Music Minutes 4 (Musical Symbols)

What is this symbol?

• Fermata

• Ending Symbol

• Pause

• Repeat Sign

What are the sections labeled "1." and "2."?

• First and second endings

• Soprano and alto sections

• Part 1 and part 2

• Choose your own adventure

What do you do when you see this?

• End the song

• Go back to the first set of dots and repeat that section

• Skip that section if it is marked with four dots

• Sing louder in that section

What do you do if there is only one set of dots like this?

• End the song

• Stop singing loudly

• Skip the next 2 measures

• Go all the way back to the beginning and repeat

What do you do when you see this?

• Choose either section 1 or section 2 to sing. It will blend with the other part.

• Sing the section labeled "1." then go back to the first set of dots and repeat. The second time, skip section 1, and go to section 2.

• Sopranos sing section 1; Altos sing section 2.

What do you do when you see D.S. al Coda and these signs?

• Sing until D.S. al Coda, go back to the sign that looks like an S; sing until the circle with the plus, then skip to the other circle with a plus and sing from there to the end.

• Skip from the sign that looks like an S to the sign that looks like a circle with a plus.

• Repeat the section between the two circles with plus signs.

• Choose to sing either the section starting with the sign that looks like an S or the section that looks like a circle with a plus.

What does Coda mean?

• beginning measures

• tail ending

• repeat entire song

• code word

What do you do when you see this?

• Sing your best so that people will tell you that you did fine.

• Sing from the sign that looks like an S until the end.

• Repeat the entire song three times.

• Sing until it says D.S. al Fine; go back to the sing that looks like an S; end at the word Fine.

What does Fine mean?

• Well

• First three measures

• End

• Singing

What does D.C. mean in music?

• da capo - Go back to the beginning

• da coda - Go to the ending

• dal segno - Go back to the sign

• da conduttore - The conductor