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What is the difference between a major and a minor scale?
A major scale has a brighter, happier sound, while a minor scale sounds more somber due to
the lowered third, sixth, and seventh notes.
What is the term for the fifth note of a ma...
Intermediate Music Theory Latest
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What is the difference between a major and a minor scale?
✔✔ A major scale has a brighter, happier sound, while a minor scale sounds more somber due to
the lowered third, sixth, and seventh notes.
What is the term for the fifth note of a major scale?
✔✔ Dominant
What does "andante" mean in music?
✔✔ Moderately slow
What is the definition of a perfect fourth interval?
✔✔ An interval between two notes that is four letter names apart and has a four-note span, such
as C to F.
What is the term for a chord built on the second degree of a scale?
✔✔ Supertonic
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, What is the difference between a sharp and a flat?
✔✔ A sharp raises a note by a half step, and a flat lowers a note by a half step.
What is the name for the notes that are part of the harmonic minor scale, but not the natural
minor scale?
✔✔ Raised seventh and raised sixth
What is the term for the first note of a scale?
✔✔ Tonic
What is a suspension in music theory?
✔✔ A note that creates tension by holding over a note from the previous chord and resolving
down by step to the next chord.
What is the time signature for a piece with three beats per measure and a half note getting one
beat?
✔✔ 3/2
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