Warming Up Our Voices
This musical notation indicator has five lines and four spaces.
What is the staff?
The system of short syllables used to learn music.
What is solfege?
For singing, this part of the body must remain at the sides of the body - not in front, not behind, or crossed.
What are the arms?
The act of moving one's arms to show the tempo, rhythm, and character of a piece.
What is conducting?
The solfege syllable that is considered the "home pitch" "tonic pitch", or the first pitch in a major scale
What is "do"?
Traditionally, choir warmups are based around this series of 5 or 8 consecutive ascending and descending notes
What is a scale
This part of music notation appears at the beginning of every song, after the clef, and contains 2 important numbers that tell us how to count rhythms.
What is the time signature?
What kind of note receives 4 beats in 4/4 time?
What is a whole note?
What kind of rest receives two beats?
What is the half rest?
The hand sign for this solfege syllable requires the singer to slant their hand diagnonally upward
What is "re"
This type of warmup requires one group to start singing, and a second group to come in a few measures later
What is a round or a canon
This symbol separates two measures of music
What is a bar line?
What kind of note receives 3 beats in 4/4 time?
What is a dotted half note?
True or false, the top number in the time signature tells us how many beats are in each measure.
What is true
What is F
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These two symbols lower and raise a pitch. They also help determine the key signature at the beginning of a piece. HINT: The key of F has one of these symbols.
What are sharps and flats?
This musical process helps singers count every note equally and on time with the metronome
What is subdividing
Between "do" and "so", which two solfege syllables create a minor 2nd interval?
What are "mi" and "fa"