Choir Terms #1

When we sing, we use a part of the body called the diaphragm. The diaphragm is a ...

• Bone

• Muscle

• Ligament

• Stomach

When we sing, we want our faces to open ________, not _______

• North/South, not East/West

• East/West, not North/South

The four voices of the choir are ...

• Tenor

• Baritone

• Bass

• Soprano

• Alto

Order the voices of the choir in order of lowest voice to highest voice

(a)  

When we warm up our voices, we use words that stand for musical steps called...

• Solé

• Solfege

• Musical ladder

• Choir words

Which of these is NOT a solfege word?

• Do

• Re

• Sol

• Ma

• Ti

A bar is a musical (a)   ?

We end a bar by using a _____?

• period

• exclamation point

• barline

• lyric

When all the voices of the choir are singing the same notes, we call this singing in ________ ?

• Verse

• Melody

• Chorus

• Unison

True or False:

We use bar numbers in songs to easily guide ourselves through a song

• True

• False