Across
- 2. Making sure all the voice parts (SATB) can be heard equally – no one part overpowers another
- 4. Separates measures
- 7. Space between two barlines
- 9. Lowers a note by a half step
- 10. To slow down
- 12. Raises a note by a half step
- 13. Two clashing notes, crunch
- 16. The person who wrote the music. Name usually found at the top right on a piece of music
- 18. The five lines and four spaces musicians use to read music
- 23. To gradually get softer
- 25. The distance between two pitches
- 26. together
- 27. Smooth, connected
- 28. Use of consonants. Includes shadow vowels
Down
- 1. Tuning, locking in of the chords, making sure all pitches are sung right in the center of the note – not flat, not sharp
- 3. Singing the same notes together at the same time
- 5. Signals to hold the note for longer than its written value. Watch the conductor
- 6. Making sure all the voices match (vowels, tone quality, volume) within each section
- 8. Singing in parts, not in unison
- 11. The pace of the music, how fast or slow
- 12. Moving from dissonance to consonance (choir rule: crescendo suspensions!)
- 14. Strong strike and immediate decay. Strong emphasis. Punch the note
- 15. The person who wrote this particular version of a piece of music (they did not originally create the melody)
- 17. An ordered sequence of notes within an octave
- 19. Curved line that connects two or more of the same note, ties them together as if they were one note. No rearticulations.
- 20. Which voice parts are used in the piece of music (SSA, SATB, TTB, etc.)
- 21. Very/a lot
- 22. To gradually get louder
- 23. Volume. Includes pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, etc.
- 24. Indicates legato, smooth singing