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12 - Musical Terms, Definitions and Signs Flashcards

Use this deck to learn Musical Terms, Definitions and Signs, and review chords, modes, intervals and more. Audio is included to supplement your learning. Master Your Musicianship Skills - Complete Lesson 12 of the matching Ultimate Music Theory Advanced Workbook to enhance your music theory training. UltimateMusicTheory.com (195 cards)

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Explain the musical term seconda.

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seconda - second; second or lower part of a duet

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Explain the musical term all’.

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all’ - in the manner of

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Explain the musical term ed.

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ed - and

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Explain the musical term pizzicato.

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pizzicato - for stringed instruments; pluck the string instead of bowing

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Explain the musical term simile.

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simile - continue in the same manner as has just been indicated

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Explain the musical term assai.

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assai - much, very much

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Explain the musical term ma.

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ma - but

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Explain the musical term non.

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non - not

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Explain the musical term tacet.

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tacet - be silent

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Explain the musical term ben.

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ben - well

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Explain the musical term sopra.

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sopra - above

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Explain the musical term troppo.

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troppo - too much

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Explain the musical term meno.

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meno - less

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Explain the musical term non troppo.

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non troppo - not too much

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Explain the musical term poco.

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poco - little

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Explain the musical term bene.

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bene - well

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Explain the musical term molto.

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molto - much, very

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Explain the musical term più.

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più - more

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Explain the musical abbreviation M.S.

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M.S. - mano sinistra - left hand

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Explain the musical term poco a poco.

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poco a poco - little by little

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Explain the musical term sempre.

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sempre - always, continuously

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Explain the musical term senza.

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senza - without

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Explain the musical term subito.

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subito - suddenly

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Explain the musical term quasi.

