I Saw the Sign
A symbol used to notate pitches that are to be played with the right hand or a higher pitched instrument.
What is the treble clef?
What is pitch and rhythm?
A series of musical notes organized by ascending or descending pitches.
What is a scale?
The process of rewriting notes at a higher or lower pitch level.
What is transposition?
The distance between two notes or pitches.
What is an interval?
A symbol used to notate pitches that are to be played with the left hand or a lower pitched instrument.
What is the bass clef?
The fixed, rhythmic pulse of the piece of music.
What is the beat?
These scales are built upon the pattern of:
W-W-H-W-W-W-H
What are the major scales?
The process of transposition includes a change in key signature and pitch, but not these two elements.
What are time signature and rhythm?
The two parts of an interval.
What are size and quality?
A vertical stack of numbers placed at the beginning of the staff immediately following the clef to indicate meter.
What is the time signature?
The seven letter names used to represent different pitches.
What is A, B, C, D, E, F, and G?
In a key signature with sharps, the major key is a half step up from this.
What is the last sharp?
Each note in a scale has these two signifiers.
What are Scale Degree Number and Scale Degree Name?
The simplest chord, formed with three notes.
What is a triad?
A symbol used to show the note should be held longer than the normal note value.
What is fermata?
These are used to express the passage of pitch through time.
What is a note?
In key signatures with flats, this is always the name of the major key.
What is the second to last flat?
In a natural minor scale the scale degree ^7 changes from leading tone to this.
What is the subtonic?
The four types of triads.
What are major, minor, diminished, and augmented?
This shows that the piece is over or that there is a major shift in the overall idea of the piece, such as a key or time signature change.
What is a double bar?
We cam assess the type of meter being expressed through a given time signature by looking at this.
What is the top number of the time signature?
Starting on the sixth note of a major scale and building up, using the same sharps and flats the major scale used.
What is finding a relative minor scale?
When transposing music, there are this many basic steps.
What is 5?
These occur when the notes are rearranged so that the root is no longer the lowest sounding pitch.
What is an inverted triad?