Italian Salad
This Italian term refers to the speeding up of a piece.
What is accelerando?
While every interval can be augmented or diminished, these three intervals cannot be called major or minor.
What is unison, fourth, and fifth?
This is what you call the lines that connect eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and 32nd notes.
This simple tool is used by musicians all over to identify scales and key signatures, and was invented in the late 1670's by Mykola Dylets'kiy.
What is the circle of fifths?
Complete this musical pattern.
F# C# G# D# A# E# B# __
What is F double-sharp?
This Italian term means, "little by little".
This interval is most commonly found in scores for action films and not many other places.
What is a tritone? (alternatively, minor sixth)
4/4 time refers to common time. Cut time refers to this time signature.
What is 2/2 time?
The conversion from a natural minor scale to a major scale is simple. You just change these things.
What is the third, sixth, and seventh? (All sharped)
Complete this musical pattern.
I ii __ IV V vi viio
What is iii? (Lowercase only!)
This Italian term refers to plucking the strings of a stringed instrument instead of using the bow.
What is Pizzicato? (alternatively, pizz.)
A perfect 4th is a half step more than a Major 3rd. A perfect 8ve is a half step more than a Major 7th. A Perfect 5th is a half step more than this.
What is a tritone?
The ____ chord of a harmonic minor scale is major. (use words such as "tonic")
What is the Dominant chord, Mediant Chord, and Submediant Chord?
The Aeolian scale is nearly the same as the Dorian scale, with this key difference.
What is a raised sixth?
Complete this musical pattern.
Do Se Fa Ti Te Mi Me __
What is La?
This Italian term refers to the correct way to play the piano when you are emulating a harpsichord.
What is partamento?
When you have a major triad in root position, it is made up of a major third and a minor third. When you invert it twice, it becomes made up of these two intervals.
What is a major sixth and a perfect fourth?
When one hand plays the melody while another plays the melody slightly behind it, it is called this. (Not a round, the official name)
What is a canon?
The Locrian Scale has these pitches RAISED with reference to the Ionian scale.
What is no pitches?
Gerald is trying to play a piece without a metronome, but he needs something to give him the tempo. The piece runs at 180 bpm. Gerald picks up this simple household item and plays the song perfectly.
What is a clock (with a second hand)?
This Italian term refers to becoming broader, slowing down (not ritardando, it is more a marking of feeling than one of strick usage).
What is slentando? (Alternatively, slargando)
Middle C is on the third line in the alto clef. If, theoretically, there was a C clef for the next voice lower than baritone, what line would become middle C?
Jack is playing a polonaise. It doesn't matter which one he's playing, he will always play in this time signature.
What is 3/4 time?
Everyone knows that C major uses only white keys. This scale and its enharmonic use only black keys.
What is the F# Pentatonic Scale? (or Gb Pentatonic Scale)
Daily Double! Paginini, Mendelssohn, Dvorak. These three people all have this in common.
Who are people that have written famous concertos?