Glee Club

fortississimo (fff)

very, very loud

fortissimo (ff)

very loud

forte (f)

loud

mezzo-forte (mf)

average (more)

mezzo-piano (mp)

average (less)

piano (p)

soft

pianissimo (pp)

very soft

pianississimo (ppp)

very, very soft

whole note

4 beats

half note

2 beats

quarter note

1 beat

eighth note

½ beat

sixteenth note

¼ note

don’t lock your _____

knees

______ relaxed

shoulder

_____ shoulders’ width apart

feet

one ____ slightly in front of the other

foot

___ engaged (feel the balloon inside)

Abs

____ facing forward (imagine an apple on your head or being pulled taut by a string)

head

acapella

“without instrumentation”

What piece did we sing Acapella?

“Carol of the Bells”.

measure

a segment of time within a piece of music defined by a given number of beats

staff

the set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that represent different musical pitches

dynamic signs (expression symbols)

indicate how loud or soft a piece of music should be played

staccato

a musical technique that involves playing or singing notes in a short, detached manner, with a small rest between each note

time signature

indicates the number of beats in each measure and the type of note used to count the beat

4 articulators

the Lips, the paLeTTE, the tEEth, the TonGue

tempo

speed

treble (G) clef

(backwards S)

bass (F) clef

(sad face)