Italian Terms
Symbols
Intervals
Scales
Chords
100
This tempo term means broad and very slow.
What is largo?
100
This accidental raises the note a half step.
What is sharp?
100
This type of "third" interval contains 3 half steps.
What is minor?
100
This minor scale contains 3 flats in its key signature.
What is c minor?
100
This chord contains the notes C, E, and G in order from bottom to top.
What is C chord?
200
This dynamic term means little by little.
What is poco a poco?
200
This symbol cancels out all accidentals.
What is natural sign?
200
This is the "magic" number when inverting intervals.
What is 9?
200
This key is the relative minor key of C Major.
What is a minor?
200
This kind of inversion only occurs with 7th chords.
What is third inversion?
300
This articulation uses a dot above the note it affects and means short and separated.
What is staccato?
300
This symbol when placed above or below a note, tells the musician to hold or sustain that note. (It says precisely that in the book on page 97).
What is tenuto?
300
These intervals are larger than an octave.
What is compound intervals?
300
This minor scale raises the seventh note in the scale outside of the key signature.
What is harmonic minor?
300
This chord appears as V

7

What is dominant seventh?
400
If I was composing a piece of music and I wanted to make the notes gradually louder, I would use this term.
What is crescendo?
400
These accidentals are used sparingly in music.
What are double sharps and double flats?
400
A major 9th converts to this compound interval.
What is a compound major 2nd?
400
This scale contains 6 different pitches and no half steps.
What is whole tone?
400
The figured bass for this inversion is 6/3.
What is 1st inversion?
500
The following terms have this in common. Largo, andante, adagio, ritardando.
What is slow dynamics?
500
This symbol is used to signify that there should be no audible spaces between notes.
What is slur?
500
The following are examples of this kind of interval. m2---> M7, P5--->P4, +3 ---> °6
What is inverted?
500
This scale can be either minor or major and contains five different pitches.
What is pentatonic?
500
This note appears as the root in the second inversion.
What is the top note of the triad?
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