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Rhythm
Pitch
Terms and Symbols
Odds and Ends
Sight Singing
100
The steady pulse of all music.
What is a beat?
100
A series of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which notes are written.
What is a staff?
100
A vertical line that groups notes and rests together.
What is a barline?
100
A symbol that lowers the pitch of a given note one half step.
What is a flat?
100
A rhythm in which the second eighth note of each beat is played or swung like the last third or a triplet.
What is a swing rhythm?
200
The combination of long and short notes and rests.
What is rhythm?
200
A staff that is created when two staves are joined together.
What is a grand staff?
200
The space between two barlines.
What is a measure?
200
Any sharp, flat, or natural that is not included in the key signature of a piece of music.
What is an accidental?
200
An altered major scale that uses lowered third, fifth, and seventh notes: ma, se, and te.
What is a blues scale?
300
A note that represents half a beat of sound when the quater note recieves the beat.
What is an eighth note?
300
It is determined by its home tone.
What is key?
300
It accures when the accent is placed on the notes that normally do not recieve extra emphasis.
What is a syncopation?
300
A symbol that raises the pitch of a given note one half step.
What is a sharp?
300
A group of three even notes that equal one beat when the quater note receives the beat.
What is a triplet?
400
A symbol that increases the lengh of a given note by its value.
What is a dot?
400
The smallest distance between two notes.
What is a half step?
400
It is a way of organizing rhythm.
What is a meter?
400
A symbol that cancels a previous sharp or flat, or a sharp or flat in a key signature.
What is a natural?
400
A chord built on the fourth note of a scale.
What is a subdominant chord?
500
Any meter in which the quater note recieves the beat, and the division of the beat is based on two eighth notes.
What is a simple meter?
500
A chord built on the home tone of a scale.
What is a tonic chord?
500
It is a set of numbers at the beginning of a piece of music.
What is a time signature?
500
A note that represents one quater beat of sound when the quater note receives the beat.
What is a sixteenth note?
500
A chord built on the fifth note of a scale.
What is a dominant chord?