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Music Fund. Final

Terms in this set (83)

Energy that moves through the air

Raises the pitch of a note a half step

Lowers the pitch of a note a half step

Cancels a previous accidental

Double sharp (dotted x)

Raises the note a whole step

Double flat (bb)

Lowers the note a whole step

Enharmonic Spelling

One key with TWO names ( notating the same pitch with a different name)

Basic symbols for writing music

highness or lowness of a sound

Draw a Treble clef (G Clef)

Draw a Bass clef (F Clef)

Are used to extend the staff in order to notate pitches above or below the five lines and four spaces

is action in time

Half step (semi-tone)

smallest measurable distance in music

Whole step (Whole-tone)

Chromatic Semi-tone (CST)

Noticed with the same letter names

Diatonic Semi-Tones (DST)

Notated with two DIFFERENT letter names

Rhythmic notation

System used to indicate number of actions in music

the on going pulse

the speed of the beat

is a group of beats

group of beats enclosed with bar lines

Down beat (strong or accented beat)

first beat of the measure

How many beats are in a measure, What note equals 1 beat

Device that provides basic pulse at specific tempo

Diatonic scales

Identifies a scale that uses successive letter names and contains 5 WHOLE steps and 2 HALF steps

Notes on the diatonic scale

Constructing a MAJOR scale

5 Whole steps half steps between (3&4) and (7&8)

All the pitches used in a piece

Most prominent pitch, Pitch to which all others are drawn (end note)

The music based on the the system of tonality

Melodies (Melody)

Musical action in time

The distance between any two pitches

Melodic Interval

one pitch after another

Harmonic Interval

Both pitches played at the same time

When the lower or higher note is replaced by the same note an octave higher or lower

Melody that moves by 2nds, proceeds by step

Melody that has intervals in 3rds

Intervals larger than 3

Organize the use of accidentals in Tonal Music

Circle of 5th's

Diagram that presents the order of the keys and the number of accidentals for each key in a logical way, starting with "C MAJOR"

Describes the way music is organized or put together

A musical statement leading to a pause or moment of rest

Markers of a phrase design

The characteristic way the intervals of a melody create a particular contour as the pitches move up and down

Singing melodies

do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do,

D.C. Al Fine (Da capo al fine)

from the beginning to the end

D.S. (del sagno)

Major Scale key signatures

Sharps -, F# C# D# B# A# E# B#
C, G D A E B F# C#

Flats - Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Cb Fb
C F B E A D G C

Steps to Transposing

1.) Identify the Original Key
2.) Notate the scale
3.) Write ou the scale degrees
4.) Mark each note of the melody with the proper scale degree
5.) notate the new keys scale
6.) notate the new scales scale degrees
7.) Match the pitches to the original
8.) Use the same Rhythm (beams, staff,flags)

Intervals Perfect vs Imperfect (see handout)

PERFECT
- Unisons (1) & Octaves (8)
-4ths & 5ths
- Augmented
- Perfect
- Diminished

IMPERFECT
-2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th
- Augmented
- Major
- Minor
- Diminished

Natural Minor Scale

Half Steps between (2&3) and (5&6)

Harmonic Minor Scale

Natural Minor scale but raise 7th scale degree a half step TOO

Melodic Minor Scale

Compared to the Natural Minor scale RAISE the 6th AND 7th scale degrees a half step on the ascending side and Revert back on DESCENDING side

Relative Major and Minor keys

Keys with the same key signature

Parallel Major and Minor Keys

- Always add up to 9
- Minors --> Majors
- Majors --> Minors
- Diminished --> Augmented
- Augmented --> Diminished
- Perfect -- Perfect

What are the three different types of Minor scale?

- Natural- Half steps between (2&3) and (5&6)
- Harmonic - Raise 7th scale degree up a half step
- Melodic - Raise 6th and 7th scale degrees ONTOP OF altering NATURAL SCALE and then convert to Natural scale when descending back down

2 or more pitches heard together (entity)

3 or more pitches heard together

EXACTLY 3 pitches

The central pitch of a piece or the home tone is called...

Major scales have half steps between these scale degrees

The distance between any two pitches is called...

we describe a melody that moves by 2nd's as..

A ______ scale has one of each letter name and uses only half steps and whole steps

Highness or lowness of a sound

the grouping of beats

The five accidentals are...

What scale only uses HALF steps

What scales use only WHOLE steps

The natural minor scale has half steps between these two pairs of scale degrees

(2&3) and (5&6)

The parallel Major for G minor is

The interval of a 5th can never be this quality

An interval of a 3rd can never be this quality

The three forms of the Minor scale are

natural
harmonic
melodic

the ____ form of the minor scale is the only form that uses some different pitches when it ascends and descends

the markers of phrase design

Parallel Major and minor

when the major and minor both begin with the same note

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