Scales
a five-tone scale using 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6
Major Pentatonic
major and minor keys that share the same tonic pitch but use different scales or notes
Parallel
Multiple performers play one melody with slight individual variations and start in different places. (Like a Round or Canon.)
Heterophony
the instrument family including trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba
Brass
the classification of an interval as perfect, major, minor, diminished, or augmented
Quality
a scale made up of all half steps, using sharps when ascending and flats when descending
Chromatic
major and minor keys that share most of the same notes but have different tonal centers; they are three half steps apart
Relative
one main melody supported by other musical lines that provide harmony
Homophonic, Homophony
instruments that are struck or hit, such as drums, cymbals, and marimba
Percussion
an interval of three whole steps that divides the octave evenly; also an augmented fourth or diminished fifth
Tritone
a minor scale with a raised seventh degree;Do,Re,Me,FA,So,Le, Ti Do
Harmonic minor
the V of F#
C#
one performer or section presents a melody while other performers provide harmony or counterpoint
Melody with accompaniment
instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings, including violin, viola, cello, bass, harp, and guitar
Strings
emphasis that occurs naturally because a note has an extended duration
Agogic accent
an ascending minor scale with raised sixth and seventh degrees; descending it uses natural minor
melodic minor
Name one Distantly related key to Cminor
Anything except FMaj, GMaj, Eb Major. Dminor, Eminor
Multiple melodies at the same time.
Polyphonic
a Baroque accompaniment practice using a written bass line, with an often improvised chordal part, -commonly from figured bass
Basso Continuo
an interval formed by swapping the order of its notes; the numbers of an interval and its inversion sum to 9
Inverted Interval
A minor scale that matches the key signature.
Natural Minor
What are 3 chords that are closely related to D Major
F,G,Emin,Dminor
All instruments play the exact same thing
Monophony (tutti)
The quality or character of a sound, largely determined by how it is produced and its overtones.
Timbre
An interval that is larger than an octave.
Compound Interval