Choir Crossword Puzzle

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Answer key: Choir Crossword

1C2HORUS3UA4T5CONCERTEOIM6BNNS7SOPRANODONERUNYACTTHO8B9A10REHEARSALSTS11SOLO

Across 1 CHORUS · 5 CONCERT · 7 SOPRANO · 10 REHEARSAL · 11 SOLO

Down 2 HARMONY · 3 UNISON · 4 TENOR · 5 CONDUCTOR · 6 BREATH · 8 BASS · 9 ALTO

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Voice Parts and Ranges 28

  • Alto Part for low women's or high men's voices
  • Baritone The most common male voice; its Greek root means low sounding
  • Bass Bottom line of a four-part choir
  • Breath Air taken in before a long note
  • Cords Vocal ___: folds of tissue whose length affects pitch
  • Diaphragm As it contracts, the room inside the rib cage grows
  • Falsetto Light voice above the normal one; the name is a diminutive of the Italian for untrue
  • Hum Lips shut, tune still going
  • Larynx Part of the neck commonly called the voice box
  • Lungs Pair that acts as a singer's air supply
  • Mezzo Short name for the female voice that lies in the middle of three
  • Modal ___ voice: another name for the normal voice
  • Monotone A single unvarying pitch, with no rise or fall
  • Nose Where a closed-mouth tune has to come out
  • Overtone ___ singing: technique of producing two distinct pitches at once
  • Passaggio Classical term for the transition area between one part of the voice and the next
  • Phonate Make voiced sound with the vocal folds
  • Range Span of pitches a human voice can produce
  • Register Series of tones made by one pattern of movement of the vocal folds
  • SATB Four letters for the standard parts of a choir of men and women
  • Soprano Top line of a four-part choir
  • Tenor The higher of the two men's parts
  • Tessitura The stretch of notes where a given singer is most comfortable
  • Throat Sore here, and singing is hard
  • Timbre What lets a listener know an oboe from a clarinet, or one voice from the next
  • Treble Name still used for a boy's high voice
  • Vibrato Regular, pulsating change of pitch that adds expression
  • Vocalist Singer, in one word

Singing Together 22

  • A cappella Performed without any instrumental accompaniment
  • Balance Even loudness from part to part
  • Blend What voices do when nobody sticks out
  • Counterpoint From the Latin for point against point
  • Descant By its roots, a voice above or removed from the others
  • Divisi Instruction, printed as div, to split one group into smaller ones
  • Drone Tone sounded continuously through most or all of a piece
  • Duet Two singers, equal partners
  • Ensemble Musical group of any size, typically known by a name of its own
  • Harmony What the other parts add to the tune
  • Homophony Texture in which one part predominates and the others support it
  • Intonation Being in tune, or not: a musician's pitch accuracy
  • Melody The line of a song you walk away whistling
  • Monophony Texture with just one voice or line
  • Octet Group of eight singers
  • Polyphony Texture of two or more independent lines of tune at once
  • Response Call and ___: one musician offers, a second answers
  • Round Also called a perpetual canon: voices enter one by one with the same tune
  • Section All the singers of one part, seated together
  • Solo One singer steps out front for this
  • Triad The most common stack of three notes sounded at once
  • Unison All voices on one line, no splitting

In Rehearsal 26

  • Accompanist Supporting player, often seated at the keys
  • Audition Sample performance by someone who hopes to get in
  • Baton Stick that enlarges a director's hand movements
  • Choirmaster One of three titles for the person who leads the singers
  • Conductor Leader who directs with gestures
  • Consonant Sound such as t or k that starts or ends a word
  • Cue Nod or glance that says come in now
  • Cutoff Hand signal that ends the sound
  • Diction Clear speech: the art of making each word understood
  • Downbeat First beat of the bar
  • Folder Holder for a singer's printed pages
  • Memorize Get a piece off the page and into your head
  • Pitch pipe Small device that gives musicians a reference note
  • Podium Raised platform the director stands on, beside a large stand for the full score
  • Posture A singer's stance, from feet to shoulders
  • Rehearsal Weekly practice for the whole choir
  • Risers Stepped platforms for the back rows
  • Sight-read Perform a piece you have not seen or learned before
  • Solfège Teaching system that gives each note of the scale a name to sing
  • Tempo How fast: a marking counted in beats per minute
  • Tuning fork U-shaped bar on a stem; tap it and it holds one fixed tone
  • Twister Tongue ___: tricky line used as an exercise for clear speech
  • Upbeat The preparatory beat before a choir begins
  • Vowel Open sound, such as ah or oo, that carries the tone
  • Warm-up Series of exercises that prepare the voice
  • Yawn Sleepy stretch of the jaw

