Scales
This major scale has 3 flats
What is Eb major?
Spell the IV in Ab
Db F Ab
In 4/4 time, this note is given 3 and a half beats
What is a double dotted half note?
Resolving the IV chord to the I chord
What is a plagal cadence?
Mr. V's favorite color
Purple
Another name for the major scale
What it the Ionian scale?
Spell the ii in A Major
B d F#
Used to notate straight eight notes in music that is swung
What is a duplet?
Soprano ti-do. Bass - Sol-Do
Perfect Authentic Cadence
Mode starting on mi
Phrygian
Spell the Bb Harmonic Minor Scale
Bb C Db Eb F Gb Anat Bb
VII in c minor
Bb D F
Two or more rhythms played on top of each other that do not line up in a clean way (ex. eighth note triplets over sixteenth notes)
What is a polyrhythm?
A technique where you keep the same note (specifically the root of the scale) in the base, even as the chords change
Pedal Tone
A hexatonic scale with 3 tritones
What is the whole tone scale?
Why is the melodic minor scale called the melodic minor.
Because it alters the melody to avoid the A2 interval
A chord with the notes Bb, D, F, and Ab
What is a Bb Dominant 7th
In music with especially complex time signatures, this type of barline is sometimes used in the middle of a measure to make the music easier to read
What is a dotted barline?
A non-chord tone approached by leap in the melody, typically accented, that is resolved by step in the opposite direction to a chord tone
What is an appoggiatura?
Mode starting on Sol
Mixolydian
Why is the harmonic minor scale called that?
Because it raises the leading tone to create a major V chord. It affects harmony.
The subdominant chord in F
The feeling of 2 in triple meter
What is a hemiola?
Di
Raised Do
When all half-steps are tuned exactly the same
Equal temperament