Key Signatures
and Scales (Med.)
and Scales (Med.)
A key signature with no sharps and no flats indicates this minor key.
What is "a minor?"
For example, the interval between C and G, with C on the bottom.
What is a perfect fifth?
D, F#, and A, stacked in thirds with D on the bottom.
What is a D Major triad in root position?
Motion where two voices move in opposite directions.
What is contrary motion?
A meter in which a measure is made up of four beats, and the beat is felt in quarter notes.
What is 4/4 or Common Time?
In order, the notes are: Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb, C, D, Eb.
What is an Eb Major scale?
For example, the interval between B and G, with B on the bottom.
What is a minor 6th?
A stack of four notes, each a minor third apart from bottom to top. For example, B, D, F, Ab.
What is a fully diminished seventh chord?
For example, the motion from an A and a C# moving to a B and a D.
What is parallel motion?
A time signature that indicates a meter of compound quadruple, with a dotted quarter note receiving the big beat.
What is 12/8?
A key signature with 2 sharps indicates this Major key.
What is "D Major?"
An interval that is two semitones apart, with one on a line and another on the space adjacent to it.
What is a major 2nd/whole step?
C, Eb, G, and Bb, stacked in thirds, with C on the bottom.
What is a Cm7 chord?
What is "stationary" motion?
A type of scale that uses different pitches on the way up and the way down, based on the context.
What is melodic minor?
In order, the notes are D#, E#, F#, G#, A#, B, CX, D#.
What is a D# harmonic minor scale?
For example, an A and an E, but with more than an octave between them, and the A on the bottom.
What is a compound 5th?
In Bb Major: F, A, and C stacked in thirds, with A on the bottom.
What is a V6 chord?
Though moving in the same direction, one voice moves up a third while the other voice moves up a fourth, for example.
What is similar motion?
The numbered figures for a seventh chord in second inversion.
What is 4/3?
This key signature has 7 flats and shows a major and minor key.
What is Cb Major/Ab minor?
For example, F, and Ebb, with F on the bottom.
What is a diminished 7th?
In Cm: D, F, Ab, and C stacked in thirds, with F on the bottom.
What is a ii-half-diminished 6/5 chord?
The motion involved between a half note in one voice, and two quarter notes at different pitches in another voice.
What is oblique motion?
Often found in dominant harmonies, the interval inverts to a Major 2nd.
What is a minor 7th?