Basics of Music
Pitch
Major scales/key signatures
Intervals
Triads
100
These separate measures.
What are bar lines?
100
Short, individual lines used to extend the staff.
What are ledger lines?
100
An interval pattern of 5 whole steps and 2 diatonic half steps.
What is a major scale?
100
The interval where 2 pitches are sounded simultaneously.
What is a harmonic interval?
100
Triads take their name from this.
What is the root?
200
It indicates a pause of silence in sheet music.
What is a rest?
200
When two different letter names identify the same pitch.
What are enharmonic pitches?
200
This key signature has 0 sharps and 0 flats.
What is the C Major key signature?
200
2 notes separated by 4 half steps.
What is a Major 3rd interval?
200
It is composed of a minor 3rd interval above a major 3rd interval.
What is a major triad?
300
A filled in oval note with a stem.
What is a quarter note?
300
This appears below or above a group of notes indicating to play them an octave lower or higher.
What is an octave sign?
300
It has 3 sharps.
What is the A major key signature?
300
The unison, the fourth, the fifth, and the octave.
What are perfect intervals?
300
Composed of the root, the 3rd, and the 5th.
What is a triad?
400
They replace flags when several notes with flags occur together.
What is a beam?
400
This indicates degrees of loudness and softness.
What is dynamics?
400
The 7th scale degree.
What is the leading tone?
400
Intervals larger than an octave.
What is a compound interval?
400
The triad has the 5th as the lowest sound pitch.
What is second inversion?
500
Rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, texture, form.
What are the six basic elements of music?
500
Its octave identification is C4.
What is middle C?
500
Helps us maneuver through the key signatures in our mind.
What is the circle of fifths?
500
The harmonic inversion of an augmented 4th.
What is a diminished 5th?
500
Notes A, C, E.
What is the A minor triad?
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