Music Basics
This note is used most frequently in music
What is a quarter note?
Dynamic meaning "soft"
What is piano?
The major key signature with no flats or sharps
What is C major?
An interval with zero half steps
What is perfect unison?
Three-note chords built of two superimposed thirds
What is a triad?
These notes get three counts each
What are dotted half notes?
Dynamic meaning "loud"
What is forte?
The major key signature with one sharp
What is G major?
Intervals larger than an octave
What are compound intervals?
Three notes of the triad all contained within one octave
What is closed position?
If this appears before to a note, the note is raised one half step.
What is a sharp?
Dynamic meaning "becoming louder"
What is crescendo?
The minor key signature with three flats
What is c minor?
The sum of an interval plus its inversion
What is nine?
Notes of a triad that are spaced and can no longer be contained in the octave
What is open position?
The frequency at which a given sound vibrates
What is pitch?
Dynamic meaning "little by little"
The major key signature with 7 sharps
What is C sharp major?
A perfect interval with five half steps
What is a perfect fourth?
A triad made up of two minor thirds
What is a diminished triad?
The meter that receives two pulses per measure (One weak pulse and one strong pulse)
What is duple meter?
Dynamic meaning "suddenly"
What is subito?
The minor key signature with 7 flats
What is a flat minor?
An augmented interval with ten half steps
What is an augmented sixth?
A triad in which the root moves up an octave
What is the first inversion of a triad?