Broadway Music Vocabulary!

When a character is singing all of the melody alone, and everything else (voices and instruments) are clearly in the background, the song is a....

• Duet

• Solo

• Harmony

• Polyphony

When a melody gets repeated, usually with a mood change, it's a

• Duet

• Harmony

• Reprise

• Polyphony

When a character is singing about a big idea, usually with a distinctive repeated melody, that is a...

• Theme

• Solo

• Reprise

• Harmony

When multiple characters are singing their own melodies at the same time, and it's hard to hear all of the lyrics clearly, that type of harmony is called...

• Polyphony

• Homophony

• Cacophony

• Chaos

When two characters are singing one melody, trading importance, it's called a...

• Polyphony

• Reprise

• Hot Mess

• Duet

When a note or a melody shows us something important about the lyrics (like a high note on the word "rise"), that's called...

• Word Painting

• Harmony

• Tempo

• Dynamics

If you adjust the TEMPO of a song, you're changing...

• The volume

• The speed of the beat

• The mood

• The singer

If you adjust the DYNAMICS of a song, you're changing...

• The volume

• The speed of the beat

• The mood

• The singer