Musical Terms for Choir - ff

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Across
  1. 3. “Tout est ___, tout est joie” (Ravel).
  2. 5. Prolific Franco-Flemish composer of motets, masses, and chansons.
  3. 9. “Laudamus te, ___ te” (Gloria).
  4. 11. Seal ___: Eric Whitacre’s setting of a Kipling poem.
  5. 12. American composer of Te Deum and I Hate and I Love.
  6. 14. Gradually slowing down and broadening in tempo and tone.
  7. 15. “Freude, schöner ___” (Beethoven).
  8. 19. “Dona nobis ___”
  9. 20. Gradually getting faster.
  10. 22. The transition area between vocal registers.
  11. 23. Fading in both sound and tempo—“dying away.”
  12. 24. The most comfortable and used vocal range in a piece.
Down
  1. 1. Ornamental and agile vocal style, often for sopranos.
  2. 2. Sure on This ___ Night: A luminous Lauridsen setting of James Agee.
  3. 4. Ideal vocal tone balancing brightness and darkness.
  4. 6. Polish composer of Stabat Mater and Litany to the Virgin Mary.
  5. 7. “Kyrie ___”
  6. 8. O Magnum ___: Victoria and others set this Latin Christmas text.
  7. 10. A sudden, forceful accent on a single note or chord.
  8. 13. L’homme ___: A secular melody used in over 40 Renaissance mass settings.
  9. 15. Renaissance composer infamous for madrigals and murder.
  10. 16. Austrian Romantic composer Anton, known for motets and masses.
  11. 17. String technique involving plucking instead of bowing.
  12. 18. A ___ of Carols: A Britten work combining Christmas texts and harp.
  13. 21. Italian term for supported breath technique, literally “to lean.”