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This short scale includes a tritone interval and is commonly used in jazz music.
What is a blues scale?
100
In a 4/4 time signature, this note value will get one beat.
What is a quarter note?
100
If you add this to a note, it adds on half of the note's value.
What is a dot?
100
This 20th century piece by Stravinsky is often known for its rather tumultuous premiere.
What is the Rite of Spring?
100
It takes this many seconds for a silence to become awkward.
What is the number four?
200
This scale is similar to the natural minor scale with one changed note value.
What is a harmonic minor scale?
200
The beat of a compound time signature must always go to this type of note.
What is a dotted note?
200
The length that a musical note is held is usually referred to as this.
What is duration?
200
Sometimes known as the "Ode to Joy" Symphony, this symphony was the first to include voices.
What is Beethoven's 9th Symphony?
200
Sea otters do this while sleeping so they don't drift away from each other.
What is holding hands?
300
This is a scale commonly used in Eastern music.
What is a pentatonic scale?
300
In a 2/2 time signature, you would need 16 of these notes to fill one measure.
What is a 32nd note?
300
Trying to fit 3 notes into 2 beats? Trying using this musical rhythmic device.
What is a triplet?
300
This piece by Debussy is often known for its lilting flute solo at the opening.
What is Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?
300
People who have this fear probably shouldn't be living near any ponds, lakes or other places ducks live.
What is anatidaephobia?
400
Often considered to have a 'mystical' quality, this scale only progresses using one type of jump.
What is a whole tone scale?
400
In 4/2 time signature, this note value will be played for an entire measure.
What is a double whole note?
400
A rhythm that consists of a dotted note and a neighboring note worth one third of the value of the dotted note is also known as this.
What is a dotted rhythm?
400
This minimalist piece created by Steve Reich in the 1960s tends to get a bit repetitive.
What is It's Gonna Rain?
400
The milk produced by hippopotamuses, unlike that of many other mammals, is not white, but this lovely color.
What is the color pink?
500
Moving in alternate intervals, this scale often goes by two different names (name both).
What are an octatonic scale and a diminished scale?
500
A tied note would be held for 7/8 of a beat in 2/2 if a dotted quarter note was tied to this other note.
What is a sixteenth note?
500
This part of this music is often signalled by the downward movement of a conductor's hand.
What is the downbeat?
500
This scary piece by Schubert uses different voices and rhythms to tell the story of the death of a child.
What is Erlkonig (The Erlking)?
500
Although the taglina was "Gotta catch 'em all," Ash Ketchum only caught this many of 649 Pokemon.
What is the number 43?