Keys and Scales
Intervals
Melodic Construction
Trivia and Fun Stuff!
100

Please identify if this is a major or minor scale

What is a Major Scale

100

Please Identify the interval given (on board)

Notes and Sound Given (reference piano chart)

What is a minor second

100

Define Melodic Contour.

What is the "Shape" or "Direction" of the melody, either up or down by intervals or steps

100

What song from our first week of listenings by Claude Debussy famously represents The Sea?

What is La Mer

200

Based on the scale, what Minor Mode are we in?

Harmonic Minor

200

Please Identify the interval given (on board)

Notes and Sound Given (reference piano chart)

What is a Major 6?

200

What famous melody is just arpeggiated chords throughout its introduction?

What is Bach Prelude in G from Suite No 1

200

What famous Group from the late 1950s recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios?

Who are The Beatles

300

Please identify if we are in major or minor based on the Scale on the Board

What is a Minor Scale

300

Please Identify the interval given (on board)

Sound Given (reference piano chart)

What is a Tritone (or A4/D5)

300

Define the term "Musical Hook"

What occurs at the start of a song or piece of music to grab the listeners attention.

300

What famous composer used the same 8 chords over 30+ variations within the last movement of their 4th symphony?

Who is Brahms

400

Please Identify the key and what Minor Mode we are in Based on the Scale on the Board

What is Natural Minor

400

Please Identify the interval given (on board)

Notes (reference piano chart)

What is a Minor 3th

400

Please name the three "Unstable" Scale Degrees, excluding Scale ^ 5

What are 2, 4, 7

400

What Indonesian ensemble has a unique tuning system from our western, 12 ET?

What is Gamelan

500

This question is in two parts, each worth 250. Please identify the Key and Type of Scale given on the board. Afterwards, I will play the scale for you and you will be asked to sing as a group. I will play once, you will have 15 seconds to practice

What is G# Melodic Minor

500

What interval is this? (hint: It may not be Minor, Major, or Perfect?)

What is a Diminished 7

500

When writing phrases, what are common numbers of measures to write phrases for? In other words, how many measures commonly go into phrases. Give me at least three numbers.

Answers I am looking for:

4 Bar Phrasing

8 Bar Phrasing

12 Bar Blues

16 Bar long phrasing

500

What altered scale or "Mode" is used in Sally's Song and Jacks Lament from the Nightmare Before Christmas?

What is the Phrygian or Minor b2 scale?

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