scales
The number of sharps in a C# major scale
What are seven sharps in?
The distance between the root to the fifth in a diminished triad
What is a diminished fifth?
The type of meter of 6/4, 6/8, and 6/16
What is a compound duple?
These are the four texture types
What are monophony, polyphony, homophony, and heterophony?
These are the four instruments included in a string orchestra
What are violins, violas, cellos, and basses in?
The solfege syllable that represents the mediant of a minor scale
What is "me"
Triads stacked from 5th -> root -> 3rd
What are second inversion triads?
The beat unit in 6/16
What is a dotted eighth note?
The type of texture that involves two or more melodies at the same time
What is polyphony?
The other name for a pick-up note
What is an anacrusis?
The order of flats for a key signature
What is B E A D G F C ?
The order of the triad qualities in a major scale (major or minor triads)
What are M-m-m-M-M-m-d triads?
When added onto a note, it extends the note's value by one-half more of its original length
What is a dot?
The texture type that singing "Happy Birthday" usually results in
What is heterophony?
The articulation mark that means to shorten the note it is over
What is staccato?
The pattern of whole and half steps that make a major scale
What is W W H W W W H ?
The quality of a supertonic triad in a minor scale
What is a diminished triad?
A temporary musical pattern where a duple rhythmic grouping is played over the original triple meter.
What is a hemiola?
What are thin, thick, open/wide, and closed/tight textures?
The amount of different whole-tone scales
What are there only two scales for?
The relative minor of an F# major scale
What is D# minor?
The triad quality that re-fa-sol pitches in a D major scale form
What is a minor triad?
5/4, 7/8, and 11/8 are example of this different type of meter due to their unequal beat lengths
What are asymmetrical meters?
The texture type of a small jazz combo when a trombone is soloing and the rest of the band is in the background.
What is an example of homophony?
The order of ascending solfege syllables in a chromatic scale
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