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1
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What is a chord made up of degrees 1, 3 and 5 called?

A

Triad

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2
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What intervals are required to make a major chord?

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Major 3rd between bottom and middle note
Minor 3rd between middle and top note

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3
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What intervals are required to make a minor chord?

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Minor 3rd between bottom and middle note
Major 3rd between middle and top note

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4
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What intervals are required to make a diminished chord?

A

Minor 3rd between all notes

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5
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What intervals are required to make an augmented chord?

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Major 3rd between all notes

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6
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What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?

A

Root

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What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?

A

Root

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What position is a C major chord with C in the bass? Root, 1st, 2nd or 3rd inversion?

A

2nd

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9
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What note is in the bass if the chord is a 3rd inversion chord?

A

The flattened 7th

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10
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In a dominant 7th chord, starting on a C, what are the 4 notes needed?

A

C, E, G and Bb

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11
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What are the notes in a C7 chord?

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C, E, G and Bb

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12
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What are the notes in a C major 7 chord?

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C, E, G and B

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13
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What are the notes in a C9 chord?

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C, E, G, Bb and D

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14
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What is the highest extended chord you can go to?

A

A 13th (if you write a note 15 notes above the root, you’ll start back at the beginning of the chord again)

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15
Q

How is an added chord different form an extended chord?

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You can choose which notes to add to an added chord whereas an extended chord is built on multiple stacked 3rds

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16
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How do you create a Neapolitan chord?

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Take the 2nd degree of the scale - move that note down a semitone - create a major triad built on that note - put it in first inversion

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17
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What primary chord can a Neapolitan chord most easily replace?

A

Chord IV - same bass note

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18
Q

How do you make an Italian augmented 6th chord?

A

Take chord IV of a major key
Put it in 1st inversion
Lower the bottom note by a semitone
Raise the top note by a semitone

19
Q

What note do you add to an Italian augmented 6th chord to make it a French augmented 6th chord?

A

A tone above the bottom note

20
Q

What note do you add to an Italian augmented 6th chord to make it a German augmented 6th chord?

A

A minor 3rd above the bottom note

21
Q

What other chord does a German augmented 6th chord sound like?

A

A dominant 7th

22
Q

“A leading note of a scale must always” what? “Rise” or “fall”?

A

Rise

23
Q

“A flattened 7th of a chord must always” what? “Rise” or “fall”?

A

Fall

24
Q

What chord would follow a G7 chord?

A

C

25
Q

What 3 notes make a Csus4 chord?

A

C, F and G

26
Q

In a major scale, which chords are major?

A

I, IV and V

27
Q

In a major scale, which chords are minor?

A

ii, iii and vi

28
Q

In a major scale, what type of chord is chord vii?

A

Diminished

29
Q

What type of chord is made up of the notes C and F#?

A

Augmented 4th
Tritone
Not a diminished 5th

30
Q

In the key of C major, what chord would you assume if you only had B and D?

A

G major 1st inversion

31
Q

What chords make a perfect cadence?

A

V-I

32
Q

What chords make an imperfect cadence?

A

Anything to V

33
Q

What chords make a plagal cadence?

A

IV-I

34
Q

What chords make an interrupted cadence?

A

V-vi

35
Q

In a minor key, an interrupted cadence finishes on what type of chord; major or minor?

A

Major

36
Q

In a major key, an interrupted cadence finishes on what type of chord; major or minor?

A

Minor

37
Q

What degree of the scale is the relative minor of a major scale?

A

6

38
Q

What notes make up a C11 chord?

A

C, E, G, Bb, D and F

39
Q

What chords are primary chords?

A

I, IV and V

40
Q

What type of chord helps to create a smooth modulation from one key to another?

A

A pivot chord

41
Q

What is a pivot chord?

A

A chord that belongs to two keys and can be used to help modulate from one of those keys to the other

42
Q

What 2 chords are needed to make a tonicisation?

A

V and I

43
Q

What cadence is made from chords V-vi?

A

Interrupted

44
Q

What cadence is most likely to be heard at the end of a piece of music?

A

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Eduqas: Music A Level: (10 decks)

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