Harmony And Tonality

Question 1

Triad

Answer 1

Chord with Three Notes

Question 2

Concord

Answer 2

• Chord where all notes seem to ‘agree’ with eachother

- Feels at rest and complete in itself

Question 3

Discord

Answer 3

• chord where all the notes seems to ‘disagree’ or clash giving an unsettled feel

Question 4

Diatonic Harmony

Answer 4

• Uses notes that belong to the key

Question 5

Chromatic Harmony

Answer 5

Uses notes from outside key to give notes more ‘colour’

Question 6

Cadence

Answer 6

-Formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music

Question 7

Perfect Cadence

Answer 7

• Sounds as though the music has come to an end

- A perfect cadence is formed by the chords V-I

Question 8

Interrupted Cadence

Answer 8

• Are ‘surprise’ cadences

- Think going to hear perfect cadence, but you get a minor chord instead

Question 9

Imperfect Cadence

Answer 9

• sounds unfinished
• sound as though they want to carry on to complete the music properly
• imperfect cadence ends on chord V

Question 10

Plagal Cadence

Answer 10

• sound finished
• often used at the end of hymns and sung to ‘Amen’
• plagal cadence formed by the chords IV-I

Question 11

Tierce de Picardie

Answer 11

-Final piece in minor key ends with a major chord

Question 12

Tonal

Answer 12

-Music is in a major or minor key

Question 13

Atonal

Answer 13

-Music is not related to a tonic note and therefore has no sense of key

Question 14

Modal

Answer 14

-Music is in a mode

Question 15

Modulate

Answer 15

-When music changes key

Question 16

Drone

Answer 16

• Held or repeated chord

- Usually a bare fifth, throughout a passage of music

Question 17

Pedal

Answer 17

• Single note held on or repeated in the bass

- An inverted pedal is a sustained or repeated note in a higher register

Question 18

Ground bass

Answer 18

-Used in baroque music where a bass part is repeated throughout the piece