BARBERSHOP HISTORY-GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

author: Mark Axelrod, editor of "Blue Chip Chatter," Teaneck, NJ.

Define the following musical terms:

1- Fermata

2 -Legato

3 -Tessitura


Answers to Barbershop History - General Knowledge Quiz:

1 - The prolongation of a tone, chord, or rest beyond its indicated time value; the sign (musical notation) indicating this prolongation which looks like a dot beneath a semi-circle.

2 - The smooth, seamless connection of successive notes; the opposite of choppy.

3 - The general 'lie' of a vocal part, whether high or low in its average pitch. It differs from range in that it does not take into account a few isolated notes of extraordinarily high or low pitch.


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