Choirs and What They Sing 36

  • Anthem Song of celebration that stands for a group, such as a nation
  • Antiphon Short sacred piece sung in reply; the phone in its Greek name means voice
  • Applause Clapping; from the Latin for to strike upon
  • Audience The listeners in the seats
  • Barbershop Unaccompanied style for four parts, named for a kind of shop
  • Cantata Vocal work in several movements; the name is Italian for sung
  • Cantor Person who leads people in singing; also called a chanter
  • Carol Festive song, once sometimes danced to
  • Cathedral Large church; the British kind long had a choir of boys and men
  • Chamber ___ choir: small group of roughly 8 to 40
  • Chant Gregorian ___: unaccompanied sacred song in Latin
  • Chapel Kapellmeister literally means master of the ___ choir
  • Chorale Name of several forms that began with a Lutheran church tune
  • Chorister Member of a choir, in one word
  • Chorus Another word for a choir
  • Concert Evening when a choir sings for the public
  • Encore From the French for again: one more after the last piece
  • Glee ___ club: group named after a form of English part song
  • Hymn Its Greek root means a song of praise
  • Madrigal Secular vocal form most typical of the Renaissance
  • Mass Musical setting, typically of five movements, the first being the Kyrie
  • Medley Piece made from parts of existing pieces, one after another
  • Mixed Word for a choir of male and female voices, perhaps the most common type
  • Motet Vocal form with words, from medieval times to the present
  • Oratorio Large work with narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra, with minimal staging
  • Ovation Standing ___: seated listeners rise while clapping
  • Partsong Secular piece written or arranged for several vocal lines
  • Plainsong Body of sacred single-line tunes of the Western Church, with Latin text
  • Program Folded sheet that lists tonight's order
  • Quire Old spelling for the part of a church where the singers sit
  • Repertoire The works a group has ready; it began as a French word with an accent
  • Requiem Its name is Latin for rest
  • Robe Long gown some choirs wear
  • Show ___ choir: group that adds choreographed dance
  • Stalls Rows of seats along the sides of a medieval church's singers' area
  • Swing ___ choir: what a dancing choir was previously known as

Marks in the Score 19

  • Barline Vertical line that bounds a bar
  • Comma Punctuation mark that the sign for taking air looks like
  • Crescendo Italian word that translates as increasing
  • Da capo Italian for from the beginning; D.C. for short
  • Dynamics Louds and softs, as a set of markings
  • Fermata Sign that a note should be prolonged; also called a hold
  • Forte Marking that means loud
  • Hairpin Nickname, like wedge, for the opening or closing sign for a change in loudness
  • Legato Marking whose Italian name means tied together
  • Libretto The words to an opera or other extended work
  • Luftpause German name for the sign that tells a performer to take air
  • Lyrics The words under the notes
  • Phrase Unit that has a complete musical sense of its own
  • Refrain Line or lines that come back again and again
  • Repeat ___ sign: it indicates that a passage should be performed again
  • Signature Time ___: figures that tell how many note values fit in each bar
  • Stave UK name for the set of five horizontal lines
  • Syllable Piece of a word printed under one note
  • Verse Stanza of a song; the first one opens it

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for grades 4 to 12, in five sets. Terms and word origins were checked against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and, for the voice parts and the sacred forms, The American Heritage Dictionary (ahdictionary.com) in October 2026. No song title, composer or performer is named. Sacred forms are clued as kinds of music only. Licence: own work

How it works

This choir crossword puzzle prints on Letter or A4, answer key included. The first puzzle has 12 words, among them Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Harmony, Unison, Conductor and Rehearsal.

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Five sets after the basics

Voice Parts and Ranges has Baritone, Falsetto, Tessitura and Larynx. Singing Together has Descant, Divisi, Polyphony and A cappella. In Rehearsal has Baton, Solfège, Diction and Downbeat. Choirs and What They Sing has Madrigal, Motet, Cantata and Oratorio. Marks in the Score has Fermata, Legato, Crescendo and Da capo.

Word roots in the clues

Several clues turn on where a word comes from: Baritone from the Greek for low sounding, Cantata from the Italian for sung, Legato for tied together, Requiem from the Latin for rest, and Encore from the French for again.

  • No song title and no composer is named, so the sheet fits any repertoire.

Questions and answers

Is there a printable choir crossword puzzle with answers?

Yes. Press Print and the answer key comes out last, with the grid filled in, so you can keep that sheet at the piano. It is free, with no sign-up.

What grade is the choir crossword puzzle for?

Choir Basics suits grades 4 to 6. The five themed sets suit middle and high school chorus, with answers such as Tessitura, Polyphony and Luftpause. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

What are the four voice parts in a choir?

Soprano, alto, tenor and bass, often abbreviated SATB. An adult mixed choir of these four is perhaps the most common type. All four are answers in Choir Basics, and SATB is an answer in Voice Parts and Ranges.

What does a cappella mean?

Performed without any instrumental accompaniment. A cappella is an answer in Singing Together; in the grid it fills nine squares with no gap.

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