Rythym
Pitch
Terms & Symbols
Sight Singing
Odds and Ends
100
Is the steady pulse of all music.
What is beat?
100
The combination of three or more notes played or sung at the same time.
What is a chord?
100
Symbols in music used to indicate how loud or soft to sing.
What is dynamics?
100
Determined by its hometone or keynote.
What is a key?
100
Is any meter in which the quarter note receives the beat and the division of the beat is based on 2 eighth notes.
What is a simple meter?
200
Is a note that represtents three beats of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is a dotted half note?
200
Is a chord built on the home tone of keytone of a scale.
What is a tonic chord?
200
Is a symbol placed above or below a given note that indicates the note should receive extra emphasis or stress.
What is an accent?
200
Is a group of notes that are sung or played in succession and are based on a particular hometone or keynote.
What is a scale?
200
Is another name for an altered pitch.
What is an accidental?
300
A note that represents four beats of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is whole note?
300
Is a chord built on the fifth note of a scale.
What is a dominant chord?
300
Occurs when the accent is placed on notes that normally do not receive extra emphasis.
What is syncopation?
300
Another name for 2-2 meter.
What is cut time?
300
Is a scale that starts and ends on re.
What is a Dorian scale?
400
Is a rest that represents four beats of silence when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is a whole rest?
400
Is a scale that has DO as its home tone, or keynote.
What is a major scale?
400
Is a set of two barlines that indicate the end of a piece or section of music.
What is a double barline?
400
Is a note that represents one quarter beat of sound when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is a 16th note?
400
Is a scale that starts and ends on do.
What is an Ionian scale?
500
Is a rest that represents half a beat of silence when the quarter note receives the beat.
What is an eighth rest?
500
Is the combination of two half steps side by side.
What is a whole step?
500
Is a vertical line that groups notes and rests together.
What is a barline?
500
Is any meter in which the dotted quarter note receives the beat and the division of the beat is based on 3 eighth notes.
What is a compound meter?
500
Is a scale that starts and ends on fa.
What is a Lydian scale?
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