Tonal Music
Music in which one tone generally predominates over the other tones is called this type of music
What is tonal music?
What is three?
The triad that is built on the first degree of the scale (the keynote) has this proper name.
What is the tonic?
The key signature consists of a group of either of these accidentals.
What are sharps and flats?
A scale is this arrangement of tones
What is stepwise?
The keynote of the B-Flat major scale
What is B-Flat?
Within the system of tonal harmony triads are constructed of these superimposed intervals
What are thirds?
The tonic triad is build on this degree of the scale
What is the first degree of the scale?
This is the group of sharps or flats that appers just to the right of the clef sign
What is a key signature?
In a stepwise series of tones, the letters representing the sounds are in this order.
What is alphabetical?
In simple tonal music this is the tone that receives the greatest stress through iteration.
What is the keynote?
Triads that utilize only the notes of the scale are called this type of triad.
What is diatonic?
The triad whose root is a perfect fifth above the keynote has this proper name.
What is the dominant?
The flats always appear in this order
What is BEADGCF?
This is the number of notes needed to form a diatonic scale
What is eight?
What is tonality?
This is the number of diatonic triads contained in a major key.
What is seven?
The tonic, dominant and subdominant triads are this type of triad group.
What are primary triads?
The sharps always appear in this order
What is FCGDAEB?
In all basic scales, this interval occurs between E & F and B & C.
What is a half step?
The keynote is this note of the scale
What is the first note of a scale?
This type of triad is indicated by upper case Roman numerals.
What is major?
This triad has the the least harmonic activity.
The major scale also has this mode name
What is Ionian?