This scale is like the aeolian mode, but the 7th step has been raised.
What is harmonic minor?
100
This is another name for 3/4 time.
What is simple triple time?
100
These are the perfect intervals smaller than an octave.
What are fourths, fifths, and unisons.
100
These are the objectionable parallel intervals in common-practice part-writing.
What are fifths and octaves?
100
This is the most conclusive cadence of all.
What is a perfect authentic cadence?
200
This major key-signature has 4 sharps.
What is E major?
200
The time signature for compound duple time, where the eighth-note gets the beat, is written this way.
What is 6/8 time?
200
This triad is made up of two minor thirds stacked on top of one another.
What is a diminished triad?
200
We strive to have as much of this between voices as possible.
What is contrary motion?
200
In a minor key, this cadence moves from iv6 to V, most recognizable by a half-step descent in the bass.
What is Phrygian half-cadence?
300
This mode is like the major scale, if you started and ended on the subdominant.
What is the Lydian mode?
300
Composers use this technique toward the end of a piece in 3/4 time, making two measures of three become three measures of two beats.
What is hemiola?
300
Only occurring in minor, this seventh chord is built on the leading tone.
What is fully-diminished seventh chord?
300
This non-chord tone is prepared by the step below but resolves by skip or leap down.
What is an escape tone (or echappe)?
300
Every chord progression must have these two classes of chords.
What are tonic- and dominant-class?
400
This mode is like a natural minor scale, but with a raised 6th scale degree.
What is the Dorian mode?
400
This is the rate of change of Roman numerals in a piece of music.
What is harmonic rhythm?
400
Often left out in figured bass notation, this number can be replaced by a sharp, indicating that you are raising the leading-tone in this chord.
What is a 3?
400
When one pitch class is chromatically altered in another voice in an adjacent chord, we call the error this.
What is a cross-relation?
400
This happens when chords move in an unexpected order, such as V-IV or ii-vi.
What is a retrogression?
500
The famous song by Lordes is actually in the mixolydian mode.
What is "Royals."
500
When doubling the length of notes in a transformed motive, you are said to have done this.
What is augmentation?
500
When a minor piece ends with a major chord, we use this term to describe the middle of the triad.
What is a Picardy third?
500
When the soprano moves from scale degrees 3 to 2 to 1, and the bass does the opposite (1 to 2 to 3), this middle triad implied is one of these two possibilities.
What is a V6/4 or vii6 chord?
500
Christian hymns used to end with this cadence, adding the word "A-men."