Chapter 3 - Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys

Question 1

Chromatic

Answer 1

Pitches from outside the diatonic collection. The chromatic collection consist of all 12 pitch classes.

Question 2

Chromatic Half Step

Answer 2

A semitone between two pitches with the same letter name.

Question 3

Circle of Fifths

Answer 3

A circular diagram showing the relationships between keys. The sharp keys appear around the right side of the circle, with each key a fifth higher moving clockwise. The flat keys appear around the left side, with each key a fifth lower moving counterclockwise.

Question 4

Collection

Answer 4

A group of unordered pitches or pitch classes that serve as a source of musical materials for a work or a section of a work; a large set

Question 5

Diatonic Half Step

Answer 5

A semitone between two pitches with different letter names

Question 6

Dominant

Answer 6

Scale degree 5; The triad built on 5

Question 7

Key Signature

Answer 7

A sign that appears at the beginning of each line of a musical score, after the clef, showing which pitches are to be sharped or flatted consistently; helps determine the key

Question 8

Leading Tone

Answer 8

7 of the major scale and harmonic or ascending-melodic minor scale; a half step below the tonic

Question 9

Major Pentachord

Answer 9

The first five notes of a scale

Question 10

Mediant

Answer 10

Scale degree 3; The triad built on 3

Question 11

Pentatonic

Answer 11

Relating to, based on, or denoting a scale of five notes, especially one without semitones equivalent to an ordinary major scale with the fourth and seventh omitted

Question 12

Scale

Answer 12

A collection of pitch class is arranged in a particular order of whole and half steps

Question 13

Diatonic

Answer 13

The collection of seven pitch classes that, in some rotation, conforms to the pattern of the whole and half steps of the major scale; Made up of pitches belonging to a given diatonic collection

Question 14

Major Scale

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Major Pentatonic

Answer 15

A five-note subset of the diatonic collection that features major-key 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6

Question 16

Scale Degree

Answer 16

A name for each pitch class of the scale, showing its relationship to the tonic pitch; May be numbers, words, or solfège syllables

Question 17

Solfège Syllables

Answer 17

A singing system in which a particular syllable is associated with a particular scale step

Question 18

Subdominant

Answer 18

Scale degree 4; The triad built on 4

Question 19

Submediant

Answer 19

Scale degree 6; the triad built on 6

Question 20

Supertonic

Answer 20

Scale degree 2; The triad built on 2

Question 21

Tendency Tone

Answer 21

A chord member or scale degree whose dissonant relation to the surrounding tones requires a particular resolution in common practice style

Question 22

Tetrachord

Answer 22

Collection of four distinct pitches or pitch classes; A segment of four consecutive members of a scale

Question 23

Tonic

Answer 23

Scale degree 1; The triad built on 1