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

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 ________?

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