The distance from any key to the very next key above or below it.
What is a half step?
The note from which a triad gets its name.
What is the root?
The name of this minor triad.
What is C minor?
A broken chord, played successively rather than simultaneously.
It is always this holiday in piano class.
What is Christmas?
The tempo mark that means "moderately."
What is moderato?
To play a piece at a pitch different from the original.
What is to transpose?
This sign shows when the _______ ______ is to be used.
What is the damper pedal?
A chord where all notes are together.
What is a block chord?
The quality of this chord.
Distances between tones.
What are intervals?
The name of this piece we learned in Unit 4.
Handing it over to our piano teacher, Professor Cynthia Ramsdell of Heidelberg University.
What is "Little Scherzo"?
The numbered name of this kind of interval.
Dominant always precedes _____ at the end of a piece.
What is tonic?
The name of this type of interval.
What is an 8th or octave?
The name for this key signature.
What is F# major?
A phrase that describes sharing the same key signature, something that every major key has.
What is a relative minor key?
The sequence of whole and half steps that make up any major scale.
What is W W H W W W H?
The first inversion of the root C E G.
What is E G C?
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Means "in singing style."
What is cantabile?
The major five finger pattern that has this specific key sequence: B W W B B.
What is Eā major?
A major chord that's fifth is raised a half step.
What is an augmented chord?
When a note an interval of a 7th above the root is added to the V triad.
What is a V7 chord?
Used when most of the melody notes are scale tones 1, 4, and 6.
What is subdominant?