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quasi - almost, as if

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Name and explain the musical sign.
*ottava* - the interval of an octave
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Explain the musical sign.
Play one octave above the written pitch
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Explain the musical sign.
Play one octave below the written pitch
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Name and explain the musical sign.
repeat sign - repeat the music within the double bar lines
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Name and explain the musical sign.
tie - hold for the combined value of the tied notes
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Which term does not mean "well"? *ben*, *con*, *bene*
*con* - with
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Which term does not mean "and"? *ma*, *e*, *ed*
*ma* - but
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Which term does not mean "first; the upper part of a duet"? *seconda*, *primo*, *prima*
*seconda* - second; second or lower part of a duet
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Which term does not mean "with"? *col*, *colla*, *ed*
*ed* - and
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Which term does not mean "second; second or lower part of a duet"? *semplice*, *secondo*, *seconda*
*semplice* - simple
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Name the term meaning - second; second or lower part of a duet.
*seconda*
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Name the term for stringed instruments meaning - pluck the string instead of bowing.
*pizzicato*
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Name the term meaning - continue in the same manner as has just been indicated.
*simile*
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Name the term meaning - much, very much.
*assai*
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Name the term meaning - but.
*ma*
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Name the term meaning - not.
*non*
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Name the term meaning - be silent.
*tacet*
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Name the term meaning - above.
*sopra*
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Name the term meaning - too much.
*troppo*
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Name the term meaning - less.
*meno*
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Name the term meaning - not too much.
*non troppo*
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Name the term meaning - little.
*poco*
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Name the term meaning - much, very.
*molto*
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Name the term meaning - more.
*più*
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Name the term meaning - little by little.
*poco a poco*
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Name the term meaning - always, continuously.
*sempre*
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Name the term meaning - without.
*senza*
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Name the term meaning - suddenly.
*subito*
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Name the term meaning - almost, as if.
*quasi*
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Name the key of the melody.
E flat Major
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Name the key of the melody.
c minor
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Name the key of the melody.
A Major
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Name the key of the melody.
c sharp minor
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Name the key of the melody.
A flat Major
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Name the key of the melody.
B flat Major
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Name the key of the melody.
g minor
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Name the key of the melody.
f minor
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Name the key of the melody.
f sharp minor
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Name the key of the melody.
G Major
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Name the key of the melody.
e minor
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Name the key of the melody.
D flat Major
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Name the key of the melody.
b flat minor
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Name the key of the melody.
C Major
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
a flat minor melodic scale Leading note
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
c minor melodic scale Tonic
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Name the Major scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
C sharp Major scale Subdominant
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
d minor harmonic scale Mediant
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Name the Major scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
F Major scale Dominant
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
a minor melodic scale Submediant
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
f minor harmonic scale Leading note
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
a sharp minor harmonic scale Submediant
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
b flat minor natural scale Supertonic
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Name the minor scale. Identify the technical degree name of the first note.
e minor harmonic scale Leading note
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Name the mode.
Aeolian mode starting on D sharp
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Name the mode.
Dorian mode starting on G
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Name the mode.
Mixolydian mode starting on B
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Name the mode.
Phrygian mode starting on E sharp
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Name the mode.
Phrygian mode starting on B
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Name the mode.
Dorian mode starting on A flat
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Name the mode.
Lydian mode starting on A
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Name the mode.
Aeolian mode starting on D
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Name the mode.
Mixolydian mode starting on A
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Name the mode.
Lydian mode starting on F sharp
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Name the notes of the f minor harmonic scale descending starting on the Tonic.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the c minor harmonic scale descending starting on the Supertonic.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the F Major scale ascending starting on the Mediant.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the Dorian mode ascending starting on F sharp.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the Phrygian mode descending starting on A.
The notes are
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Name the note of the e flat minor melodic scale ascending starting on the Subdominant.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the Mixolydian mode descending starting on A flat.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the a sharp minor harmonic scale ascending starting on the Leading note.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the g sharp minor melodic scale descending starting on the Dominant.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the D Major scale descending starting on the Submediant.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the Aeolian mode ascending starting on B.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the Lydian mode descending starting on A flat.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the a flat minor melodic scale ascending starting on the Submediant.
The notes are
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Name the notes of the c minor natural scale ascending starting on the Subtonic.
The notes are
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Identify the scale as whole tone, blues or a mode.
Dorian mode starting on E flat
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Identify the scale as chromatic, octatonic or blues.
chromatic scale starting on C sharp
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Identify the scale as chromatic, octatonic or blues.
blues scale starting on G
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Identify the scale as Major, Major pentatonic or whole tone.
Major pentatonic scale starting on D
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Identify the scale as Major pentatonic, minor pentatonic or chromatic.
chromatic scale starting on F
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Identify the scale as whole tone, chromatic or octatonic.
whole tone scale starting on E flat
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Identify the scale as blues, Major pentatonic or minor pentatonic.
blues scale starting on B flat
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Identify the scale as octatonic, Major pentatonic or minor pentatonic.
minor pentatonic scale starting on A sharp
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Identify the scale as Major pentatonic, minor pentatonic or minor harmonic.
Major pentatonic scale starting on B flat
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Identify the scale as Major pentatonic, minor pentatonic or whole tone.
whole tone scale starting on A
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Identify the scale as blues, octatonic or chromatic.
octatonic scale starting on G
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Identify the scale as Major pentatonic, minor pentatonic or a mode.
minor pentatonic scale starting on F
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Identify the scale as octatonic, whole tone or a mode.
octatonic scale starting on C
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Identify the scale as Major, blues or a mode.
Lydian mode starting on B
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Identify the Tonic (parallel) Major key of f minor.
F Major
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Identify the Tonic (parallel) minor key of G Major.
g minor
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Identify the relative Major key of d sharp minor.
F sharp Major
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Identify the relative minor key of G flat Major.
e flat minor
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Identify the enharmonic relative minor key of G flat Major.
d sharp minor
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Identify the enharmonic relative Major key of g sharp minor.
C flat Major
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Identify the enharmonic Tonic minor key of g sharp minor.
a flat minor
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Identify the enharmonic Tonic Major key of f sharp minor.
G flat Major
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Identify the Tonic (parallel) Major key of f sharp minor.
F sharp Major
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Identify the Tonic (parallel) minor key of B flat Major.
b flat minor
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Identify the relative Major key of a flat minor.
C flat Major
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Identify the relative minor key of C sharp Major.
a sharp minor
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Identify the enharmonic relative minor key of F sharp Major.
e flat minor
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Identify the enharmonic relative Major key of b flat minor.
C sharp Major
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Identify the enharmonic Tonic minor key of e flat minor.
d sharp minor
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Identify the enharmonic Tonic Major key of c sharp minor.
D flat Major
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
D Major Perfect (Authentic)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
b flat minor Imperfect (Half cadence)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
E Major Perfect (Authentic)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
d minor Imperfect (Half cadence)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
E flat Major Plagal
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
f minor Perfect (Authentic)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
F Major Imperfect (Half cadence)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
g minor Perfect (Authentic)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
A Major Imperfect (Half cadence)
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Name the key. Identify the cadence as Perfect (Authentic), Plagal or Imperfect (Half cadence).
e minor Plagal
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh 2nd inversion
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh 3rd inversion
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh 1st inversion
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
diminished seventh root position
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh root position
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh 3rd inversion
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh 2nd inversion
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
Dominant seventh 1st inversion
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
diminished seventh root position
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Identify the type/quality as: Dominant seventh or diminished seventh. Name the position.
diminished seventh root position
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
E flat to C Major 6
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
F to C sharp Augmented 5
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
G to E natural Major 6
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
B to C minor 9
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
G flat to C Augmented 4
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
E flat to G flat minor 3
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
G natural to C flat diminished 4
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
C to B Major 7
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
B to F sharp Perfect 5
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
F sharp to G sharp Major 2
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
D sharp to E minor 2
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Name the harmonic interval note names (lower note first) below the bracket. Name the interval.
E sharp to B diminished 5
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Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
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Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
166
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
167
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
168
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
169
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
170
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
171
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
172
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
173
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
174
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
175
Identify the missing Time Signature.
The Time Signature is
176
Name the missing rests.
thirty-second rest, sixteenth rest
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Name the missing rests.
thirty-second rest, eighth rest
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Name the missing rests.
eighth rest, half rest
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Name the missing rests.
quarter rest, quarter rest
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Name the missing rests.
sixteenth rest, sixteenth rest
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Name the missing rests.
half rest, half rest
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Name the missing rests.
quarter rest, thirty-second rest
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Name the missing rests.
sixteenth rest, sixteenth rest
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Name the missing rests.
dotted half rest, eighth rest
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Name the missing rests.
thirty-second rest, sixteenth rest
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Name the missing rests.
thirty-second rest, thirty-second rest
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Name the missing rests.
whole rest, whole rest
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Imitation
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Inversion
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Sequence
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Inversion
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Sequence
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Inversion
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Imitation
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Identify the relationship below the brackets as Imitation, Sequence or Inversion.
Sequence
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