Reptiles and Fish
What is a Major Scale?
A major key signature with 4 sharps.
What is E Major?
The name for scale degree 4.
A musical texture consisting of only a single melodic line?
A short musical idea that is re-used throughout a phrase or piece of music?
What is a motive?
These are the 3 types of minor scales
What are Natural, Harmonic, and Melodic minor?
A minor key signature with 3 flats.
What is C Minor?
In minor keys, scale degree 7 must be raised in chords that have this function.
What is dominant?
What is polyphony?
A motive that is repeated several times beginning on different notes?
What is a sequence?
A minor scale with raised 6 and 7 ascending only
A major key signature with 6 sharps.
What is F# Major?
A harmonic progression at the beginning of a phrase that often includes a sequence of inverted and root position chords that return to the tonic
What is a tonic prolongation?
A musical texture in which a single melody is accompanied by harmonic material?
What is homophony?
Transforming a melody by reversing the direction of each interval.
What is inversion?
A Major Scale with a lowered 7th note
The relative minor of B Major.
What is G# minor?
A cadence that goes from V to vi
What is a deceptive cadence?
A vocal composition technique in which many notes are sung on a single syllable.
What is melisma?
Transforming a melody by increasing the duration of each note?
What is augmentation?
What is the phrygian mode?
The relative major of A-flat minor.
V42 must always go to this harmony.
What is I6?
A musical texture consisting of a a single melody performed by multiple instruments simultaneously with embellishments that are often improvised?
What is heterophony?
What is a parallel period?