Intermediate Musician Artistreopardy

Major Keys & Scales

100

Key Signature of G Major

F#

200

Note that is scale degree 4 in F major

Bb

300

Key Signature of Eb Major

Bb, Eb, Ab

400

Note that is scale degree 7 in B major

A#

500

Key Signature of Cb Major

Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb, Fb

Minor Keys & Scales

100

Note that is scale degree 7 in A natural minor

G

200

Key Signature of D minor

Bb

300

Note that is scale degree 6 in G harmonic minor

Eb

400

Key Signature of G# minor

F#, C#, G#, D#, A#

500

Note that is scale degree 6 (on the way up) in E melodic minor

C#

Theory Terminology

100

Term for scale degree 1

Tonic

200

Term for scale degree 5

Dominant

300

Term for scale degree 3

Mediant

400

Term for scale degree 7 in natural minor

Subtonic

500

Term for two notes that sound the same but are spelled differently

Enharmonic

Medieval/Renaissance

100

Nun who composed over a drone

Hildegard (von Bingen)

200

Cathedral in France where polyphony was born

Notre Dame

300

Renaissance dates

1400-1600

400

Piece or composer notated years later by ear by Mozart

Allegri Miserere

500

Medieval Bard/singer-songwriter

Troubador or Trouvaritz

Baroque History

100

Instrumental predecessor to the piano

Harpischord (or organ, or clavichord)

200

German composer of fugues and much organ music

Bach (or Buxtehude, or Fischer, or Telemann, etc.)

300

Baroque dates

1600-1750

400

Three composers born in same year

Bach, Handel, & Scarlatti

500

Chromatic British composer of all-girls opera, Dido and Aeneas

Henry Purcell