Modern school

Music Vocabulary Pronunciation
to be out of tune – to play or sing slightly wrong notes

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   My dad likes to sing along the radio but is so out of tune that it sounds terrible.
   

to be in tune – to play or sing with the correct pitch

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   Before the performance, the guitarist tightenend the strings of his guitar so that it was in tune.
   

to have a great voice – to sing well

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   I think my friend should enter the singing competition as she has a great voice.
   

to be tone deaf – to be unable to distinguish the different notes in music

- I’d really like to able to sing but I'm tone deaf so I don’t think there’s much chance.

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chorus – a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a song

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   The choir sang lots of well-known songs and encourages the audience to sing along to the choruses.
   

upbeat – cheerful or lively

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   If I’m feeling sad I put on some upbeat music and feel better almost at once. nursery rhyme – a simple traditional song or poem for children
   
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   I can still remember many of the nursery rhymes I learnt as a child.
   

lullaby – a quiet, gentle song sung to send a child to sleep

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   If my baby wakes up in the night I just sing him a lullaby and he soon goes back to sleep.
   

sing to sleep – to make someone feel sleepy by sing them a gentle song

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   My mum used to sing us to sleep when we were young.