Intervals
What is the interval between B and F?
Diminished fifth
What is the name for a note that is held through changing harmonies?
A pedal tone
What compound meter are waltzes written in?
6/8
What two kinds of parallels are NOT consistent with the common practice period?
Parallel fifths and parallel octaves
What major key has one flat in its key signature?
F major
What interval was historically associated with the devil?
Tritone
What cadence ends in a V-I chord progression where the soprano falls on "do"?
Perfect Authentic Cadence
What is it called when a group of beats is changed in order to make a piece sound like it is in a different time signature? (grammar, help)
Hemiola
What is the subdominant chord in D Major? (letter names with any applicable accidentals)
G-B-D
What major key has six flats in its key signature?
G flat major
What is the opening interval of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"?
An octave (P8)
Name the technique in which a piece is minor but resolves to a Major key at the end.
Picardy third
A dotted half rest is worth how many beats?
3
What is the term for an ornamental note that is approached by a leap but resolved with a step?
An appoggiatura
What mode shares the same pitches as natural minor?
Aeolian
What interval is B sharp to C double sharp?
A Major second
What kind of cadence is commonly associated with hymnals?
Plagal (on a bagel)
120 beats per minute is considered...
Allegro
What Arabic numerals represent a seventh chord in second inversion?
4/3
What mode flattens the second of a minor scale?
Phrygian (for you, Anthony)
What is the transposing interval for an Alto saxophone?
What is the melodic texture in which every part has an independent melody?
Polyphonic texture
7/8 and 5/8 are examples of what type of meter?
Asymmetrical meter
Is the chorus of "Never Gonna Give You Up" mostly monosyllabic or melismatic?
Monosyllabic
What minor key has seven sharps?
d sharp minor