Vocabulary
A space that separates music on a staff using double bar lines.
What is a measure?
The decreased quality of an interval by a half step.
What is a diminished quality?
The major key containing 3 sharps.
What is A major?
The submediant of the D minor scale.
What is Ab?
The notes in a C major triad.
What are notes C, E, and G?
The interval distance between two adjacent keys on a keyboard.
What is a half step?
The quality of an interval with zero half steps.
What is a Perfect Unison?
The enharmonic equivalent key signature of B major.
What is Cb major?
The minor scale that raises the 7th note of the natural minor scale by a half step.
What is the Harmonic Minor Scale?
The triad consisting of two major thirds.
What is an augmented triad?
The formal name of the 4th degree of a scale.
What is the Subdominant of a scale?
The augmented interval with 6 half steps.
What is an augmented 4th?
The relative minor key of C# major.
What is A# minor?
The minor scale that removes the 4th and 7th notes from the natural minor scale.
What is the Minor Pentatonic Scale?
The root of the dominant seventh chord in A major.
What is E?
A scale consisting of 6 pitches and only whole steps.
What is the Whole Tone Scale?
The top note of a minor 6th with the lower note A.
What is F?
The minor key containing 2 flats.
What is G minor?
The minor scale that raises the 6th and 7th notes of the natural minor scale by a half step when it ascends.
What is the Melodic Minor Scale?
The inversion that moves the root up an octave.
What is a First Inversion?
A chord that contains a major triad and a minor 3rd on top.
What is a dominant seventh chord?
The interval distance of F2 to A3.
What is a compound major 3rd?
The scale degree of a major scale indicating its relative minor key.
What is the 6th degree of major scale?
The leading tone of the D# harmonic minor scale.
What is CX?
The scale degree triad with a diminished quality in major scales.
What is the triad built on the 7th degree?