Harmony and Tonality

Question 1

Tonality

Answer 1

The key of the music

Question 2

Major

Answer 2

A happy, uplifting sound

Question 3

Minor

Answer 3

A sad, serious sound

Question 4

Tonal

Answer 4

Has a sense of tone/key

Question 5

Atonal

Answer 5

No sense of a fixed tone/key

Question 6

Pentatonic

Answer 6

Five note scale

Question 7

Modal

Answer 7

Came before scales, e.g. D-D on white notes

Question 8

Whole tone scale

Answer 8

A scale made of whole tones, mysterious

Question 9

Harmony

Answer 9

Two or more notes of a different pitch

Question 10

Chromatic

Answer 10

Scale with every note, moves in semitones

Question 11

Diatonic

Answer 11

A scale only using the notes from the major/minor scale

Question 12

Consonance

Answer 12

Harmonies that sound nice

Question 13

Dissonance

Answer 13

Clashing harmonies

Question 14

Discords

Answer 14

Harsh, dissonant sounding notes

Question 15

Close harmony

Answer 15

Notes within the harmony are close together

Question 16

Drone

Answer 16

Long, sustained note usually in the bass; sometimes two notes

Question 17

Modulation

Answer 17

To change key/tonality

Question 18

Tierce de picardie

Answer 18

When a minor key finishes with a major chord

Question 19

Cadences - perfect, imperfect, plagal, unfinished

Answer 19

Two chords at the end of the musical phrase:
Perfect - 5-1
Imperfect - 1,2,4-5
Plagal - 4-1
Unfinished - 5-6