Basics of Music
The musical notation with five parallel lines and four spaces between the lines.
What is the staff
Music written with major and minor scales.
What is tonal music
The scale that is represented on the inside of the circle of fifths.
What is the minor scale
Major, Minor, Diminished, and Augmented.
What are the four qualities of triads
This occurs when two notes are played one after the other.
What is a melodic interval
Another name for the G clef.
What is the treble clef
A musical scale with twelve pitches, each semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.
What is a chromatic scale
E minor equivalent on the major scale
What is G major
This triad is formed on degrees on I, IV, and V.
What is the major scale
The interval that has a number of zero half steps.
What is perfect unison
The speed at which a piece of music moves.
What is tempo
Interval pattern of five whole steps and two diatonic half steps.
What is a major scale
This major scale has four flats
What is A flat major
A triad that consists of two superimposed minor thirds.
What is the diminished triad
The interval that is larger than one octave.
What is a compound interval
This appears at the beginning at a piece of music with the top number telling us the meter and the bottom number identifying the pulse beat.
What is a time signature
Refers to the minor key or scale that is related to a particular major scale by having the same key signature.
What is a relative minor
The sequence of pitches in circle of fifths
What is BEADGCF
This is always a major triad with an added minor seventh above the root.
What is the dominant seventh chord
To move the lowest note in a group an octave higher.
What is harmonic inversion
Signs that are used to alter the pitch of a note chromatically such as a sharp, flat, double sharp, double flat and natural.
What is an accidental
The position of subdominant.
What is the fourth scale degrees
This happens when the same set of pitches can be indicated by either sharps or flats.
When do enharmonic keys occur
The triad that has the fifth as the lowest sounding pitch.
What is second inversion
It denotes or contains an interval which is one semitone less than the corresponding minor or perfect interval.
What is a diminished interval