Middle School Chorus Vocabulary #1-25

Marked, stressed

• legato

• staccato

• marcato

• Dal Segno

Without accompaniment

• a tempo

• a cappella

• dynamics

• andante

Smoothly

• Legato

• Staccato

• Allegro

• Fermata

Return to the original tempo

• first ending

• chord

• Allegro

• A tempo

Very slow tempo

• Allegro

• Largo

• Legato

• Andante

Becoming faster

• Accelerando

• Andante

• Crecsendo

• Decresendo

Distance between two pitches

• leap

• step

• chord

• interval

Slow, leasurely

• Allegro

• Largo

• Fine

• Adagio

Fortissimo

• Loud

• Very Loud

• Medium Loud

• Soft Loud

lively, fast tempo

• Andante

• Allegro

• A Cappella

• Adagio