Notes from the Choir Member's Handbook
- Tonic
- What is generally enjoyed over ice after choir rehearsal.
- Dominant
- In a choral relationship, usually the alto.
- Augmentation
- Special surgery for altos involving the implantation of falsettos.
- Score
- Basses 3, Tenors 0.
- Riff
- What happens when someone takes your choir robe.
- Contralto
- An alto who has been convicted.
- Polychoral Motet
- Six parrots singing "Exultate Justi"
- Aleatoric Music
- Music composed by the random selection
of pitches and rhythms. Frequently found in the choir anthem.
- Basso Continuo
- When the director can't get them to stop.
- Castrato
- The highest male voice (some alteration required).
- Concerto Grosso
- An accordion concert.
- Glissando
- What directly precedes the highest note of a descant.
- Leitmotif
- Like a regular motif, but less filling.
- Rondo
- A popular sixties song as in 'Help, help me, Rondo.'
- Grand Pause
- When the conductor loses his place.
- Perfect Pitch
- Throwing a banjo in the dumpster without hitting the sides.
- Antiphonal
- Leaving your answering machine on all the time.
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