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What is compound quadruple?
It is any meter with 4 beats in a measure with each beat divided into 3.
What is compound meter signature?
This meter signature divides beats into threes.
What is a chromatic scale?
This scale is entirety mode up of consecutive half steps.
What is 9/8 meter signature?
This meter signature has 3 beats per measure, its beat unit is a dotted quarter note, and the meter type is compound triple.
What is compound triple?
This is the meter type for 9/16
What is a quadruplet?
In compound time, it is a subdivision group borrowed from simple time.
What is beaming?
This allows you to group eighth and sixteenth notes to reflect a single beat unit.
What is a pentatonic scale?
This collection contains only five of the seven diatonic pitches.
What is the key of C#?
This key signature has 7 sharps.
What are solfege syllables?
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do are all examples of this.
What is anacrusis?
The upbeat, pick-up.
What is a dotted half note?
This is the beat unit for 12/4.
What is the diatonic scale?
A scale that increases o decreases by adjacent letter names.
What is the key of F?
This major scale has 1 flat
What is compound duple?
Any meter with 2 beats in a measure with each beat divided into 3.
What is a duplet?
In compound meters a division of the beat into two, borrowed from simple meters, instead of the expected three parts.
What is subdivision?
This allows an eighth note to be divided into 2 sixteenth notes.
What is a tetrachord.
A scale consisting of 4 notes.
What is a hemiola?
This is a temporary duple rhythmic grouping in the context of an underlying triple meter.
What is the leading tone?
This note is the 7th scale degree.
What is rubato?
Tempo fluctuations that speed up or slow down slightly as the work approaches an important musical goal.
What is the circle of fifths?
Depicts relationship between 12 tones of chromatic key signatures.
What is a triplet?
In simple meters, a division group borrowed from compound meters.
What is a metrical accent?
The pattern of strong and weak beats based on "weight" of the downbeat; the "lift" of the upbeat.
What is supertonic?
This note is the 2nd note in the scale.