Music Test

Front 1

articulation

Back 1

speaking clearly and distinctly with the placement of consonants towards the front of the mouth

Front 2

alliteration

Back 2

refers to the first letter of the words in a phrase or rhyme all start with the same letter, for example. "Betty's baby buggy bumpers"

Front 3

vocal glide

Back 3

slowly start on a vowel sound at the top of your vocal range and glide smoothly down the scale as you slowly raise your arm over your head and lower it along with the movement of your voice down to the bottom of your vocal range

Front 4

the sprinkler

Back 4

breathing exercise: stand with feet apart 4-6 inches, raise arms slowly over head as your inhale through your noise: stretch and hold arms over head for a count of three seconds, then slowly lower arms while quietly exhaling through mouth

Front 5

tongue twisters

Back 5

a. big black bug's blood

b. she sells seashells down by the seashore

c. red leather, yellow leather

d. how much wood could a woodchuck chuk if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

e. peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

f. through the teeth to the tip of the tongue

Front 6

tongue twisters set to music

Back 6

a. many mumbling mice making mighty music in the moonlight mighty nice

b. bee bye bee, bee bye bo, bee buy bicky bye bicky bo

Front 7

vocal shout

Back 7

the exercise "ho, ho, ho...ha,ha, ha.....hee, hee, hee is called this that works the diaphragm muscle to increase stamina and breath support in singing

Front 8

tongue trill

Back 8

use your tongue to roll an "r" on the vocal pattern of do, re,me,fa, sol, fa,mi, re, do. breath after each pattern

Front 9

lip trill

Back 9

this exercise is performed the same way as the tongue trill except that one relaxes the muscles around the mouth and vibrates the lips as the tongue did. sounds like a "horse blowing"

Front 10

relaxation/rejuvenation exercise

Back 10

this is used to help renew your voice when it is overworked or extremely tired

Front 11

music

Back 11

an art based on the organization of the sound in time" made up of the following elements' rhythm, melody, harmony, form style and tone color(timbre)

Front 12

rhythm

Back 12

is the duration of sound in time

Front 13

melody

Back 13

is an organized pattern of single tones(pitches) that ass up to a recognizable whole. they can move upward, downward or repeat

Front 14

harmony

Back 14

is where two or more different tones sound at the same time

Front 15

form

Back 15

is the structure of a composition; the way its musical materials are organized, a musical blueprint

Front 16

style

Back 16

refers to how a song or piece of music speaks to the listener giving musical clues as to which era the piece was written in

Front 17

tone color

Back 17

the unique sound of an instrument or voice

Front 18

dynamics

Back 18

are the degrees of loudness and softness in music

Front 19

the pitch of a sound

Back 19

is determined by the frequency of its vibrations, how fast or slow the sound vibrates

Front 20

decibel

Back 20

the frequency of vibrations of sound measured in cycles per second

Front 21

timbre

Back 21

is another name for tone color

Front 22

tempo

Back 22

is the speed of the beat in a piece of music

Front 23

smaller.....larger

Back 23

usually the_____________the vibrating element, the higher its pitch......therefore, the _______________ the vibrating element, the lower the pitch sounds.