When you raise the 6th & 7th degrees of the scale one half-step when ascending, and lower them to the natural form when descending.
What is a melodic minor scale?
100
When two pitches are sounded simultaneously.
What is a harmonic interval?
200
Signs used to alter the pitch of a note chramtically
What is an accidental?
200
This major key signature has seven flats.
What is Cb (C-Flat) Major?
200
This minor key signature has two flats.
What is G Minor?
200
The 7th degree position that is one whole step away from the tonic in the natural minor.
What is the subtonic?
200
Reversing pitches from top to bottom so that the higher pitch is moved one octave lower so that it is below the other pitch.
What is an inversion of an interval?
300
The musical distances between two pitches, whether written on the staff our sounded.
What is an interval?
300
This key signature that consists ONLY the following notes: F#, C#, G#, D#, A# & E#.
What is C# (C-sharp) Major?
300
This minor key signature consists of only the following notes: F#, C#, G#, D# & A#.
What is G# Minor?
300
This scale has 5 notes per octave, and was assumed to be one of the first scales ever used -- which would explain why most folk music uses this scale.
What is a pentatonic scale?
300
Intervals that are larger than one octave.
What is a compound interval?
400
Any triad spaced further apart or in another order of notes other than root position.
What is open position?
400
This key signature consists of only the following notes: Bb, Eb, Ab, Db & Gb.
What is Db (D-flat) Major?
400
This minor key signature consists of only the following notes: Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb & Fb.
What is Ab Minor?
400
The sequence for this type of common pentatonic scale is as follows: Whole-Step, Half-Step, Whole & Whole-Step, Half Step, Whole & Whole Step. (W-H-W&W-H-W&W)
What is a minor pentatonic scale?
500
The cadence in a major key with a chord pattern of V-I, and also in a minor key with a cord pattern of V-i.
What is an authentic cadence?
500
The leading tone of C-Major Scale.
What is B?
500
The subtonic of the Bb minor scale.
What is Ab?
500
The flattened fifth, and lowered third and seventh scale degrees.
What are blues notes?
500
The number of half-steps contained between two pitches.