Cadences
A common compound duple time signature
What is 6/8?
You should avoid consecutive 5ths in different voices, which is an error known as this
What are parallel 5ths?
This type of NCT is approached by step and left by step in the same direction
What is a passing tone?
What is the relative major of C Minor?
What is Eb major?
Fill in the blanks. In simple meter, the bottom number tells you _______. In compound meter, the bottom number tells you _________.
What is "What note gets one beat" and "What note gets one division"?
The MOST unsatisfying cadence
What is a half-cadence?
For good spacing, there must not be more than this interval between the Soprano and Tenor OR between the Alto and Soprano
What is an octave?
This type of NCT occurs when a melody note implies a coming change in harmony that has not yet occured
What is an anticipation?
This error occurs when a lower voice goes higher in pitch than the voice above it.
What is part crossing or voice crossing?
This type of cadence has three variations: Root, LT, and Inversion.
What is IAC?
This chord progression is IV --> I
What is plagal?
This voice writing error occurs when the following criteria occur 1) Soprano and Bass have similar motion 2) The soprano leaps 3) The resultant interval between Soprano and Bass is an octave or a fifth
What are direct or hidden octaves/fifths?
This type of NCT consists of two consecutive NCTs that "sandwich" a chord tone
What is a Neighbor Group?
When writing an incomplete chord, this chord part may be omitted without committing an egregious error.
What is the 5th?
This NCT is approached by step and left by leap.
What is an Escape Tone?
This type of cadence ends on a vi chord
What is deceptive?
The leading tone must always resolve up to tonic UNLESS...
The leading tone occurs in an inner voice (Alto or Tenor)
This type of NCT occurs when a sustained or rearticulated pitch, usually in the bass, does not change with the harmonies. Instead, it alternates between being a consonance and a dissonance against the changing harmonies
What is a pedal tone or pedal point?
If the tenor voice is singing an F3, then the alto voice cannot go any higher than this pitch.
What is F4?
Timbre is the ____ of sound.
What is color or quality?
A perfect authentic cadence must have these two qualities
This type of motion occurs when one voice part remains stationary and another moves in any direction
What is oblique?
This NCT is approached by step and left by leap
What is an escape tone?
This key signature is the only major flat key signature that doesn't have a flat in the name of the key.
What is F Major?
Name the interval from C# to Fb.
What is doubly diminished 4th?