Scales & keys
Melody & Transposition
Intervals
Rhythm & Texture Devices
Timbre & Texture
100
The relationship between a major key and minor key that use the same set of pitches.
Relative
100
This term describes the shape of a melody, or how it moves up and down as it progresses.
Contour
100
This interval quality has only one variety; it is neither major nor minor.
Perfect
100
This rhythmic device allows a beat of time to be divided in any number of ways; most commonly found as triplets or duplets.
Tuplet
100
The highest and lowest notes an instrument/voice can perform.
Range
200
This is the relationship between a major key and a minor key that share the same tonic pitch.
Parallel
200
This term describes a melody that moves mostly by stepwise motion.
Conjunct
200
These intervals' sizes invert to thirds.
Sixths
200
This term refers to notes that occur before the first strong beat; also known as "pickup notes."
Anacrusis
200
This texture is characterized by a single melody; it may be performed by one or more people.
Monophony
300
The total number of whole tone scales that exist.
2
300
What is the interval of transposition for the B-flat clarinet?
Major 2nd
300
This interval quality has too many half-steps for its size.
Augmented
300
This is a short, repeating rhythmic or melodic pattern that loops throughout a section.
Ostinato
300
The range in which an instrument typically plays, or typically sounds its best.
Tessitura
400
This term best describes the relationship between the keys of C major and d# minor.
Distant/distantly related
400
This term best describes this melody's contour.
Disjunct
400
Subtract this number from a compound interval to determine its uncompounded size.
7
(ex: a 9th - 7 = a 2nd)
400
This term describes when the meter sounds different than what is actually notated, most often in a 3-to-2 ratio.
Hemiola
400
This texture is not commonly found in Western music, and is characterized by multiple people performing the same melody, but with ornamentation.
Heterophony
500
These five keys are closely related to g minor.
B-flat major
F major
d minor
E-flat major
c minor
500
When this pitch is performed by the Horn in F, the written note pictured here is produced.
A
500
This note is an augmented 7th above the note pictured here.
G#
500
The texture device used in the left hand (bottom staff).
Alberti bass
500
This texture has two subtypes: imitative and non-imitative.
Polyphony