Choir Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A choir singing as one unit with no individual voices popping out of the texture.
  2. 6. A basic unit for counting time within a piece of music
  3. 8. A set of staff lines where all parts (including accompaniment) occur at once before moving onto the next section (i.e. the next system).
  4. 9. Equality between voice parts
  5. 12. Singing or playing short, detached notes
  6. 15. Loud
  7. 16. The person (people) who took a song and changed it to work for choir
  8. 17. The portion of the song that repeats many times with the same melody and words (only minor differences)
  9. 19. The person who acts as a guide for the choir they direct. They keep time and help shape the music.
  10. 20. Very soft/quiet
Down
  1. 1. The portion of a song that does not repeat the same words. There are usually several verses with different words and similar melodies in one song.
  2. 3. Pronouncing words while singing so that the audience can understand the lyrics. Unifying vowels and consonant entrances and cut-offs.
  3. 4. The person (people) who wrote the music and/or lyrics
  4. 5. A line of music that feels complete within the whole. Or, a line of lyrics (sentence) in a song.
  5. 7. Singing or playing smoothly, without breaks
  6. 10. The words in a song
  7. 11. Soft/quiet
  8. 13. The volume of music
  9. 14. Gradually getting quieter
  10. 15. Very Loud
  11. 18. Gradually getting louder