Good To Remember Flashcards
G & F Clef
Treble & Bass Clef
Breve: 2 whole notes combined
Anacrusis
Pick up
- will often end with an incomplete bar
Rests can combine in 1st or 2nd half of bar
Compound time signature
The basic beat is subdivided into groups of 3
Tetrachord
A set of 4 tones (WWHW & WWWH)
Relative Minor Scale
Find going 3 half steps down
Identifying a Minor Key
- triad or scale?
Melody Writing Terminology
Motives: short Rhythmic or melodic ideas
Phrases: Musical Sentence finished or unfinished
Melodic Motion:repeated notes, steps, skips, leaps
Stable:
Unstable:
Periods: 2 four measure periods (antecedent/question, consequent/answer) e.g. parallel period
Can be identified using letters (a: 1st phrase & any other phrase that’s exactly the same, a1: similar but not the same, b: phrases that are different or contrasting)
Triads
Harmonic Minor: I: minor 3rd= minor chord
IV: minor 3rd= minor chord
V: Major 3rd= major chord (use accidental)
Functional Chord Symbol
Uppercase Roman numerals are used to symbolize, major triad, lowercase for Minor
Below staff
Dominant 7th Chord
Adding a seventh above root, which is dominant
* Are parallel major and minor keys share the same dominant seventh chord [in minor keys, and accidental is required to raise the leading tone]
**functional chord symbol is V7
***root quality chord symbol: root + 7 (G7)
Scale Degree Names
8- tonic
7-leading tone/subsonic
6-SUBMEDIANT
5-Dominant
4-Subdominant
3-MEDIANT
2-SUPERTONIC
1-Tonic
Parallel Keys
E.g. A Major and A Minor
When identifying keys…
-Listen
-first and last note
-triads and scales
-leading tone/sub tonic
