1. Basic - Review

Question 1

Where are the semi-tones in a major scale?

Answer 1

Between scale degrees three and four and seven and eight.

Question 2

Where are the semi-tones in a natural minor scale?

Answer 2

Between scale degrees two and three and five and six.

Question 3

Where are the semi-tones in a harmonic minor scale?

Answer 3

Between scale degrees two and three, five and six and seven and eight.

Question 4

Where are the semi-tones in a melodic minor scale?

Answer 4

Between scale degrees two and three and seven and eight ascending and between six and five and three and two descending.

Question 5

What is the key signature of C Major/a minor?

Answer 5

No sharps or flats.

Question 6

Where are the semi-tones in a melodic minor scale?

Answer 6

Between scale degrees two and three and seven and eight ascending and between six and five and three and two descending.

Question 7

What is the key signature of C Major/a minor?

Answer 7

No sharps or flats.

Question 8

What does a sharp symbol do?

Answer 8

Raises the pitch of a natural note one half step.

Question 9

What does a flat symbol do?

Answer 9

Lowers the pitch of a natural note one half step.

Question 10

How many pitches are available in any octave?

Answer 10

12

Question 11

How many pitches have their own line, space or note in any octave?

Answer 11

7 (A B C D E F G) - 7 notes are natural notes

Question 12

When are two notes Enharmonic?

Answer 12

If the are the same pitch (they sound the same) but are named and written differently.

Question 13

Where is the key signature placed?

Answer 13

After the clef and before the Time Signature.

Question 14

What notes does the key signature affect and when is this not the case?

Answer 14

All the notes on the staff or ledger lines unless cancelled by an accidental.

Question 15

Where are accidentals placed and what notes do they apply to?

Answer 15

In front of the note and apply only to the note on that specific line or space in the same measure.

Question 16

What does a bar line cancel?

Answer 16

Any accidental but not the Key Signature.

Question 17

What is a chromatic semitone?

Answer 17

A semitone that uses the same letter name.

Question 18

What is a diatonic semitone?

Answer 18

A semitone that uses a different letter name.

Question 19

What it’s an Enharmonic Equivalent?

Answer 19

A note of the same pitch with different letter names.

Question 20

What is an interval?

Answer 20

The distance in pitch between two notes.

Question 21

In an interval, what does the lowest note do?

Answer 21

Names the Major Key.

Question 22

What intervals are Perfect?

Answer 22

1, 4, 5 and 8.

Question 23

What intervals are Major or minor?

Answer 23

2, 3, 6 and 7.

Question 24

How is an Harmonic Interval written?

Answer 24

One note above the other.

Question 25

How is an Melodic Interval written?

Answer 25

One note beside each other.

Question 26

What are technical degree name used for?

Answer 26

To identify each degree of the scale.

Question 27

What are the technical degree names for the 1st, 4th and 5th notes in a scale?

Answer 27

Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant.

Question 28

A. In relation to triads, what do Roman Numerals identify?

B. What do upper case and lower case Roman Numerals indicate?

Answer 28

A. The type/quality of a triad built on each degree of a scale.
B. Upper case - Major triads, lower case, minor triads.

Question 29

What is special about the Dominant triad of a harmonic minor key?

Answer 29

It always contains the raised 7th note and is always Major.

Question 30

What does each note and rest indicate?

Answer 30

A specific time value of sound and a specific time value of silence.

Question 31

What is the time value of:
A. A whole note or rest?
B. A half note or rest?
C. A Quarter note or rest?
D. A eighth note or rest?
E. A sixteenth note or rest?
F. A thirty-second note or rest?

Answer 31

A.  4 beats
B.  2 beats
C.  1 beat
D.  1/2 beat
E.  1/4 beat
F.  1/8 beat

Question 32

Where is a whole rest placed on a staff?

Answer 32

In space 3, hanging from line 4.

Question 33

Where is a half rest placed on a staff?

Answer 33

In space 3, sitting on line 3.

Question 34

Where does an 1/8 and 1/16 rest start on the staff?

Answer 34

In space 3.

Question 35

Where does a 1/32 rest start on the staff?

Answer 35

In space 4.

Question 36

What are the 2 rules for flags on the 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 notes?

Answer 36

The flag goes to the right and the end of the flag does not touch the note head.

Question 37

What is the rule for stems on beamed notes?

Answer 37

The note farthest away from the third line (middle line) determines the direction of all stems. Notes above the middle line, the stems go down on the left. Notes below the middle line, stems go up on the right. Notes on the middle line, stems can go either way.

Question 38

What is transposing?

Answer 38

Writing a melody in a different octave in the same clef or an alternate clef or in the same pitch in a different octave

Question 39

When transposing, what note do you look for first?

Answer 39

Middle C.

Question 40

What are the top numbers in simple time and what does the top number indicate?

Answer 40

2, 3 or 4. The number of beats per measure.

Question 41

What are the bottom numbers in simple time and what does the bottom number indicate?

Answer 41

2, 4, 8 or 16

The kind of note that equals one beat.

Question 42

In reference to the Time Signature, what is a Basic Beat?

Answer 42

A single note for each equal group.

Question 43

What is the basic beat in simple time signatures?

Answer 43

2 - half note
4 - quarter note
8 - eighth note
16 - sixteenth note.

Question 44

What is a scoop? When are scoops joined together?

Answer 44

A visual aid in grouping notes and/or rests into one beat. Scoops are joined together when the note or rest values equal more than one basic beat.

Question 45

What is the Pulse in relation to simple time signature?

Answer 45

A pulse is where the rhythmic emphasis falls.
2 - Strong, weak
3 - Strong, weak, weak
4 - Strong, weak, Medium, weak

Question 46

What is the general rule with respect to whole rests?

Answer 46

A whole rest fills any measure with silence.

Question 47

What are the 2 exceptions to the general rule with respect to whole rests?

Answer 47

1. In 3/2 time, a whole rest receives 2 beats of silence for beats 1 and 2 (Strong + weak) when a half note value is on beat 3.
2. In 4/2 time, a whole rest receives 2 beats of silence for beats 1 and 2 (Strong + weak = 2 half notes) or 2 beats of silence for beats 3 and 4 (Medium + weak = 2 half notes

Question 48

In 4/2 time, how many beats of sound or silence does a breve note or rest receive?

Answer 48

Breve rest - receives 4 beats of silence and fills the whole measure.

Breve note- receives 4 beats of sound (4 half notes).

Question 49

What does “articulation” mean?

Answer 49

The type of touch.