WOTD

✓1. Marking: Sining half voice usually for rehearsal purposes so no one does not over use their voice. Opposite of full out.
✓2. Melody: Also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
✓3. Rhythm: How a bear is divided to create different patterns. similar to tempo yet different.
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✓4. Operetta: a style between opera and musical theater. (music written by Gilbert and Sullivan are very good examples)
✓5. Piano: A direction in music to play/sing softly (opposite of Forte (loud))
✓6. Scoop: the act of sliding into a note This technique should be used sparingly and for comedic purposes
✓7. Sitzprobe: a German word that describes the first time a performer sits and runs through the full score with the orchestra
✓8. Staccato: when a dot is written under a note- it should be played as staccato or separated from the other notes. this is the opposite of legato.
✓9. Transpose: To change the key, either higher or lower, of the song.
✓10. Vibrato: The movement of a pitch slightly above or below the pitch center. it is caused by the vibration of your vocal folds
✓11. Accompaniment: The playing of an instrument or instruments along with a singer
✓12. A Cappella: Singing without instrumental accompaniment
13. Ballad: a slow sentimental song
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14. Anchoring: The use of the entire body while singing. (this will help you hit higher notes)
15. Catch Breath: A quick, short, breath that is taken only when necessary
16. Chest Voice: also known as thick fold. Place your hand on your chest and say, “Ahhhhhh” on a low pitch. If you feel vibrations under your palm, you're using your chest voice. if you don't you are using head voice. chest voice is the closest singing voice to your singing voice.
17. Cut off: to bring all sound to an end
18. Crescendo: A gradual increase in volume
19. Decrescendo: a gradual decrease in volume
20. Diaphragm: The dome shaped muscle attached to the bottom of the lungs that separates your chest and stomach cavities
21. Diction: The clear and proper pronunciation of words
22. Flat: a sound under pitch
23. Harmony: the sound of two or more notes heard simultaneously
24. Larynx: the voice box.
25. Lead sheet: A type of sheet music that contains only the lyrics, melody lines, and chords
26. Legit: A term used to describe a more classical style of singing
27. Uptempo: a fast song
28. Inflection: the words and syllables that are stressed in a sentence or word
29. Pitch: the matching of a singers voice to a specific note
30. Sharp: A sound higher then the pitch
31. Passagio: the pitches of the voice where your vocal folds change from thick fold to think for or vice versa
32. Round: a song in which voices sing exactly the same melody but beginning at different times
33. Scale: a set of notes set in order of their pitch (ex. Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do)
34. Head voice: thin fold
35. Projection: The strength of speaking or singing where the voice is used loudly and clearly
36. Solo: singing alone
41. Tempo: how fast or slow a song goes
42. Stamina: A great physical or mental strength that allows you to continue doing something for a long time. Musical stamina is BOTH physical and mental
43. Sustain: holding out the sound
44. Vocal fry: slack
45. Dynamics: the variations of soft and loud in a piece of music
46. forte: loud and strong
47. Legato: smooth
48. Phrasing: The choice a singer makes regarding breaths/pauses that are taken in a song.
49. Mix: The blending of head voice and chest voice
50. Scat: A technique often used when singing jazz where singers use meaningless sounds and improvised notes often imitating instruments
51. Sight-Singing: Reading music without any advance preparation or the aid of a piano
52. Tone: The quality associated with the sound a singer makes. Words to describe ones tone vary greatly- some examples include rich, warm, bright, and strident
53. Belting: a singing technique by which a singer produces a loud sound in their mid to upper range. normally used to convey heightened emotion.
54. Glottal Stop: the act of obstructing air flow in your vocal tract. (can be heard when you say uh-oh)
55. Wandelprobe: much like a sitzprobe, only this one includes the use of blocking
56. Vocal folds: these muscles inside the larynx are responsible to make sound. as air leaves the lungs it moves through the vocal folds which vibrate against each other, making sound.
57. Intonation: How well one sings in relation to a certain pitch. If someone has intonation issues they will be singing either sharp or flat

SOTD
✓1. So in Love From: Kiss Me Kate
✓2. God Loves Nubia From: Aida
✓3. Anthem From: Chess
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✓4. Time Warp From: Rock Horror show
✓5. Someone Like You From: Jekyll and Hyde
✓6. Die'n An't so Bad From: Bonnie and Clyde
✓7. In My Own Little Corner From: Cinderella
✓8. Wheels of a Dream From: Ragtime
✓9. The Secret of Happiness From: Daddy Long Legs
✓10. Never Never Land From: Peter Pan
✓11. On My Own From: Les Misérables
✓12. My Funny Valentine From: Babies in Arms
✓13. It Might as Well be Spring From: State Fair
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✓14. Monster From: Frozen
✓15. These Palace Walls From: Aladdin
16. Beyond my Wildest Dreams From: The Little Mermaid
17. Home From: Beauty and the Beast
18. Welcome to Wonderland From: Wonderland
19. Someone to Watch Over Me From: Nice Work if You Can Get it
20. Fools Fall in Love From: All Shook Up
21. River Deep-Mountain High From: Tina
22. Some Things are Meant to Be From: Little Woman
23. Watch What Happens From: Newsies
24. Think Big From: John and Jen
25. My Grand Plan From: The Lightning Thief
26. Can You Imagine That From: Mary Poppins Returns
27. For Good From: Wicked
28. When I Get my Name In Lights From: The Boy in Oz
29. We Go Together From: Grease
30. You Can't Stop The Beat From: Hairspray
31. 76 Trombones From: The Music Man
32. Seasons of Love From: Rent
33. Times are Hard for Dreamers From: Amélie
34. Get Back up Again From: Trolls
35. The Jitterbug From: The Wizard of Oz
36. The Wheel From: Tuck Everlasting
37. Play From: Neverland
38. Eye of the Tiger From: Rocky the Musical
39. Beautiful City From: Godspell
40. No one is Alone From: Into the Woods
41. Chop to the Top From: Sponge Bob the Musical
42. Shy From: Once Upon a Mattress
43. Without You From: My Fair Lady
44. Pulled From: The Addams Family
45. Me and My Screen From: Giants in The Sky
46. I See Stars From: Mean Girls
47. In a Crowd of Thousands From: Anastasia
48. Live out Loud From: A Little Princess
49. Flight By Sutton Foster
50. My New Philosophy From: Your a Good Man Charley Brown
51. Wick From: The Secret Garden
52. What I Did for Love From: A Chorus Line
53. How Are Things in Glocca Morra From: Finian's Rainbow
54. Do Re Mi From: The Sound of Music
55. What it Means to Be a Friend From: 13
56. Memory From: Cat
57. I Know It's Today From: Shrek the Musical
58. Matchmaker From: Fiddler on the Roof
59. The Beauty Is From: The Light in the Piazza