Notation
Intervals
Keys and Key Signatures
Scales
Chords
100
These are used to extend the lines of a regular staff and notate pitches that lie above or below it.
What are Ledger lines?
100
The distance in pitch between two sounds, which is measured by size and quality.
What is Interval?
100
This is a grouping of accidentals placed at the beginning of each staff to indicate the number of accidentals found in the scale of a key.
What is "key signature"?
100
This is the first scale degree in any diatonic scale which serves as the focus or center of the scale.
What is the Tonic?
100
This triad chord position is built from 2 superimposed thirds stacked on top of each other to create an interval of a fifth between outer pitches.
What is root position?
200
This note is created by adding a dot after a basic note, which increases the duration of the note by half of its original value.
What is a dotted note?
200
This type of interval is larger than 1 octave in size.
What is Compound Interval?
200
This minor key has no accidentals in the key signature.
What is "a minor"?
200
These are the three forms of the minor scale.
What are natural, harmonic, and melodic?
200
This triad inversion creates an interval of a fourth between the lower two pitches.
What is 2nd inversion?
300
This curved line connects two notes of the same pitch and indicates that the pitch is to be played for twice as long.
What is a Tie?
300
This quality of intervals results when a major interval is decreased by a whole step, or a minor or perfect interval is decreased by a half-step
What is diminished?
300
This diagram represents the musical relationship between pitches, as well as their corresponding keys and signatures.
What is Circle of Fifths?
300
This minor scale is created by borrowing the leading tone from the parallel major scale
What is harmonic minor scale?
300
This chord features a major triad with an added m7 above the root.
What is dominant 7th chord?
400
This Italian musical phrase meaning "to the breve" is denoted by the symbol shown and used to indicate a 2/2 time signature.
What is alla breve?
400
This interval contains 5 half steps.
What is P4?
400
Two keys, 1 Major and 1 minor, that share the same tonic but use different key signatures.
What are Parallel Keys?
400
This scale has 5 notes per octave and typically contains no half-steps.
What is pentatonic scale?
400
The triads built on the I, IV, and V chords of a scale and which contain all the pitches of the scale.
What are primary triads?
500
In modern notation, this form of articulation signifies a note of shortened duration.
What is Staccato?
500
This occurs when the pitches in an interval are reversed from top to bottom.
What is harmonic inversion of intervals?
500
Two keys (1 Major and 1 minor) that share the same key signature and the same set of notes arranged in different orders.
What are "relative keys"?
500
This 6-note scale is an extension of the pentatonic scale with a flattened 3rd, 5th, and/or 7th note added.
What is blues scale?
500
This type of chord occurs when the notes of a chord are all played separately in ascending or descending order.
What is arpeggio?