#3 MUSICAL TERMS - Ca -  Co

1. Canzone - An Italian folksong or a part song in the madrigal style.

2. Cantor - The leading singer in German, Protestant church services or in Jewish synagogues.

3. Capo (Da Capo) - Italian word for Beginning  - Da Capo means take it from the beginning

4. Carol - To sing joyously. A joyous Christmas song of praise

5. Chamber Music - Vocal or instrumental music suitable for performance in a room or small hall; especially quartets and similar concerted pieces for solo instruments

6. Chanson - French Art Song

7. Chant - a) Anglican Chant - a short sacred song with no real rhythm but sung in harmony. The rhythm is based on how you would say the text.   b)Gregorian Chant - Sacred text set to one line of music.

8. Chanty - A unison song sung by workmen in time with their motions. Also spelled Shanty

9. Chest voice - The lower register of the voice in which vibrations are felt more in the chest - or

speaking voice

10. Chorale - A hymn tune of the German Protestant church, Bach wrote a lot of them.

11. Chord - A harmony of usually 3 notes (but could be 2) or more, in a series of thirds.

12. Chromatic Scale - Going up or down the scale by all half steps.

13. Claque - Hired groups of people paid to applaud an opera singer or some other performer.

14. Classical Music - European music from about 1770 - 1830. But also, any serious music

15. Coda - Italian for 'tail'. It means the end or tag on a piece of music.

Schirmer Pocket Manual of Musical Terms, Edited by Theodore Baker, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1978