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GJHS Choir7 S1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Diaphragm | The muscle that helps you breathe |
| Posture | The way you hold your body |
| True or False: Posture can be good and bad. | True |
| Rhythm | A pattern of long and short notes |
| Does Rhythm have a pitch to it? | No |
| Melody | The main tune of the song, the part you can sing back |
| Round | Two or more people singing the same thing but starting at different times |
| Time Signature | The two numbers at the beginning of a piece of music that say how many beats are in a measure, and which note gets the beat |
| Measure | The space between two barlines |
| Barline | A line that separates music and has no value |
| Unison | Two or more people singing (or playing) the same thing at the same time. |
| Are Unison and Round the same thing? | NO |
| Scale | A series of notes in order from lowest to highest or highest to lowest |
| Ascending | Going up |
| True or False: Ascending can be something you hear and see? | True |
| Descending | Going down |
| True or False: Descending notes can be heard and seen? | True |
| Interval | The space between two notes or pitches |
| True or False: Intervals can not be heard and seen? | False |
| Repeat Sign | Means "go back and do it again" |
| Dynamics | How loud or soft something is. |
| Dynamics have to do with how loud or soft something is not this? | Pitch |
| Piano | "soft" |
| Forte | "loud" |
| Mezzo Piano | "medium soft" |
| Mezzo Forte | "medium loud" |
| Fortissimo | "very loud" |
| Pianissimo | "very soft" |
| Dynamics in order (soft to loud) | pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff |
| Whole note | 4 beats |
| Half note | 2 beats |
| Quarter note | 1 beat |
| Eighth note | 1/2 beat |
| Sixteenth note | 1/4 beat |
| Dotted notes | A dot adds half the value of the note |
| Dotted whole note | 6 beats |
| Dotted half note | 3 beats |
| Dotted quarter note | 1-1/2 beats |
| Dotted eighth note | 3/4 beat |
| Dotted sixteenth note | 3/8 beat |
| Treble Clef | What Sopranos and Altos sing in |
| Treble Clef notes | EGBDF those are the lines of the Treble Clef FACE they're as space-y as can be |
| Bass Clef spaces | All Cows Eat Grass = ACEG |
| Bass Clef lines | Good Boys Do Fine Always = GBDFA |
| Sight-Reading | Key of C no sharps no Flats. C is Do. |
| Key of C | No sharps or flats |
| Key of F | There is one flat. F is Do. |
| Key of G | One sharp #. G is Do. |