Circle of Doom
Curves
Short or Long
Things we Memorize
Feelings
100
This tells time, but is also a handy visual aid for key signatures
What is a clock?
100
Two notes identical in pitch may be connected by this curve
What is a tie?
100
The word staccato, translated literally, means this
What is separated?
100
F# C# G# D# A# E# B#
What is the order of sharps?
100
This common tempo marking for "fast" literally translates from the Italian as "happy."
What is allegro?
200
We add one of these on the Circle of Fifths each time we move one position clockwise (to the right)
What is a sharp?
200
This curve can connect two notes of different pitch, but can also connect multiple notes
What is a slur?
200
This Italian word for "linked" (like a chain) will make the notes found under it sound this way
What is smooth?
200
F A C E A C E G
What are spaces (in treble and bass clefs)?
200
The word Scherzo, used as a form of music, also literally means this, something you would tell your friends to make them laugh
What is a joke?
300
There is a circle within the Circle of Fifths. This "inner circle" gives us the names of these keys.
What is minor?
300
A dotted line under the bass clef with this marking tells the player to play the notes lower by an octave
What is 8 -V - A?
300
This note has the same duration as two whole notes
What is a double whole-note?
300
Blanket exploded and Dave got cold feet
What is the order of flats?
300
Vivace
What is lively?
400
The major key at the 6 o'clock mark (the bottom) of the clock
What is F# Major (or Gb Major)
400
Sometimes mistaken for a slur, this curve shows the beginning and end of a musical idea
What is a phrase mark?
400
The red lines in this musical excerpt, called agogic accents, will make the notes sound this way
What is longer?
400
Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading Tone
What are the names of triads?
500
This is the total number of keys on the Circle of Fifths, including enharmonic keys
What is fifteen?
500
This curve above a melodic note could be realized by either 4 notes or 5 notes, including the principal note
What is a turn?
500
The first and last note in a syncopated figure is short; the note between them is this
What is long?
500
These periods of time include Baroque, Classical, and Romantic
What are musical eras?
500
Romantic composers such as Chopin wrote these, pieces that were very expressive of feelings, especially evoking nighttime
What is a Nocturne?