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Flashcards by anusha.stribbling, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by anusha.stribbling
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| Question | Answer |
| Chromatic | Relating to or using notes that don't belong to the diatonic scale of the key the music is playing in |
| Conjunct | When the music is moving in steps |
| Disjunct | When the music is moving in leaps |
| Diatonic | Only using the seven tones of a standard scale without any chromatic alterations |
| Pentatonic | A scale consisting of five notes (most commonly 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th notes of the major diatonic scale) |
| Semitonal | an interval equal to a half tone in the standard diatonic scale |
| Blues Scale | A different scale compared to the major scale, mainly used in jazz, blues songs The third, fifth and the seventh notes are flattened. You only use the 1st ,3rd ,4th ,5th ,7th notes of the scale. |
| Triadic | Playing in triads (groups of three) |
| Augmented | Increasing the note values of the notes previously played |
| Diminution | Decreasing the note values of the notes previously played |
| Decorated (ornaments) | Notes which are added to the main notes of a piece of music in order to make it interesting (can also be described as embellishment) |
| Trill | The rapid alternation of two tones either a whole or a half tone apart |
| Mordents | A note played with a single rapid alternation of two tones |
| Turn | consists of four or five notes, the principal notes a degree above and below it (it turns around the principal note) |
| Appoggiatura | When a note is leaned on before playing the principal note, consists in suspending or delaying a note, taking part of its value |
| Acciaccatura | Played as quickly as possible before the note that followers it |
| Nachschlag | The opposite of appoggiatura and consists of a short grace note played AFTER the principal note |
| Shake/Trill | A rapid alternation |
| Anacrusis | is the note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar |
| Intervals | The distance between two pitches |
| Ascending Scale | When a scale is rising in pitch |
| Passing notes | a non harmonic note played that leads from one harmonic note to the next |
| Notes of anticipation | introduction on the weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved |
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