Key signatures
This key has one sharp.
What is G major (or E minor)?
A major scale has this pattern of whole and half steps.
What is W-W-H-W-W-W-H?
The interval between C and G.
What is a perfect fifth?
The three notes in a triad.
What are root, third, and fifth?
The top number in a time signature represents this.
What is the number of beats per measure?
This key has three flats.
What is E♭ major (or C minor)?
The 6th mode of the major scale.
What is Aeolian?
The interval between F and A.
What is a major third?
The I chord in C major.
What is C–E–G (C major)?
The bottom number in 6/8 indicates this note gets the beat.
What is the eighth note?
The relative minor of A major.
What is F# minor?
This mode sounds like a major scale with a lowered 7th degree.
What is Mixolydian?
The inversion of a major third.
What is a minor sixth?
The ii chord in G major.
What is A–C–E (A minor)?
Define compound meter.
Each beat divides into three equal parts.
The key signature with six sharps.
What is F# major (or D# minor)?
The difference between harmonic and melodic minor.
melodic minor.Harmonic has raised 7th; melodic raises 6th & 7th ascending, natural minor descending.
C to B♭ is this interval.
What is a minor seventh?
The vii° chord in F major.
What is E–G–B♭ (E diminished)?
A measure with one strong beat and one weak beat is in this meter type.
What is duple meter?
Explain the difference between relative and parallel keys.
Relative share the same key signature; parallel share the same tonic but different signatures.
Identify the D Dorian scale.
D–E–F–G–A–B–C–D
Define an augmented interval.
One half-step larger than perfect or major.
The V chord in D major.
What is A-C#-E (A major)?
9/8 time has this many beats per measure and this beat unit.
What is three beats per measure, dotted quarter gets the beat?