Chapter 1
White Keys – Uses the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Black Keys – All have a letter plus an accidental such as a flat (♭) or a sharp (♯)
What is Keyboard?
The first beat of the first measure of music.
What is Downbeat?
The musical distance between two pitches.
What is Interval?
major pentatonic: C-D-E-G-A-C
minor pentatonic: A-B-C-E-F-A
What is Two common versions?
Three or more pitches sounding simultaneously.
What is Chord?
Five lines and four spaces used to define a specific set of pitches when used with a clef.
What is Staff?
Examples of simple time include 2/8, 4/8; 2/4, 3/4, 4/4; 2/2, 3/2, 4/2.
What is Simple meter?
(dd)
What is Double Diminished?
A merger between pentatonic and major-minor tonalities with African elements that is still prevalent in many aspects of pop and jazz music of today.
What is Blues Scale?
Closed position, also called Root Position has two superimposed thirds.
What is Closed Position?
Various arrangements of durations made up of notes and rests within a time signature.
What is Rhythm?
C is also 4/4 - the symbol is below:
What is Common Time?
The two dots inside a double bar to signify going back to repeat the phrase or section.
What is Repeat signs?
The pentatonic scale has 5 notes per scale and is the basis for lots of folk songs.
What is Pentatonic Scale?
A triad in root position is constructed of two superimposed intervals of a third. The three notes of the triad in order bottom to top (root position): root, third, fifth.
What is Structure of a Triad?
A unit of duration signified by an oval.
What is Whole Note?
A partial measure with a single beat before the first measure in music sometimes also called an anacrusis.
What is Upbeat?
(d or 0)
What is Diminished?
The lowering of the 3rd, 5th, 7th pitches by one half-step in a major scale is one way to create a Blues scale. The other way to create a Blues scale (which may be easier) is to look at it as a natural minor scale without the second and sixth pitches and adding the one "blues note" between the 4th and 5th notes of the original minor scale.
What is Blues notes?
The formal names of Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading tone, Tonic refer to the triads positioned on each one of these scale degrees which share the same name.
What is Triads and Scales?
A unit of duration signified by a solid note head with a stem and two flags on the stem.
What is Sixteenth note?
One or more beats in a partial measure before the first measure in music.
What is Anacrusis?
A symbol (x) added to the notehead that raised the sound a whole-step.
What is Double sharp?
The whole tone scale of six pitches equidistant apart by the interval of a whole step.
What is Whole Tone Scale?
A triad in root position is constructed of two superimposed intervals of a third. The three notes of the triad in order bottom to top (root position): root, third, fifth.
What is Structure of a Triad?