Vocabulary
Five lines, and four spaces used to define a specific set of pitches when used with a clef.
What is a musical defined as Staff?
Eighth note has one stem.
What is the note with one flag on the stem called?
Tonic is F
What is the Tonic of F major scale?
C# is a Major 3rd above A
A Major 3rd above A is what note?
A chord is any set of three or more notes played at the same time; a triad is a three-note chord.
What is a chord and then what is a triad?
Two numbers in a fraction like appearance. The bottom number represents what note equals one beat. The top number represents how many of the bottom number there are in a measure or how many beats per measure.
What is a Time Signature defined as?
Very slow and broad
what type of tempo represents Largo mean?
Sharp - F-C-G-D-A-E-B, Flat - B-E-A-D-G-C-F.
What is the order of Sharp keys and Flat Keys?
Perfect interval are only Unisons, 4th, 5ths, Octaves, Augmented interval are any interval with the upper note raised by a half-step, Diminished intervals are any interval with the upper note lowed by a half-step.
What interval can be Perfect, what can be Augmented, What can be Diminished?
G-B-D Major, D-F#-A Major, E-G-B minor, D-F-A minor.
Name the following triads as Major or minor. G-B-D, D-F#-A, E-G-B, D-F-A.
Enharmonic pitches and D# is equal to Eb they are enharmonic pitches.
Pitches that have two different names while having the same sound are called what and what is the pitch with the same sound as D#?
(rit) is to gradually get slower, (accel) is to gradually get faster.
What does (rit) and (accel) do to tempo?
Major Eb W-W-H-W-W-W-H, minor C W-H-W-W-H-W-W.
What Major scale and its relative minor have three flats? What is the interval pattern for these scales? (Assume the minor is Natural).
A-B# augmented 2nd, D-Gb diminished 4th, C-G perfect 5th, D-A Major 5th or prefect 5th, D-Bb minor 6th.
Identify the following types of intervals. A-B#, D-Gb, C-G, D-A, D-Bb.
I, ii, III, iv, V, VI, vii. III is C-E-G#.
What is a triad built on each degree of A minor scale? (use roman numeral to show). What are the notes in the third triad of the scale?
Arithmetic distance of an interval.
The number of pitches inclusive of the named pitches is what?
dotted 8th 1 e &, 16th a, dotted 16th 2 e &,
How would you count a dotted 8th note tied with one 16th note and a dotted 16th note?
Natural minor follows key signature, Harmonic minor raises the 7th note of scale, Melodic minor raises the 6th and 7th note of the scale while ascending then descending it lowers the 6th and 7th notes to the original placement.
Name the three types of minor scales and state what each one means?
Diminished 5th B-F, Perfect 4th D-G, Major 7th C-B, minor 6th E-C.
Invert the following intervals. Augmented 4th F-B, Perfect 5th G-D, minor 2nd B-C, Major 3rd C-E.
V7 F major C-E-G-Bb, V7 D major A-C#-E-G, V7 A major E-G#-B-D.
What are the notes in a V7 in F major, V7 in D major, and V7 in A major?
1st inversion the third of the chord is the bottom note and the root is the top note, C-E-G to E-G-C. 2nd inversion the fifth of the chord is the bottom note and the root of the chords is the middle note C-E-G to G-C-E.
Describe what a first inversion is and then a second inversion is, then give an example of both.
Quarter, 8th, 8th 8th 8th all beamed, 8th 16th 16th 16th 16th all beamed.
How do you correctly beam one quarter note five 8th notes and four 16th notes in the compound time of 9/8?
Pentatonic scale has 5 notes per scale used for lots of folk songs major and minor. Blues scale is between pentatonic and major-minor tonalities also has a blues note and is used in pop and Jazz. Whole tone scale has 6 pitches each by a whole step and there is no musical center of gravity.
There are three special types of scales what are the names and why are they different?
Bottom note is Cb, diminished 3rd, Major 6th Cb-Ab and minor 6th Cb-Ab, compounded augmented 13th.
If A is the top note of an augmented 6th, then what is the bottom note? What if it is inverted? What if it is a major or minor instead how would the notes change? If it is a compound interval?
IV Eb-G-Bb, vi G-Bb-D, III D-F-A, V7 F-A-C-Eb, lowed 2nd note of V7 is F minor 7 notes F-Ab-C-Eb, raised 3rd note of V7 is F augmented 7 notes F-A-C#-Eb.
In Bb Major what are the following notes of these chords. IV, vi, III, V7. If the 2nd note of the V7 was lowed one half-step what would that change it to? What if the third note was raised?