Music Fundamentals
Music is written on this
What is a staff?
A collection of notes, organized around a central pitch
What is a Scale?
Order of Flats
What is BEADGCF?
The distance between two notes
What is an interval?
Names of the pitches that make up a triad and seventh chord
Pitches that are too low or too high are written on these
What are leger lines?
Scale degree names
What is a tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, and leading tone?
Order of Sharps
What is FCGDAEB?
When two notes occur simultaneously, when two notes occur one after the other.
What is a harmonic interval and a melodic interval?
Qualities of triads and the 3rd that are stacked to make them?
Major triad - Major on bottom, minor on top
Minor triad - Minor on bottom, major on top
Diminished triad - Minor on minor
Augmented Triad - major on major
The four clefs used in music and an instrument that uses it
What are Treble clef, Bass Clef, Alto Clef and Tenor Clef
Order of half steps and whole steps to create a scale
What is WWHWWWH?
Sharps and flats in a scale, written at the beginning of the musical line
What is a Key Signature
The five interval qualities
What is perfect, diminished, minor, major and augmented?
What are the inversions for triads and seventh chords, and their figures
Root - Bass in the bottom - 5/3 or 7
First inversion - third in the bottom - 6/3 or 6/5
Second inversion - fifth in the bottom - 6/4 or 4/3
Third inversion - seventh in the bottom - 4/2
1 chromatic step apart and 2 chromatic steps apart
What are half steps and whole steps?
The 3 types of minor scales and how they are altered
Natural Minor - add 3 flats
Harmonic Minor - Raise the 7th
Melodic Minor - Raise the 6th and 7th on the way up and lower them back down on the way down
How to find a flat key
What is go to the second to last flat
When you shift one note in an interval up the octave it creates an _______? This changes their size and qualitiy.
What is an inversion?
Seventh chord qualities and their sevenths and triads that make them up
Dominante
Minor
Half diminished
Fully diminished
the 5 types of accidentals and what they do to a note
What is a sharp, flat, double sharp, double flat and natural?
Sharp raises a note by a half step
Double sharp raises a note by a whole step
Natural brings it back to normal position
Flat lowers a note by a half step
Double flat lowers a note by a whole step
Major and Minor keys that share the same key signature
Major and Minor keys that share the same tonic
What is a Relative Key? What is a parallel key?
How to find a sharp key
Intervals that are larger than an octave
What is a compound interval?
What color is the sky?
Blue