Scales
What is Alla Breve?
This symbol negates a sharp or flat and returns a note to it's original pitch.
What is a Natural Sign?
This has onne or more beats in a partial measure, before the first measure in Music, also known as the Upbeat.
What is an Anacrusis?
This Major Key Signature has 5 sharps.
What is B Major?
Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Sub-dominant, Dominant, Sub-mediant, Leading tone, all refer to this....
what are Major scale degree names?
Also known as "Cut Time", this symbol has a C with a vertical line drawn through it, and represents a 2/2 time signature.
What is Alle Breve?
known by it's one strong and two weak pulses, it varies from 3/8, 3/4 to 3/2 time.
What is triple Meter?
This minor key (represented by 4 flats) is the relative minor key to Ab Major.
What is F minor?
A curved symbol with a dot that indicates a note or rest should be held longer than its written value.
What is a Fermata?
Pitches can always have at least two different names, many even three different names, even white keys on the piano. For example: C♭=B, G=Fx, D♯=E♭, etc.
What are Enharmonic pitches?
This fraction is used to indicate the second inversion of a Dominant 7th chord.
what is 4/3 or V 4/3?
B (5 sharps) sounds the same as C♭ (7 flats), F♯ (6 sharps) sounds like G♭ (6 flats), C♯ (7 sharps) sounds like D♭ (5 flats).
What are Enharmonic Keys?
This 5 note scale uses the pitch between the 4th and 5th degree and was devied from African and American folk music.
What is a Blues Scale?
This symbol 8vb---- with an upturned bracket, [derived from Latin meaning "eighth"] is used to indicate that bass notes should be played one octave below or lower than written.
What is Ottava Bassa?
The related or alternative, flat minor Key to A sharp minor.
What is Bb minor?
This unique scale sharpens the 6th & 7th degree, but only in the ascending form. These pitches return to their natural pitch on the way down.
What is a Melodic minor Scale.
Common time signatures that feature the dotted quarter note as the beat. Eighth notes would be beamed in multiples of three in 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 time.
What is Compound Meter?