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AP Music Theory Review-Scales/Keys/Modes

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A musical symbol (sharp, flat, natural, double sharp, or double flat) that appears before a note to raise or lower its pitch chromatically.

Chromatic, chromaticism

Chromatic music includes pitches from outside the diatonic collection. The chromatic collection consists of all twelve pitch classes.

(1) The collection of seven pitch classes that, in some rotation, conforms to the pattern of the whole and half steps of the major scale (a subset of the chromatic collection). (2) Made up of pitches belonging to a given diatonic collection.

Located at the beginning of each line of a musical score after the clef, a key signature shows which pitches are to be sharped or flatted consistently throughout the piece or movement. Helps determine the key of the piece.

An ordered collection of pitches arranged according to the following pattern of whole and half steps: W-W-H-W-W-W-H.