Musical Symbols
What is a Bass Clef ?
The Distance between two notes or pitches
What is an Interval ?
A Diminished 5th has this number of Semitones.
What is 6 ?
This non chord tone is approached by step, and resolved by step in the same direction.
What is a Passing Tone ?
a clef placing G above middle C on the second-lowest line of the staff, instruments such as clarinet and flute follow this.
What is a Treble Clef ?
When two notes are being played simultaneously , it is called this.
What is Unison ?
A Perfect 8th has this number of Semitones.
What is 12 ?
This is approached by sustaining a note from the previous chord, then resolved down by step.
What is Suspension ?
This symbol takes a note and raises it one half-step (semitone) higher than its natural pitch
What is a Sharp ?
Number of steps the interval contains on the staff represented on the staff.
What is Interval Size ?
A Perfect 4th has this many whole tones
what is 2 1/2 ?
Also called a neighboring group or a cambiata, this is a pair of notes: one upper neighboring tone and one lower neighboring tone.
What is a Changing tone ?
A rhythmic notation that changes the rhythmic value of a note. For example a _______ half note will be three beats long instead of 2 beats long like the standard half note .
What is the rhythm dot or Dotted ?
Number of Semitones between two notes
What is Interval Quality
A Minor 2nd has this number of whole tones.
What is 1/2 ?
the temporal opposite of a suspension. In an ANT, one voice resolves early to the note it has in the next chord. This often happens at the final cadence of a chorale, in an inner voice.
What is the Anticipation Tone ?
What is a Fermata ?
how many semitones are in a augmented 5th
What is 8 ?
approached by leap, resolved by step (usually in the opposite direction). The____ is usually accented (occurs on the beat).
What is an Appoggiatura ?