Pitch Natural
Natural Notes Accidental
Sharp Half Step
Flat Whole Step
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Cancels out a sharp or a flat to The attribute of a musical tone
indicate that the note is in its produced by the number of
natural state vibrations generating it
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The notes A, B, C, D, E, F, G. They
A sharp, flat, or natural symbol to repeat in alpabetical order.
the left of the note. (the white keys)
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The shortest distance between two A symbol used to indicate the note
notes is raised a half step
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The distance of pitch equal to two A symbol used to indicate the note
half steps is lowered a half step
Enharmonic Treble Clef
Equivalents (Spaces)
Staff Treble Clef (Lines)
Treble Clef Bass Clef (Spaces)
Bass Clef Ledger Lines
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Two notes that have the same pitch
(F A C E) or tone but have different names
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The five lines on which musical
(E G B D F) notes are written
A symbol used to notate pitches
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that are to be played on a higher-
pitched instrument or with the right
(G B D F A) hand on a keyboard
A symbol used to notate pitches
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Lines used to show notes that go that re to be played on a lower-
higher or lower than the five lines of pitched instrument or with the left
the staff hand on a keyboard
Octave Rhythm
Grand Staff Whole Note
Bass Clef (Spaces) Half Note
Middle C Quarter Note
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The distance between two notes
The passage of pitch through time. with the same letter name
A note written with an open note
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head that does not have a stem,
Two half note make up one whole In sheet music, treble and bass clef
note. staves that are joined together
A note written with an open note
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head and a stem either extending
up or down. Two half notes make
up one whole note. (ACEG)
A note written with a filled-in note On the grand staff, it is the first
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head and a stem either extending ledger line below the treble clef and
up or down. Two quarter notes the first ledger line above the bass
make up one half note. clef.
Eighth Note Tie
Sixteenth Note Beat
Rest Meter
Augmentation Dot Anacrusis
A note written with a filled-in note
A curved line connecting two notes head and a stem with a single flag
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of the same pitch that are to be always written to the right of the
sounded as one note equal to their stem. Two eighth notes make up a
combined note value quarter note.
A note written with filled-in note
head and stem with two flags that
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are always written to the right of the
Fixed, rhythmic pulse of a piece of stem. Two sixteenth notes make up
music one eighth note
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Requires a specific time of silence
The specific beat groupings and using symbols that correspond to
divisions that occur within music note values
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A note (or notes) that occurs before A symbol placed after a note or
the first complete measure ("pick- rest, increasing the value of the
up note") note or rest by half
Measure Time Signature
Bar Line Duple Meter
Simple Meter Triple Meter
Compound Meter Quadruple Meter
The vertical stack of numbers
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placed at the beginning of the staff
immediately following the clef to
indicate the meter A singular grouping of beats
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A meter (simple or compound)
characterized by a group of two A vertical line that seperates one
beats per measure measure from another on the staff
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A meter (simple or compound)
where each measure contains three A meter in which the beat is divided
beats into two equal parts
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A meter characterized by four beats A meter in which the beat is divided
per measure into three equal parts
Beam Scale
Duple Meter Tonic
(Compound)
Triple Meter Major Scale
(Compound)
Quadruple Meter Notate
(Compound)
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A horizontal line, used in place of
A series of musical notes organized flags, that connects groups of notes
by ascending or descending pitches together to represent a single beat
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The most important note of the A meter characterized by a
scale which gives the scale its grouping of two beats per measure
name (same as in simple meter)
A series of eight notes that begins
and ends with the same note, an
octave apart, and follows this
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pattern of whole steps (W) and half A meter (simple or compound)
steps (H) in ascending order: W-W- where each measure contains three
H-W-W-W-H beats
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A meter characterized by four beats
To write music on a staff per measure
Natural Minor Scale Relative Keys
Relative Minor Enharmonic
Scale Equivalent Key
Signatures
Musical key Scale degree
Key Signature Tonic
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A series of eight notes containing this
specific pattern of whole steps (W) and
Pairs of major and minor scales half steps (H) in ascending order:
that share the same key signature W-H-W-W-H-W-W
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Two scales with the same sounding The minor scale of a key that uses
notes that can be called by two the same shaprs and flats as a
different names major key
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The name or number of a note in a The specific set of pitches used to
