Basics of Music
Various arrangements of durations made up of notes and rests within a time signature.
Rhythm
The musical distance between two pitches.
Interval
Natural
A symbol that negates a sharp or flat used on the next occurance of the same note.
This scale has 5 notes per scale and is the basis for lots of folk songs.
Pentatonic Scale
one flat: B
Key of F
The constant, regular beat in music defined by the bottom number of a time signature.
Pulse
(m or -)
Minor
The smallest interval in tonal music. On a keyboard, two adjacent keys. Also called a semitone.
Half Step
What minor scale does the following description reference?
Scale Pattern: W-H-W-W-H-W-W
Natural minor
No flats or sharps.
Key C
Lines = G-B-D-F-A or Good Boys Do Fine Always
Spaces= A-C-E-G or All Cars Eat Gas
Bass Clef
(A or +)
Augmented
An interval of two half-steps. On the keyboard, an key separates the two parts of the intervals.
Whole step
Which minor scale is the following an example of?
A-B-C-D-E-F-G♯-A
A harmonic minor
Intervals smaller than a semitone.
Microtones
Lines = E-G-B-D-F or Every Good Boy Does Fine or Elvis Goes Bopping Down Freeways
Spaces= F-A-C-E
Treble Clef
The number of pitches inclusive of the named pitches.
Arithmetic distance of an interval
A symbol (x) added to the notehead that raised the sound a whole-step.
Double sharp
Raise the 6th and 7th degrees of the scale one half-step ascending and lower them to the natural form descending.
Melodic minor
Which Major Key construction signatures must be memorized?
Key of C and F
Small oval shapes drawn on the staff to represent specific pitches. The whole note is the only common note without a stem attached to it.
Note heads
(P) (Only Unisons, 4ths, 5ths, Octaves)
Perfect
White keys
The keyboard keys of A-G.
C-D-E-F♯-G♯-B♭-C
Whole Tone Scale
What type of key is described?
B (5♯) sounds the same as C♭ (7 flats)
Enharmonic key