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What type of chord is built on the first scale degree of a major key?
Major chord
What is the interval between G and D?
A perfect fifth
What scale degree is known as the dominant?
Fifth degree
What does a "natural" symbol do to a no...
What type of chord is built on the first scale degree of a major key?
✔✔ Major chord
What is the interval between G and D?
✔✔ A perfect fifth
What scale degree is known as the dominant?
✔✔ Fifth degree
What does a "natural" symbol do to a note?
✔✔ Cancels any previous sharp or flat
What is the name of the seventh scale degree in a major scale?
✔✔ Leading tone
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,What is the purpose of a key signature?
✔✔ To indicate which notes are consistently sharp or flat
How many semitones are in a minor third?
✔✔ Three semitones
What does the term "modulation" mean in music?
✔✔ Changing keys within a piece
What is the term for a chord progression that ends on the dominant?
✔✔ Half cadence
What is a "tritone"?
✔✔ An interval of three whole steps
What does a "diminished" triad consist of?
✔✔ Two minor thirds stacked together
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,What is the term for a repeated rhythmic pattern?
✔✔ Ostinato
What is the structure of a major scale in terms of whole and half steps?
✔✔ Whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half
What is the enharmonic equivalent of F#?
✔✔ Gb
What does "transposition" mean?
✔✔ Changing the pitch of a piece to a different key
What is the dominant chord in the key of D major?
✔✔ A major
What is the term for notes played smoothly and connectedly?
✔✔ Legato
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, What is a "counterpoint" in music?
✔✔ The combination of two or more independent melodic lines
What does a "plagal cadence" resolve from?
✔✔ From the IV chord to the I chord
What is the interval between B and F?
✔✔ A diminished fifth
What is the harmonic minor scale different from the natural minor scale?
✔✔ The seventh note is raised by a half step
What is the name for the third scale degree?
✔✔ Mediant
What type of cadence ends a piece definitively?
✔✔ Authentic cadence
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