Know Your Terms
The lowest voice part in choral music.
Bass
This musical object has five lines and four spaces.
Staff
This note get 1 beat in 4/4 time.
Quarter Note
This dynamic means "soft."
Piano
The term for an unaccompanied song.
A Capella
The highest voice part in choral music.
Soprano
This clef is also known as the G-clef.
Treble Clef
This note gets 4 beats in 4/4 time.
Whole
The "m" in "mp" and "mf."
Mezzo or Medium
The original writer of a song.
Composer
This determines how fast of slow a song moves.
Tempo.
This part of music notation appears at the beginning of every song, after the clef, and contains 2 important numbers.
Time Signature
This symbol adds half of the note value.
Dot
The The dynamic one step louder than mezzo-forte.
You never write with this in your music.
Anything other than pencil.
This large muscle is located below the lungs but right above the stomach. It moves up and down to allow air into the lungs.
Diaphragm
This symbol may appear anywhere in a piece of music. It has two dots and two lines - 1 thin line and 1 thick line.
Repeat Sign
This note receives half of a beat in 4/4 time.
Eighth Note
This symbol tells us to get gradually softer.
Decrescendo
The person you watch for musical cues such as entrances and cutoffs.
The Conductor.
This interior piece of anatomy must be raised in order to create tall choral vowels.
Soft Palate
This symbol raises a pitch by a half step.
Sharp
This clef is also known as "F Clef."
Bass Clef
The dynamic one level softer than "piano"
Pianissimo
The proper name for a piece of choral sheet music.
Octavo.