Chapter 1
The black keys on a keyboard.
What are flats and sharps?
The length of time a note is played.
What is note value?
The fixed, rhythmic pulse of a piece of music.
What is the beat?
A meter that is divided into three equal parts.
What is compound meter?
A series of musical notes organized by ascending or descending pitches.
What is a scale?
The five lines musical notes are written on.
What is a staff?
The passage of pitch through time.
What is rhythm?
What is a meter?
A horizontal line, used in place of flags, that connects groups of notes together to represent a single beat.
What is a beam?
W-W-H-W-W-W-H
What is the pattern of a major scale?
The attribute of a musical tone produced by the number of vibrations generating it.
What is pitch?
Breaks of silences in the music.
What is a rest?
A singular group of beats.
What is a measure?
A meter characterized by a grouping of two beats per measure.
What is duple meter?
The only minor scale without any flats or sharps so it contains only white keys.
What is A natural minor?
The shortest distance between two notes.
What is a half step?
A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch that are to be sounded as one note equal to their combined note value.
What is a tie?
The vertical stack of numbers placed at the beginning of the staff.
What is time signature?
A meter characterized by a grouping of three beats per measure.
What is triple meter?
For every major scale, there is a minor scale that uses the same sharps and flats.
What is a relative minor scale?
When two notes have the same pitch or tone but different names.
What are enharmonic equivalents?
Placed directly after a note or rest and increased the note value of a note or rest by half.
What is an augmentation dot?
Denotes in the time signature which type of note serves as the beat.
What is the bottom number?
A meter characterized by a grouping of four beats per measure.
What is quadruple meter?
The pattern of a natural minor scale.
What is W-H-W-W-H-W-W