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Scales
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Vocabulary
100
The major scale that contains no accidentals.
What is C major?
100
The interval of the two outside pitches of a triad in root position.
What is a perfect fifth?
100
This increases the duration of a note by one half.
What is a dot?
100
The simplest chord progression consists of only two of these.
What is chord?
100
The sequential unfolding of pitch over time.
What is melody?
200
The major scale that contains 7 sharps.
What is C# major?
200
The number of positions a triad can appear in other than the root position.
What is two?
200
This is the number of beats per measure in 3/4 time.
What is three?
200
This is a musical stopping point at the end of a phrase.
What is a cadence?
200
These are like sentences that make up a paragraph.
What is phrases?
300
The minor scale that contains no accidentals.
What is A minor.
300
A triad has the fifth of the root position triad as the lowest sounding pitch in this inversion.
What is second?
300
A curved line which prolongs a note into the next measure.
What is a tie?
300
This is the most frequently used progression in tonal harmony.
What is the dominant to tonic relationship?
300
An interval that is larger than an octave.
What is a compound interval?
400
The type of scale that contains no half steps and also contains two intervals greater than a whole step.
What is the pentatonic scale?
400
This consists of two superimposed minor thirds.
What is a diminished triad?
400
The type of meter in which the basic beat is divided into 3 pulses.
What is compound meter?
400
This cadence conveys a feeling of stopping that is only temporary.
What is a half cadence? (or semi-cadence)
400
Word meaning gradually becoming slower.
What is ritardando?
500
This is the result of merging pentatonic African scales with European major and minor scales.
What is blues scales?
500
A major triad with an added minor seventh above the root.
What is a dominant seventh chord?
500
This is the correct term for this meter.
What is compound duple?
500
This chord progression uses only the I, IV and V chords.
What is the 12-bar blues progression?
500
A three note chord that is built of two superimposed thirds.
What is a triad?