Vocabulary
This is the distance between two notes, measured by letter names or half steps.
What is an Interval?
The name of the major scale with a Bb accidental
What is the F Major scale?
First Scale degree
What is the Tonic?
Fast, quick, or speedy tempo
What is Allegretto/Allegro/Vivace?
This tempo is best served on mashed potatoes
What is Grave?
A pick-up note
What is an Anacrusis note?
The name of the minor scale with Bb, Eb, and Ab accidental
What is C minor?
In C major, this scale degree is called the dominant, what is the letter name.
What is G?
This tempo means "at a walking pace"
What is Andante?
This is the main reason why most musicians want to burn violas
When the offbeat becomes the strong beat
What is Syncopation?
The relative major of F minor
What is Ab Major?
In G harmonic minor, the 7̂ is raised by a half step compared to natural minor. Name the scale degree.
What is the Leading Tone?
This tempo marking is used to gradually increase the tempo
What is accelerando?
Point to Melodic Lawson whilst simultaneously describing why that is the name of said object.
What is the Ms.Lawson Cutout raising the 6th and 7th of the melodic minor scale?
The number of beats in a measure
What is meter?
The pivot notes for G minor and D major
What is G A D?
In a minor key, the 6̂ is sometimes raised when ascending. Identify the scale degree.
What is the Submediant?
If a piece is marked Allegro, but the composer wants it to feel even more lively, they might add this Italian word meaning "very."
What is Molto?
Describe Rubato
What is Watch the Conductor?
The feel of a shift between meters that is not written
What is a Hemiola?
This minor key is enharmonically equivalent to its parallel major key with six sharps, even though it is usually written with six flats in notation. Name the minor key.
What is Gb minor?
In a melodic minor scale ascending, list all the scale degrees that remain the same as in the natural minor
What are the scale degrees Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant,and Dominant?
In a score marked so that the quarter note is equivalent to 60 bpm, a sudden tempo modulation redefines the new tempo so that the old triplet eighth note equals the new quarter note; the resulting tempo is this many beats per minute.
What is 90 bpm?
This person is a relative of Major
Mrs.Meiners