Scales & Modes
Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Sub-dominant, Dominant, Sub-mediant & Leading tone, tonic. Also identified by the Solfege: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do.
What are Major Scale degree names? Or "Formal Names"?
A curved symbol with a dot that indicates a note or rest should be held longer than its written value.
What is a Fermata?
This has one or more beats in a partial measure, before the first measure in Music, also known as the Upbeat.
What is an Anacrusis?
The arithmetic distance and half-step count is a method that determines this...
What is "Interval Quality"?
This Major Key Signature has 5 sharps.
What is B Major?
This amorphis scale is comprised of 6 equidistant
pitches and has no tonal center. It can be played simply with two augmented triads whose roots are a major second apart. Used in Claude Debussy's Voiles.
What is a Whole Tone scale?
This symbol has a C with a vertical line drawn through it, commonly known as "Cut Time". A muscial Meter, and represents a 2/2 time signature.
What is Alla Breve?
known by it's one strong and two weak pulses, it varies from 3/8, 3/4 to 3/2 time.
What is triple Meter?
This "two-chord" progression moves or resolves to the Tonic chord (I), from the Sub-Dominant (IV) chord.
What is a Plagal Cadence?
This minor key with 4 flats, is the relative minor key to Ab Major.
What is F minor?
This 6 note scale has a step pattern of m3-W-H-H-m3-W. It shares both major & minor tonalities and has origins in African music. It uses a distinct pitch between the 4th & 5th degree of a Natural Minor Scale, which its similar to.
What is a "Blues Scale"?
To play a note very short and forceful with a detached accent.
What is staccatissimo?
Pitches can always have at least two different names. As examples of (G=Fx, C♭=B, D♯=E♭), which these represent.
What are Enharmonic pitches? (Enharmonic Equivalent)?
double diminished-diminished-minor-Major-Augmented-Double Augmented (dd-d-m-M-A-AA) From smallest to largest indicate and identify these...
What are Major and Minor Intervals (2nds, 3ths, 6ths & 7ths)
This Meter includes the time signatures of 6/16, 9/16, 12/16; 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; 6/4, 9/4, 12/4.
What is Common Compound Meter?
This unique scale sharpens the 6th & 7th degree, but only in the ascending form, as these raised notes return to their natural pitch on the way down.
What is a Melodic minor Scale.
This term indicates dividing rhythms into subdivisions of 3,5,7 etc. The most common being "Triplets", for instance; three triplet quavers to a "crotchet", or three in the time of two.
What is a Tuplet?
This British term names a musical note value that is one 64th of a whole note (or semibreve). Played at half the duration of a 32nd note.
What is a Hemidemisemiquaver ?
This numerical fraction is used to indicate the second inversion of a Dominant 7th chord.
What is 4/3 or V 4/3?
This key signature is the enharmonic eqivalent of A sharp minor, and also the relative minor key of D flat major.
What is Bb minor?
This Diatonic pattern of half & whole steps is: H-W-W-H-W-W-W and is known for its dissonant or diminished quality.
What is Locrian Mode?
This symbol 8vb-----(or 8ba) with an upturned bracket, derived from Latin meaning "eighth", is used to indicate that bass notes should be played one octave below or lower than written when placed below a a staff.
What is all' Ottava Bassa? (or Ottava Bassa)?
Common time signatures that feature the dotted quarter note as the beat. Eighth notes would be beamed in multiples of three in 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 time.
What is Compound Meter?
If you count up seven pitches from a bottom note (F) on a staff, to a top note (E), and then add a flat (b) accidental to the top note E, you will have identified the quality of this Interval.
What is a minor 7th?
"DAILY DOUBLE"!
B E A D G C F is the progression of flat notes (b) which identify this Major Key signature.
What is Cb Major?