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Music Study Notes: Pitch Flashcards

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1
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Alberti Bass

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An oscillating pattern based on notes of a chord

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Arpeggio

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Notes of a chord played consecutively beyond the octave

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Atonal

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No set key structure

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Augmented

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Enlarged. Chord that has a note higher than would be in a major chord

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Broken Chord

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Notes of a chord played consecutively within the octave

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Cadence

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A musical ending: comma, colon, full stop

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Chromatic

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Scale based on semitones

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Conjunct

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Movement of a melody by steps

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Consonant Chords

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Stable chords

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Diminished

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Reduced. Chords that has note lower would be in a minor chord

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Disjunct

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Leaps in a melody

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Dissonant Chords

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Less stable chords

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Dominant

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Note 5 of the scale

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Harmony

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Combination of notes sounded together

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Melodic Contour

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Shape of the melody

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Melody

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Tune of the music

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Modes

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Early form of scales based on notes with no sharps or flats

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Motive

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Small rhythmic or melodic cell used to develop the music

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Pedal Point

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Repeated or sustained note held over a few bars of music

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Pentatonic

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Five-note scale

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Pitch

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High, middle low sounds in music

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Range

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Highest and lowest notes heard

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Register

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Height where the music is played

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Riff

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Small repeated phrase

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Sequence

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Melodic phrase repeated higher or lower in pitch

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Subdominant

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Note 4 of the scale

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Suspension

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Note of a chord held over into a new chord

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Syncopation

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Offbeat displacement of the natural accent in music

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Tonality

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Key centre of the music

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Tonic

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Note 1 of the scale

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Whole Note

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Scales based on intervals of a tone

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