Keys and Scales
Please identify if this is a major or minor scale
What is a Major Scale
Please Identify the interval given (on board)
Notes and Sound Given (reference piano chart)
What is a minor second
Define Melodic Contour.
What is the "Shape" or "Direction" of the melody, either up or down by intervals or steps
What song from our first week of listenings by Claude Debussy famously represents The Sea?
What is La Mer
Based on the scale, what Minor Mode are we in?
Harmonic Minor
Please Identify the interval given (on board)
Notes and Sound Given (reference piano chart)
What is a Major 6?
What famous melody is just arpeggiated chords throughout its introduction?
What is Bach Prelude in G from Suite No 1
What famous Group from the late 1950s recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios?
Who are The Beatles
Please identify if we are in major or minor based on the Scale on the Board
What is a Minor Scale
Please Identify the interval given (on board)
Sound Given (reference piano chart)
What is a Tritone (or A4/D5)
Define the term "Musical Hook"
What occurs at the start of a song or piece of music to grab the listeners attention.
What famous composer used the same 8 chords over 30+ variations within the last movement of their 4th symphony?
Who is Brahms
Please Identify the key and what Minor Mode we are in Based on the Scale on the Board
What is Natural Minor
Please Identify the interval given (on board)
Notes (reference piano chart)
What is a Minor 3th
Please name the three "Unstable" Scale Degrees, excluding Scale ^ 5
What are 2, 4, 7
What Indonesian ensemble has a unique tuning system from our western, 12 ET?
What is Gamelan
This question is in two parts, each worth 250. Please identify the Key and Type of Scale given on the board. Afterwards, I will play the scale for you and you will be asked to sing as a group. I will play once, you will have 15 seconds to practice
What is G# Melodic Minor
What interval is this? (hint: It may not be Minor, Major, or Perfect?)
What is a Diminished 7
When writing phrases, what are common numbers of measures to write phrases for? In other words, how many measures commonly go into phrases. Give me at least three numbers.
Answers I am looking for:
4 Bar Phrasing
8 Bar Phrasing
12 Bar Blues
16 Bar long phrasing
What altered scale or "Mode" is used in Sally's Song and Jacks Lament from the Nightmare Before Christmas?
What is the Phrygian or Minor b2 scale?