scale create a piece of music
The organization of flats and sharps
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The most important note of the shown at the beginning of the staff
scale which gives the scale its that indicates in which key the
name music is written
Supertonic Sub-Mediant
Mediant Melody
Sub-Dominant Leading Tone
Dominant Transposition
The sixth scale degree; the "lower
mediant" of the scale, falling in the
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very middle between the The seventh scale degree, a whole
subdominant and higher tonic scale step down from the octave tonic in
degrees the natural minor scale
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The third scale degree; the very
A series of single notes used to middle note between the tonic and
express a musical idea the dominant scale degrees
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The seventh scale degree; only one
half-step down from the octave The fourth scale degree; right
tonic; in the major scale below the dominant scale degree
The process of rewritting notes at a
higher or lower pitch, also involving The fifth scale degree, considered
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change in the key signature and the second-most important scale
pitch, but not the time signature or degree behind the tonic scale
rhythm degree
Subtonic Adjusted Interval
Harmonic interval Unison Interval
Melodic Interval Minor Interval
Natural Interval Diminished Interval
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An interval in which the higher note The seventh scale degree, a whole
is outside the major key or scale of step down from the octave tonic in
the lower note the natural minor scale
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An interval in which success notes
lie on the same line or space in a
given staff Two notes played at the same time
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A major interval where the top note of a An interval in which one note
major interval is lowered by half a step occures after another note
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An interval where the top note of a
perfect or minor interval is lowered The major and perfect intervals
by one half step represented in the major scal
Augmented Interval Interval Size
Interval Quality Major Intervals
(include…)
Simple Interval Perfect Intervals
(include…)
Compound Interval Chord
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The number of lines and spaces, or
letter names, represented on the An interval where the top note of a major
staff or perfect is raised by one half step
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The specific type of relationship
2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th between two notes
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An interval with an octave of the
Unison, 4th, 5th, 8va (8th) starting pitch
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A harmonious group of notes that
can be played together or An interval with a size of more than
separately an octave
Arpeggio Minor Triad
Triad Diminished Triad
Root Augmented Triad
Major Triad Diatonic Triad
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The notes of a chord that are
A triad built with the minor third and broken up and played one after
the perfect fifth another in sequence
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A triad built with the minor third and A three-note chord written in thirds
the diminished fifth consisting of the root, third, and fifth
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A triad built with the major third and The foundational note on which a
the augmented fifth triad or chord is built
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Triads that use only the notes,
including sharps or flats, of a given A triad built with the major third and
scale the perfect fifth
Tonality Inverted triad
Roman Numeral Bass Note
Analysis
Major Triad / Major Root Position
Scale
Minor Triad / Minor First Inversion
Scale
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A triad where the notes are
rearranged so that the root is no The principle of organization of a
longer the lowest-sounding pitch work around a tonic
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A form of harmonic analysis where
Roman numerals are used to
The lowest-sounding pitch in a represent different chords in a
chord given score
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A triad where the root of the triad is
the lowest (bass) note
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A triad where the third of the triad is
the lowest (bass) note
Second Inversion Double Bar
Close Harmony Fermata
Open Harmony Repeat
Accent Mark Seventh Chord
The double bar line shows that the
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piece is over or that there is a major
shift in the overall idea of the piece,
such as a key of time signature A triad where the fifth of the triad is
change the lowest ( bass) note
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A symbol used to show the note
should be held longer than the Notes of the triads placed as close
normal note value together as possible
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A symbol used to signify that the
muscian should repeat the musical Harmony in which the notes of the
phrase immediately before the triad are spread out more than an
repeat sign octave
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A chord comprised of a traid (root-
third-fifth) plus the seventh above A stress or emphasis placed on the
the root note
Slur
Staccato
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A curved line between two different
notes indicating the notes are
connected and should be played
smoothly
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Detached, seperated; denoting a
style in which the tones played are
more abruptly discconected
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