Madeline Bowen
Choir Bootcamp Vocabulary Review
1. Voice Parts - how a choir is divided
into sections of similar voices.
2. Soprano - the highest voice part.
3. Alto - the second highest voice part.
4. Tenor - the second lowest voice part.
5. Baritone - the voice part between
Tenor and Bass.
6. Bass - the lowest voice part.
7. Director/Conductor - the person in
charge, found at the front of the
Choir.
8. Octavo - a piece of choral music
that has multiple pages of sheet
music.
9. Title - the title is the name of the
piece of music, on the first page in
the octavo.
10. Lyricist - the writer who wrote the
words in a song.
11. Composer - the writer of the music.
12. Arranger - they took the original
piece of music and made it different.
13. Staff - consists of 5 lines and 4
spaces in music, numbered from
bottom to top.
14. Staves - the plural of staff.
15. Clef - contained in each staff that
tells us what the names of the notes
are.
16. Treble Clef - wraps around the
second line and names it ¨G¨ Voices
that sing in Treble Clef include
Soprano, Alto and sometimes Tenor.
17. Musical Alphabet - names of the
lines and spaces. A, B, C, D, E, F, G -
then repeat starting again with A.
18. Treble Clef Lines - E, G, B, D, F
(Every Good Boy Does Fine)
19. Treble Clef Spaces - F, A, C, E
20. Bass Clef - wraps around the fourth
line and names it ¨F¨ - Voices that
sing in Bass Clef include Tenor, Bass
and Baritone.
21. Bass Clef Lines - G, B, D, F, A
(Good Boys Do Fine Always)
22. Bass Clef Spaces - A, C, E, G
(All Cows Eat Grass)
23. Grand Staff - clefs that can appear
together on two separate staves or
on a staff by themselves. Often seen
in piano music.
24. Bracket - straight line connecting 3
Treble Clef staves and 1 Bass Clef
staff. Each line for a different voice
part to be sung at the same time.
25. Brace - curved line that connects
both clefs on two separate staves on
the Grand Staff.
26. System - when multiple staves can
be connected and NOT be a Grand
Staff.
27. Accompaniment - music played
underneath the singing when a
system also includes a Grand Staff.

28. Barlines - thin, vertical lines that

divide a staff.

29. Measures - the distance between

two barlines.

30. Double Barline - appears at the

end of a piece of music that
announces the piece is over and
consists of one thin, regular barline
and one thick barline. Literally 2
barlines.

31. Measure Numbers - used to keep

everyone in the same place that go
in chronological order and found in
the top left corner of the first
measure on each page and
sometimes each line.

32. Stems - the lines that come off the

notes that go DOWN.

33. First Part - the higher note when a

voice part splits into multiple parts.

34. Second Part - the lower note when

a voice part splits into multiple
parts.