Ri, Fi, Si, & Li.
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. The official term for what we would call a Canon or a Round.
What is an Ostinato?
This mode differs from our typical Ionian mode, also known as a Major Scale. It is distinct in it's lowering of Mi to Me, and Ti to Te. It was featured in "Il Et Bel Est Bon".
What is Dorian?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Name one of the three composers of our UIL Literature without looking.
What is Amy F. Bernon, Victor C. Johnson, or Audrey Snyder?