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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sotto voce | Under the breath |
| Spiritual | A negro song dealing with a religious subject |
| Staccato | Short and snappy |
| Staff | 5 lines and 4 spaces |
| Subdominant | The 4th degree of the scale and the chord built on that note (IV) (fa) |
| Subito | Suddenly |
| Syncopation | Strong note on a weak beat |
| Tacet | Silent, not to be performed |
| Tempo | Rate of speed |
| Tenuto | To hold the note for its full value |
| Tessitura | The general 'lie' of a vocal part, an average pitch level |
| Texture | How the music is put together |
| Tie | A curved line connecting notes of the same pitch |
| Timbre | Tone color of the singing voice |
| Time signature | Top number-how many beats in measure/bottom-what kind of note gets one beat |
| Tonic | The first degree of the scale and chord built on that note (I) (do) |
| Transpose | To rewrite and perform in a key other than the original |
| Tutti | All |
| Unison | Interval where all pitches are the same/all sing the same note |
| Vocalise | A vocal exercise or etude, sung to vowels or syllables |