The Basics
Key signatures
Majors and minors
Intervals
Vocabulary
100

In 4/4 time signature: a whole note plus a half note plus a quarter note equals this many beats.

What is 7 beats?

100

This shared key signature contains two sharp accidentals.

What is D major and b minor

100

In D# natural minor scale in treble clef, the scale starts on this note on a grand staff.

What is D?

100

A minor third consists of this many half steps.

What are three half steps?

100

Dotted note.

What is a dot placed beside a note increases the value of the original note by one half?

200

An eighth note contains this many flags.

What is one flag?

200

This minor key consists of 7 flats.

What is a flat?

200

C flat is the subdominant of this notes major scale.

What is G flat?

200

A perfect active consists of this many half steps.

What are 12 half steps?

200

A seven-note scale consisting of five whole steps and two half steps. The half steps occur between the second and third tones and the fifth and sixth tones.

What is natural minor scale?

300

When beaming notes together a sixteenth note has this many beams.

What are two beams?

300

The difference between G major and g sharp minor is this amount of accidentals.

What is a difference of 4?

300

C double sharp is the supertonic of this notes major scale.

What is B sharp?

300
Zero half steps represents this.

What is a perfect unison?

300

A device used by musicians that marks time at a selected rate by giving a regular tick.

What is a metronome?

400

This many sixteenth notes equal one quarter note.

What are 4 sixteenth notes?

400

In treble clef, this many sharps represent C flat Major

What is 7?

400

This note is the mediant of the D major scale.

What is F#?

400

When increasing a perfect interval or a major interval by one half step it is called this.

What is augmented?

400

A pair of equal notes to be performed in the time of three.

What is a duplet?

500

This one rest is equal to two quarter rests.

What is a half rest

500

Minor c has this many flats.

What is 3?

500

This note is the leading tone of the C-flat major scale.

What is B flat?

500

A diminished interval is when a perfect interval is decreased by this many half steps.

What is one half step?

500

The character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.

What is timbre?

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