Download Directions: Use your Vocabulary Review - Heath Vocal Music

Name: _________________________
VOCABULARY WORKSHEET
Date: _________________________
Directions: Use your Vocabulary Review sheet and your notes from the beginning of the
year to help find the word that best fits the given definition. A completed vocab packet is
available on the www.heathchoirs.weebly.com/my-choir site. All of these words will be
on your exam on Wednesday!! Be careful! There are a few words we may have only
briefly covered and some that are new!
1. _____________________________ - The numbers at the beginning of a piece
showing the number of beats in a measure and what notes gets the beat.
2. _____________________________ - Voices singing unified vowels
3. _____________________________ - all voice parts singing in the center of the
pitch
4. _____________________________ - Correct amount of each voice part
5. _____________________________ - A scale built on La with a raised Sol
6. _____________________________ - A note sung with added strength or
emphasis
7. _____________________________ - Robbed-time or Freely
8. _____________________________ - A return to the original tempo
9. _____________________________ - Emphasizing the upbeat
10. _____________________________ - When the music reflects the text
11. _____________________________ - The steady pulse of music
12. _____________________________ - All parts singing at the same pitches
13. _____________________________ - Tone color
14. _____________________________ - Very much
15. _____________________________ - The distance between two notes in relation
to pitch
16. _____________________________ - A word that has two or more side-by-side
vowel sounds
17. _____________________________ - A signal or gesture from a conductor
18. _____________________________ - The end of the piece
19. _____________________________ - “The Head”; repeat to the beginning of the
piece
20. _____________________________ - The volumes in a piece of music
21. _____________________________ - The highness or lowness of a tone
22. _____________________________ - The speed of the music
23. _____________________________ - Smooth and connected
24. _____________________________ - Gradually getting quieter
25. _____________________________ - Medium loud
Word Bank:
Accent
Dynamics
Rubato
A tempo
Fine
Syncopation
Balance
Interval
Tempo
Beat
Intonation
Text Painting
Blend
Legato
Timbre
Cue
Mezzo-forte
Time Signature
“Da Capo”
Motlto
Unison
Decrescendo
Harmonic Minor Scale
Diphthong
Pitch