Vocal Anatomy
The scientific name for the wind pipe.
What is the trachea?
The symbol that raises the pitch of a note by one half step and looks like a hash tag.
What is a sharp?
This is what the top number of a time signature tells us.
What is how many beats per measure?
Rhythm or articulation - the one that is affected by a dot to the right of the note head.
What is rhythm?
The sign that cancels a previous accidental either within the measure or from the key signature.
What is a natural?
The newer, more correct term for the "vocal cords".
What is the vocal folds?
The term for music found only at the end of a piece.
What is the coda?
This is what the bottom number of a time signature tells us.
What is which kind of note gets the beat?
The term for the round part of a note.
What is the note's head?
The name of the symbol that tells the performer to hold out the note as long as the conductor chooses.
What is a fermata?
The scientific name for the "voice box".
What is the larynx?
The term for singing or playing the same thing at the same time.
What is unison?
True or false: the top number of a time signature must correspond to a type of note.
What is false?
The term for the part of a single eighth note (or a shorter note) that hangs off of the stem.
What is the flag?
The meaning of the Italian term accelerando.
What is to gradually get faster in tempo?
The softer part of the roof of the mouth that should remain lifted when singing.
What is the soft palate?
The term for the speed of the beat.
What is tempo?
The time signature that a big letter C abbreviates.
What is 4/4 or common time?
The term for the bar that connects more than one eighth note (or shorter).
What is the beam?
Of D.S. or D.C., the one that tells you to go back to the beginning of the piece.
What is D.C. (da cappo)?
The THREE articulators.
What are the lips, the teeth and the tongue?
The meaning of the Italian word subito.
What is suddenly or immediately?
The time signature 2/2 can be abbreviated and is also know as this.
What is cut time?
The side of the note that the stem should go on if it is pointing down.
What is the left side?
The meaning of the term a cappella.
What is singing without instrumental accompaniment?