Modules 1 & 2
A unit of duration signified by an oval.
What is a whole note?
The first beat of the first measure of music.
What is the downbeat?
The major key signature with no sharps or flats
What is C major?
The Minor key signature with no sharps or flats
What is A minor?
Three or more pitches sounding simultaneously.
What is a Chord?
A symbol (x) added to the notehead that raised the sound a whole-step
What is a double sharp?
Pitches with at least two different names. (ex: B=Cb)
What is an Enharmonic Pitch?
The major key signature with only one flat
What is F major?
The Minor key signature with 3 flats.
What is C minor?
A type of chord in music that consists of three notes stacked in consecutive thirds on the diatonic scale; a root, a third, and a fifth.
What is a triad?
A unit of duration signified by a solid note head with a steam and one flag on the stem.
What is an eighth-note?
The lines and spaces above or below a staff to extend the notation higher or lower.
What are ledger lines?
The musical distance between two pitches.
What is an Interval?
What is the Harmonic Minor?
Any triad spaced further apart or in another order of notes other than root position.
What is Open Position?
A division of music separated by bar lines.
What is a measure?
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, la, ti
What is the Solfege system?
Intervals that may only be Unisons, 4ths, 5ths, and Octaves.
Perfect Intervals
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 the Blues Scale?
Dominant/Tonic progession. The most common of all chord progressions.
What is a V-I
The arrangement of the pulse in multiples of two or three.
What is a meter?
One of more beats in a partial measure before the first measure in music.
Anacrusis.
The interval quality(s) designated by 8 half steps
What is an Augmented 5th/Minor 6th?
What is the Whole Tone scale?
V-vi
What is a Deceptive Cadence?