Augmentation:
Delicate surgery for altos involving the implantation of "falsettos".

Leitmotif:
Like a regular motif, but less filling.

Riff:
What happens when someone takes your choir robe.

Score:
Basses 8, Tenors 0.
But the tenor always gets the girl...

Common time:
In an amateur chorus, approximately seven minutes after call.

Continuous imitation:
Singing behind the stick

Contralto:
An alto who has been convicted of a felony.

Polychoral Motet:
Six parrots singing "Exultate Justi".

Aleatoric Music:
Music composed by the random selection of pitches and rhythms.
Frequently found in the performance of the choir anthem.

Scat singing:
For those who know any Greek, this will be apparent...performance without
adequate preparation.

Basso Continuo:
When the conductor can't get the fools to stop singing.

madrigal:
a choral work for an insane monarch, often characterized by multiple texts
and languages sung over one another and resembling mutterings of the regent

Castrato:
The highest male voice (some alteration required.)

Etude:
What comes right before the Beatitudes.

Countermelody:
as opposed to what is written; also, what the altos sing.

Dominant:
In a choral relationship, usually the soprano.

Subdominant:
Same thing involving an alto.

Vamp:
Used by the Alto's to describe the above soprano. Sometimes also used to
describe the primo uomo.

Concerto Grosso:
An accordion concert.

mbube:
The soprano section missing the rhythm and flatting the G.

Glissando:
What directly precedes the highest note in the soprano part.

Grand Pause:
When the conductor loses his place.

Perfect Pitch:
Throwing an accordion into a dumpster without hitting the sides.

canon:
What is aimed at the loud mouthed tenor after a particularly outrageous
biff.

strain:
The same tenor singing above the staff.

Cantus Firmus:
A singer in good physical condition (as opposed to "Cantus
Flabbioso".)

meter:
Something of which the baritones know nothing

Antiphonal:
1) Screening all your calls.
2) The conductors sudden mood swing when a soprano takes a cellular call
during rehearsal.

Sackbutt:
A choral singer over 65.

Minnesingers:
Those who cannot be heard above an orchestra

Choral Partitas:
Small choir get-togethers which are frequently interrupted by the police.

Fantasia:
An alto in a leather choir robe.

Molto Agitato:
The general mood when the rehearsal still has not started 9 minutes after call.