Music Theoreopardy 1900-1945

Pitch Content

100

A scale of all M2nds

Whole Tone

200

A scale consisting of scale degrees 1 3 4 5 7 from minor

Minor Pentatonic

300

Scale alternating whole and half steps

Octatonic

400

A piece containing the full chromatic collection (all 12 pitches)

Aggregate

500

A mode consisting of #4 and b7

Lydian-Mixolydian

Tonality Types

100

Chromatic music with no tonal center

Atonal

200

Music from 1600-1900 with a pitch center and raised Leading Tone; opposite of Atonal

Tonal / tonality

300

Having multiple tonal centers at once

Polytonal

400

Music using the Dorian, Mixolydian, Lydian, Aeolian, Phrygian, and Locrian scales

Modal

500

Diatonic music with no clear tonal center

Pandiatonic

Rhythm & Meter

100

Having no perceived meter

Ametric

200

Having two meters or metric feels at once

Polymeter

300

Meters with different beat lengths throughout the measure

Asymmetrical meter (or its many synonyms)

400

Rhythms that are the same backwards as forwards

Rhythmic palindrome

500

Rhythms that expand or contract by a consistent rhythmic value

Additive/subtractive rhythms

Form

100

Repeated melody with variations

Passacaglia

200

Repeated set of Chords with variations

Chaconne

300

61.8% ratio that occurs often in nature and art

The Golden Ratio

400

A B C B A

Arch form

500

A form that is composed of many small tiles;
A B C D E B C F D A

Mosaic form

Harmony

100

Chords built mostly of seconds

Secundal

200

Chords built of 4ths and 5ths

Quartal-Quintal

300

Taking a single chord structure and moving it around by parallel motion

Planing

400

Stravinsky Chord that is two triads a tritone apart

Petroushka Chord

500

Scriabin chord that is quartal-quintal and a subset of the Lydian-Mixolydian scale

Mystic Chord