Famous Singers
Musical Vocabulary
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100

This singer wants your respect, and is considered the Queen of Soul.

Who is Aretha Franklin?

100

To sing without musical accompaniment.

What is a cappella? 

100

When you take in air and then control the speed and force of its release. 

What is breath support?

100

A movie where Dewey Finn poses as a substitute music teacher at a private elementary school and forms a band with the students in his class. 

What is School of Rock?

100

The date when invoices are due each month. 

What is the 15th?

200

This singer who settled down in Memphis, TN is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll". 

Who is Elvis Presley?

200

Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. 

What are dynamics?

200

The part of the mouth that lifts when you yawn, or when you sing a high note. 

What is the soft palate? 

200

A movie where a nun becomes a governess to a family of seven children and teaches them how to sing during the dawn of the second World War. 

What is The Sound of Music?

200

The place you go to tell Ms. Skirvin you will not be in your lesson. 

Where is Remind (or email/text)?

300

This singer just wants to dance with somebody, and will always love you. 

Who is Whitney Houston?

300

A musical composition consisting of a series of songs.

What is medley? 

300

The technique when you blend your chest and head voice together. 

What is mixing?

300
A movie where a Vegas lounge singer poses as a nun in order to escape her mobster boyfriend, and ends up leading the convent's choir. 

What is Sister Act?

300

The place Ms. Skirvin puts karaoke tracks.

What is Google Drive?

400

Known as "Ol' Blue Eyes", this singer was a member of the Rat Pack and also had a daughter who was a famous singer in her own right. 

Who is Frank Sinatra?

400

A combination of three or more notes played simultaneously. 

What is a chord?

400

The area of your face where you send sound to make it bright and forward

What is the mask?

400

A movie where a composer wants to write music, but ends up taking a temporary job as a high school orchestra teacher to make ends meet, but that ends up stretching decades. 

What is Mr. Holland's Opus? 

400

The location you go to to find worksheet PDFs

What is Student Portal? 

500

This singer wrote over 3000 songs, was an actress, opened a theme park and donated books to children through her own foundation. 

Who is Dolly Parton? 

500

When a musical passage moves from one key to another. 

What is modulation?

500

The technique where you sing straight tone and then move into a very fluttery vibrato

What is jazz vibrato?

500

A movie where a music group from small town, in the 1960s, ends up writing a song that skyrockets them to stardom and all that comes after. 

What is That Thing You Do?

500

The name of the policy where you get to have one time where you completely forget you have a lesson. 

What is the Whoopsie Daisy policy? 

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