How to read a choral score

Chorus music can be called..... (choose ALL that apply)

• Score

• Octavo

• Sheet Music

• orchestration

What is a music staff?

• a place to write lyrics

• lines to write poetry

• 5 lines and four spaces where composers write music.

What do you call a collection of staves (multiple staff lines) that are connected by a line to the left of the music?

• staff

• measure

• system

• bar lines

How many systems on this page of music?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Answer explanation

What does accompaniment mean?

• Music that helps the singers

• Oboe

• Curtain Rod

• Any french horn music

True or false: Altos read the top line and Sopranos read the second line in choral music

• True

• False

• I like turtles

True or false: When there are two notes stacked on top of one another in the treble clef staff, the soprano sings the upper note.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Maybe

What does Unison mean?

• Singing

• Playing the piano

• Many voices singing harmony

• One Voice

What is a barline?

• separates the music on the staff and helps determine how many beats are in a measure

• Bracketed together because they sing together at the same time

• Pitches and rhythms on the staff

• A line of people outside a restaurant

What is a measure?

• many staff lines connected together

• the numbers at the beginning of a song

• the flats and sharps at the beginning of a song

• The pitches and rhythms on the staff between two barlines.