Circle of Fifths (Major)
The key with no sharps or flats.
What is C major?
A unit of duration signified by an oval.
What is a whole note?
This basic major triad consists of a root note, a major third, and a perfect fifth.
What is a major triad?
This time signature, also known as common time, indicates four quarter-note beats per measure.
The key with 1 flat.
What is F major?
Italian term meaning “slowly” or “at ease.” It’s used in music to indicate a tempo that is leisurely and graceful.
What is adagio?
This type of triad includes a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth.
What is a minor triad?
A ________ scale refers to the same selection of notes as the natural minor, but with a raised (that’s another way of saying ‘sharpened’) 7.
What is a harmonic scale?
In musical notation, this symbol placed before a note increases its duration by half its original value.
What is a dot?
The key with 4 flats.
What is Ab major?
Interval type that can only be unisons, 4ths, 5ths, or octaves.
What are perfect intervals?
This triad, built on the fifth degree of a major scale, is typically major in a major key but minor in a minor key.
What is a dominant triad?
The ascending form of the ______ is based on the natural minor, but with both the 6 and 7 scale degrees raised up by a semitone. Then, in the descending form, these notes are lowered again back to the notes of the natural minor.
What is a melodic minor scale?
This time signature indicates two beats per measure with a quarter note receiving one beat.
What is 2/4 time?
The key with 5 sharps.
What is B major?
Interval type that are only 2nds, 3rds, 6ths, 7ths.
What are major or minor intervals?
A triad built with the notes G, B, and D# is classified as this type of chord.
What is an augmented triad?
The scale type that is often formed by the addition of an out-of-key note to an existing scale.
What is the blues scale?
This notation symbol placed before a C# note lowers it to C natural for the duration of the measure.
What is a flat?
The key with 7 sharps.
What is C sharp major?
The inversion type where the "third" of the chord is the bottom note (originally the middle note) and the root or name of the chord is the top note. Example: E-G-C.
What is first inversion?
A triad formed by the notes F, Ab, and Cb in a Db major scale context is this type of chord, often found on the second degree of a minor scale.
What is a Diminished triad?
This scale, built on the sixth degree of a C major scale, consists of the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and is commonly used in minor key compositions.
What is the Aeolian scale (or natural minor scale)?
This symbol ">" above a note, indicates that the note should be played with a strong emphasis.
What is an accent?