Notation
These are the 2 most common clefs in music
What are the treble and bass clefs?
Chord quality for a chord spelled C - E - G
What is a major chord?
Note value that is half of a half note
What is a quarter note?
Top voice of a 4-part texture
What is soprano (voice)?
Technique of changing and/or alternating meters quickly
What is mixed meter?
Part of a note value with flag (like eighth notes, sixteenth, 32nd, etc.)
What is a beam?
Term describing the resolution of a chord, occurring at the end of a phrase
What is a cadence?
Meter type containing 2 beats and subdivides into 2
What is simple duple?
Progression consisting of I(8)64 - V(7)53 - I
What is a cadential 6/4?
Chord built from Perfect 5ths
What is a quintal chord?
Name of the staff used in piano scores
What is a grand staff?
Major key with 4 flats
Ab Major
Technique of the apparent presence of one meter in another
What is a hemiola?
Non-chord tone approached by step and left by leap
What is an escape tone?
Technique of stacking 2 or more different chords
What is a polychord?
Name of the document with all the part staves, where every instrument is notated with their written pitches; used by a conductor
What is a transposed score?
Chord acting as the point of modulation
What is a pivot chord?
A note, usually divided in 2, which is divided into 3
What is a triplet?
Technique of trading notes between the soprano and bass voice; used in passing 6/4 chords
What is cross-voicing?
Scale consisting of only whole steps/M2
What is a whole-tone scale?
What is a stacatissimo?
Chord resulting from the 3rd and 5th of a triad stepping down to the note below (which then resolves back up to the original chord).
Ex. C - E - G - C| C - D# - F# - C | C - E - G - C
What is a common-tone diminished seventh/CTo7 chord?
Ornamentation quickly played before a note, falling before the beat
What is a grace note/acciaccatura?
In a V7 - I progression, you resolve to this when the I chord is complete (it contains scale degrees 1, 1, 3, 5)
What is an incomplete V7 chord?
Compositional technique that uses pitch-class and pitch class sets
What is serialism?