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What is a Conductor?
The speed of the music.
What is the tempo?
The central act of worship, which is the celebration of the Eucharist?
What is mass?
Raises a note by a half step.
What is a sharp?
The distance between two pitches.
What is an interval?
A musical "sentence" or complete musical idea.
What is a phrase?
The pattern of sounds and silences in music.
What is the rhythm?
An unpleasing or unstable combination of notes, often used to create tension.
What is dissonance?
Lowers a note by a half step.
What is a flat?
A sequence of single notes that form a recognizable tune.
What is a melody?
What is a score?
What is a chord?
What is consonance?
Cancels a sharp or flat.
What is a natural?
The seamless merging of individual voices to create a unified choral sound, where no single voice stands out.
What is blend?
The written music for all the parts of a piece.
What is the score?
The loudness or softness of music.
What are dynamics?
The ability to sing or play music directly from the written notation without prior practice.
What is sight-reading?
A concluding section of a piece of music.
What is a coda?
Two bands of smooth muscle tissue located in the larynx (voice box) that vibrate to produce sound.
What are vocal chords?
Numbers at the beginning of the staff indicating the number of beats per measure and which note gets one beat.
What is the time signature?
The lowest male voice part.
What is bass?
The combination of different musical notes sung or played simultaneously to create chords and support the melody.
What is harmony?
What is an accidental?
The interval between two notes where the higher note has twice the frequency of the lower note
What is an octave?