Musical Markings and Terms
The right pedal at the bottom of the piano, played with the foot.
What is the damper pedal?
C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, B, C
What is a C minor (harmonic) scale?
C, E, and G.
What are the three notes in a C Major Chord?
Block chords and broken chords.
What are two types of left hand ways to accompany?
When the order of notes in a chord are changed around.
What is an inversion?
A musical symbol that indicates you should hold the note underneath it for longer than its regular value.
What is a fermata?
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.
What is a C Major Scale?
C, Eb, G.
What are the three notes in a C minor chord?
When most of the melody notes are scale tones 2, 4, 5, and 7.
What is the right time to use dominant (V) in harmonizing a melody?
When the root of the chord is moved to the top of the chord.
What is the first inversion?
A note that has the same value as an eighth note tied to a sixteenth note.
What is a dotted eighth note?
A broken chord, often played in a two octave span in our class.
What is an arpeggio?
C, Eb, Gb.
What are the three notes in a C diminished chord?
When the melody notes are primarily scale tones 1, 3, and 5.
What is the right time to use tonic (I) in harmonizing a melody?
When a first-inversion triad is inverted again by moving the lowest note to the top.
What is the second inversion?
To play in “march style”.
What is alla marcia?
A series of four notes having a pattern of note, whole step, whole step, half step.
What is a tetrachord?
C, E, G#.
What are the three notes in a C augmented chord?
When another note is added onto a dominant (V) triad, a seventh above the root.
What is a V7 chord?
The numbers 6 and 4 showing after a “I” chord or a “V” chord or any other chord.
What are the numbers written after a second inversion chord name?
The left hand plays the right hand part when this musical symbol appears in the bass clef.
What is the treble clef?
Two tetrachords joined by a whole step.
What is a major scale?
B, F, G.
What are the three notes in a C Major V65 chord?
The chord member (or note) often removed in a V7 chord.
What is the 5th note of the chord?
The -65- after a V chord indicates this.
What is a third inversion form?
A seventh chord is the only one that has this.
What is the only chord type that can have a third inversion?