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Term | Definition |
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Sotto voce | Under the breath |
Spiritual | A negro song dealing with a religious subject |
Staccato | Short and snappy |
Staff | 5 lines and 4 spaces |
Subdominant | The 4th degree of the scale and the chord built on that note (IV) (fa) |
Subito | Suddenly |
Syncopation | Strong note on a weak beat |
Tacet | Silent, not to be performed |
Tempo | Rate of speed |
Tenuto | To hold the note for its full value |
Tessitura | The general 'lie' of a vocal part, an average pitch level |
Texture | How the music is put together |
Tie | A curved line connecting notes of the same pitch |
Timbre | Tone color of the singing voice |
Time signature | Top number-how many beats in measure/bottom-what kind of note gets one beat |
Tonic | The first degree of the scale and chord built on that note (I) (do) |
Transpose | To rewrite and perform in a key other than the original |
Tutti | All |
Unison | Interval where all pitches are the same/all sing the same note |
Vocalise | A vocal exercise or etude, sung to vowels or syllables |