Choral Singing Vocab

A steady, periodic sound

• Tone

• Blend

• falsetto

• breath

The art of playing or singing with a personal response to the music

• Phrasing

• Intonation

• Expression

• Balance

Pitch accuracy

• Diction

• Posture

• Tone

• Intonation

The position you hold your body in when sitting/standing.

• Diphthong

• Falsetto

• Balance

• Posture

The high register of the voice; vibrations felt in the face.

• Head voice

• Chest voice

• Falsetto

• Breath

How loud or soft music is played.

• Expression

• Dynamics

• Blend

• Intonation

The strength in the sound of a section

• Blend

• Balance

• Tone

• Phrasing

Sound formed by the combination of two vowel sounds

• Expression

• Diction

• Vowels

• Diphthong

Air taken in or expelled from the lungs

• Tone

• Intonation

• Breath

• Falsetto

A male voice with artificially high notes

• Head voice

• Falsetto

• Chest Voice

• Diphthong