- Allegro
- A fast tempo marking
- Staccato
- A style of playing notes in a detached, separated, distinct manner
- Sempre
- Always
- Crescendo
- A directive to a performer to smoothly increase the volume of a particular passage or phrase
- Simile
- A directive to perform the indicated passage in the same manner as the previous passage
- Ritard
- A directive to perform a passage with a gradually delaying tempo
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Carol of the Bells Vocabulary
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Posture, Breathing, Vowel Formation, and Articulation
Posture:
Standing; the proper posture for singing while standing includes having your feet flat on the floor, shoulder width apart, with little weight on the back of the feet. moving up, the knees should be ever so slightly bent as so that they are not locked. Continuing on, your hands should be comfortably at your sides. You should be standing tall, with your back straight, and your shoulders rolled back. Lastly, this includes your head and chin up, facing forwards.
Sitting; the posture for sitting includes everything from standing up that relates to the waist up, excluding that the hand can also be resting on your legs. Then for the waist and below, your feet and legs should be facing forwards, and again, your feet should be flat on the ground.
Breathing:
Good breathing should expand low, near the stomach, instead of high up in the chest. The breath should be full, and take in as much air in an efficient, preferably quiet way, as possible. Normally, this is achieved by keeping the jaw open when breathing, often times having the mouth in the formation of the upcoming vowel. Also, if it relates, the breath should follow queues by the conductor.
Vowel Formation:
Vowel formation should always include an open jaw, and should never include a wide mouth or lip formation. The tongue should never get too close or touch the roof of the mouth.
Articulation:
Articulations should be clear and easily defined as what letter(s) they are pronouncing. these help the audience in knowing what words the choir is singing, adding clarity, so they should stand out without taking away from the vowels. Articulating normally includes making d's, t's, c's and k's, and sometimes p's stand out.
Standing; the proper posture for singing while standing includes having your feet flat on the floor, shoulder width apart, with little weight on the back of the feet. moving up, the knees should be ever so slightly bent as so that they are not locked. Continuing on, your hands should be comfortably at your sides. You should be standing tall, with your back straight, and your shoulders rolled back. Lastly, this includes your head and chin up, facing forwards.
Sitting; the posture for sitting includes everything from standing up that relates to the waist up, excluding that the hand can also be resting on your legs. Then for the waist and below, your feet and legs should be facing forwards, and again, your feet should be flat on the ground.
Breathing:
Good breathing should expand low, near the stomach, instead of high up in the chest. The breath should be full, and take in as much air in an efficient, preferably quiet way, as possible. Normally, this is achieved by keeping the jaw open when breathing, often times having the mouth in the formation of the upcoming vowel. Also, if it relates, the breath should follow queues by the conductor.
Vowel Formation:
Vowel formation should always include an open jaw, and should never include a wide mouth or lip formation. The tongue should never get too close or touch the roof of the mouth.
Articulation:
Articulations should be clear and easily defined as what letter(s) they are pronouncing. these help the audience in knowing what words the choir is singing, adding clarity, so they should stand out without taking away from the vowels. Articulating normally includes making d's, t's, c's and k's, and sometimes p's stand out.
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