Scales

Question 1

Whole Tone Scale

Answer 1

7 notes, - 6 whole tones beginning and ending on same letter name

Question 2

Major Pentatonic Scale

Answer 2

6 notes (5 plus repeated Tonic), Major scale omitting 4th and 7th degrees (t and f), drmsld, (black notes, 3 plus 2)

Question 3

Minor Pentatonic Scale

Answer 3

6 notes (5 plus repeated Tonic), natural minor scale omitting 2nd and 6th (t and f),

Question 4

Blues Scale

Answer 4

7 notes (6 plus repeated Tonic), minor pentatonic scale adding the “blue note” of the raised 4th or lowered 5th degree

Question 5

Chromatic Scale

Answer 5

All 12 semitones plus the upper Tonic for a total of 13 notes. No letter name repeats more than twice. Begins and ends on the sme Tonic

Question 6

Harmonic Chromatic Scale

Answer 6

Uses a single Tonic, Dominant, and Upper Tonic note ascending and a single Dominant and Tonic descending. All other notes are used twice.

Question 7

Melodic Chromatic

Answer 7

Any standard notation that starts and ends on the same Tonic note and does not use any letter (degree) more than twice is considered correct.

Question 8

Whole Tone Scale

Answer 8

7 notes, - 6 consecutive whole tones beginning and ending on the same letter name. Uses the same notes and accidentals ascending and descending

Question 9

Octatonic Scale

Answer 9

9 notes (8 plus repeated Tonic), alternates between tones and semitones, or semitones and tones

Question 10

Major Scale

Answer 10

8 notes (7 plus repeated Tonic), Start, WT,WT,ST,WT,WT,WT,ST. drmfsltd

Question 11

Minor Scale, natural

Answer 11

8 notes (7 plus repeated Tonic). Only the notes that occur naturally in the Key Signature. ltdrmfsl

Question 12

Minor Scale, harmonic

Answer 12

8 notes (7 plus repeated Tonic), raised 7th (7up note) written in the music with an accidental (# or X)

Question 13

Minor Scale, melodic

Answer 13

8 notes (7 plus repeated Tonic), 6up, 7up, natural down written in the music with accidentals.

Question 14

Degrees of the Scale

Answer 14

Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading Note

Question 15

Major Scale and Relative Minor Scale

Answer 15

Share the same Key Signature, have different Tonic e.g. C Major and a minor, G Major and e minor

Question 16

Major Scale and Tonic (Parallel) Minor

Answer 16

Share the same Tonic, have different Key Signature e.g. C Major and c minor, G Major and g minor

Question 17

Enharmonic Tonic (Parallel) Major

Answer 17

Begin on the same pitch but use a different letter name e.g. D flat Major and C sharp Major

Question 18

Enharmonic Tonic (Parallel) minor

Answer 18

Begin on the same pitch but use a different letter name e.g. D flat Major and c sharp minor

Question 19

Enharmonic Relative

Answer 19

Begin on the same pitch as the RELATIVE Major or minor of the given key, but use DIFFERENT letter names e.g. G flat Major and d# minor (the relative minor of G flat Major is e flat minor. the enharmonic equivalent of e flat minor is d sharp minor)

Question 20

Scale Bar Lines

Answer 20

A bar line can be used after the upper tonic

Question 21

Double Bar Line

Answer 21

All scales end with a double bar line