Choir Vocabulary

2. The intensity of the tone you hear when you sing, caused by the reverberation of sound as it leaves the vocal cords and travels out of your body
4. Without instruments, voices only (no space)
7. A steady pulse that underlies a piece of music
9. The flow of music through time
10. The accuracy of the pitch
12. Performing music with expressiveness, with attention to dynamics, articulation, phrasing, and text
13. An ensemble sound in which individual musicians are not separately discernible to a listener
14. How loud or soft a section of a piece of music should be performed
15. When every voice/instrument in an ensemble is singing/playing the same pitches at the same time
16. Speed of a piece of music, measured by BPM
18. When more than one pitch is played or sung at the same time
19. How you begin a note or phrase

1. How you end a note or phrase
3. A succession of pitches that create the main musical idea of a piece
5. The method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression
6. Determines how a single note is sounded-primarily it's start and end
8. How lyrics are pronounced as you are singing
11. The relative volume of each section of a musical ensemble
16. The quality of a musical sound
17. The relative highness or lowness of a sound