Scales
Vocabulary
Pentatonic and Blues scale
RANDOM!!!
Do you know your history ???
100
Name the minor scale that contains 5 flats ?
What is b flat minor
100
Define accelerando
What is a tempo marking indicating a gradual change to a faster tempo
100
how many notes are in the pentatonic scale?
what is 5
100
What does the instruction "vivacissimo" tell the musician to do ?
What is play very fast and lively
100
Common time and Alla Breve have both have been used since ?
What is the middle ages/ medieval
200
Every key signature can be referred to a particular major scale and its relative minor. What is the relative minor key for D flat major
What is b flat minor
200
Define triad.
What is the basic chord of tonal music. A three note chord constructed of two superimposed thirds.
200
name the two different versions of the pentatonic scale
What is major pentatonic: C-D-E-G-A-C (W-W-W-W& 1⁄2 -W-W& 1⁄2 ) 2. minor pentatonic: A-B-C-E-F-A (W-H-W&W-H-W&W)
200
How many keys does a standard piano have and how many black ones and how many white ones?
What is 88 keys, 36 black, 52 white
200
Name the six time periods of music
What is medieval/middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical,romantic, twentieth century
300
Name the dominant of the G major scale
What is C
300
Define andante
What is a tempo marking indicating a moderate tempo, about walking speed.
300
name the three lowered blues notes
What is 3rd, 5th, 7th
300
The chromatic scale can also be understood as inflections of?
What is diatonic scale
300
what year was the renaissance period
What is 1400- 1600
400
name the ti or the leading tone of the B flat minor scale
What is A
400
define adagio
What is a tempo marking indicating a slow tempo
400
define octatonic scale
What is an eight-note scale that alternates between whole steps and half steps.
400
how many perfect intervals are there?
What is 4,perfect intervals are unison, fourths, fifths, and octaves.
400
where did the blues originate from?
What is outhern plantations in the 19th Century. Slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves . -African spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music.
500
What is the relative minor of A major ?
What is f sharp minor
500
Define movable do
What is a system of sight singing in which the tonic of any scale is always do, and the subsequent syllables are assigned to each succeeding pitch of the scale
500
What were the seven modes listed in appendix G?
What is Ionian Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian Locrian
500
what is a tonic?
what is the first degree of the scale
500
What year was the baroque era
What is 1600 - 1750 C.E
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