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Harmony and Tonality Flashcards

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Tonality

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The key of the music

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Major

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A happy, uplifting sound

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Minor

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A sad, serious sound

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Tonal

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Has a sense of tone/key

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Atonal

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No sense of a fixed tone/key

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Pentatonic

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Five note scale

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Modal

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

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Whole tone scale

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A scale made of whole tones, mysterious

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Harmony

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Two or more notes of a different pitch

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Chromatic

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Scale with every note, moves in semitones

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Diatonic

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

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Consonance

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Harmonies that sound nice

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Dissonance

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Clashing harmonies

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Discords

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Harsh, dissonant sounding notes

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Close harmony

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Notes within the harmony are close together

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Drone

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

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Modulation

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To change key/tonality

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Tierce de picardie

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When a minor key finishes with a major chord

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Cadences - perfect, imperfect, plagal, unfinished

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

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