Triads & Seventh Chords
This triad has two major thirds stacked one on top of the other.
Augmented triad
The melody of “Oh Where Is My Hairbrush” is in this form.
Sentence
This composer tied a string to his finger to improve dexterity.
Robert Schumann
Bach died in this year.
1750
The triad you hear is this quality.
Minor
This seventh chord is known as the “Up” chord.
Major-major seventh chord
This always occurs at the end of a phrase.
A cadence
Henry Purcell was from this country.
England
Bach was born in this year.
1685
The triad you hear is this quality.
Augmented
The sirens of Parisian ambulances intone this interval.
Tritone
These are the two types of periods.
Parallel and contrasting
Bach was invited to the court of this musician-emperor.
Frederick II
Handel was born in this year.
1685
The seventh chord you hear is this quality.
Minor-minor
This seventh chord contains two tritones.
Fully diminished seventh chord
Rachmaninoff creates the stunningly beautiful 18th Variation in “Variations on a theme by Paganini” by doing this to the motive.
Flipping it upside down (inversion)
This American composer wrote “The Aeolian Harp”
Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell composed “The Tides of Manaunaun” in this decade.
1920s
The seventh chord you hear is this quality.
Half-diminished
Adding a ninth to this seventh chord yields the “James Bond” chord.
Minor-major seventh chord
In rondo form, the non-A sections are called this.
Episodes (or digressions)
This piece by Arvo Part depicts a journey into and out of a twelve-tone Inferno.
Credo
Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on this day/year.
Christmas Day, 800
The melody you hear is in this form.
Sentence