green valley high school choir

Week 1

1. Notes - the written symbols of music = sound

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2. Rests - symbols that indicate silence

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3. Rhythm - the pattern of long and short note values in music

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4. Dynamics - the degree of loudness and softness and their symbols

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5. Leger Lines - short horizontal lines used to extend a staff either higher or lower

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Week 2

1. Serenade - A love song or piece, usually preformed below someone's window in the evening

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2. Secular music - Any music that is not sacred music

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3. Sacred music - music for worship, religious concerts or devotional use

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4. Conservatory - A music school

 

5. Analysis - The study of the form and structure of music

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Week 3

1. Riff - A repeated melodic pattern 

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2. Key Signature - The sharps or flats written on the staff at the beginning of a piece to indicate the key

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3. Fuoco - Fire, passion

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4. Ebollimento -  Sudden passion (in music - don't get excited)

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5. Ode - A lyrical poem set to music in honor of a person or occasion 

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Week 4

1. Monothematic- A composition based on on theme

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2. Theme- The main musical idea, usually a melody, of a composition 

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3. Melody- A succession of single notes

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4. Expression Marks- words or symbols that indicate how a piece should be interpreted 

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5. Interpretation- those aspects of a performance that comes from a performer rather than the composer

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Week 5

1. Range- The notes from the lowest to the highest that a voice or instrument may be capable of producing

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2. Treble- The highest voice, the instrument or part

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3. Da capo aria- A vocal form popular in barque opera with the form ABA

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4. Form- the shape and order of music

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5. Aria- An air or song for solo voice within an opera or an oratorio 

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Week 6

1. Voce- Voice

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2. Voice Leading- The logical movement of individual voice parts in a polyphony

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3. Polyphony- When 2 or more melodic lines are combined

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4. Monophony- A single melodic line without any additional parts or accompaniment

 

5. Modulation- To change key with a composition 

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Week 7

1.Maestoso- Majestic

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2.Hemiola- The rhythmic  relationship of three notes in the time of two, or two notes in the time of three

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3.Picardy Third- When a piece in a minor key ends in a major chord

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4.Sostenuto- Sustained

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5.Volume- The softness and loudness of sound

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Week 8

1.Opera- A dramatic work set to music in which all or most of the text is sung with instrumental accompaniment, costumes and sets

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2.Incidental Music- Short pieces that accompany a play

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3.Jam- A loose gathering of musicians to play, improvise, or rehearse

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4.Interpretation- An expression of one's own character and style in work

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5.Disjunct- moving in skips- intervals larger than a second

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Week 9

1.Scat- A type of improvisational is jazz singing that uses nonsense syllables rather than words

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2.Improvisation- Music created spontaneously

 

3.Jazz- An American music style of the 20th century characterized by syncopated rhythm and improvisation

 

4.Syncopation- To shift the accent of a note or chord to a weak part of a beat

 

5.Accent- To emphasize a note (Indicated by symbols)

 

Week 10

1.Medesimo- The same

 

2.Full Score- An instrumental score in which all the parts for the instruments appear on their own staves in standard instrumental family order

 

3.Pacato- Calm and quiet

 

4.Ethnomusicology- The study of various types of music in relation to their racial and cultural context

 

5.Melisma- Several notes sung to one syllable 

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Week 11

1.Isometric- In polyphonic music, when the same rhythm pattern is applied throughout the parts

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2.Homophony- Music in which one voice has the melody with a chordal accompaniment

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3.Accompaniment- A vocal or instrumental part that supports or is background for a solo part

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4.Ukulele- In the guitar family, a small fretted four string Hawaiian instrument tuned G, C, E, A

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5.Cadence- The melodic or harmonic ending of a piece or the sections or phrases therein

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Week 12

1. Digeridoo- Native Australian primitive horn made of wood or bamboo, with a straight cylindrical shape

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2.Accidentals- Sharps, flats or natural signs used to raise, lower or return a note to its normal pitch

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3.Balance- The harmonious adjustment of volume and timbre between instruments or voices

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4.Cacophony- discordant sound, dissonance

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5.Canon- The strictest form of counterpoint where one melody begins, followed at a specific interval of time by the same melody note for note