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22 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Bar Lines
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Tge vertical lines that extend from the first to the fifth line of a staff.
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Beats
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A continuos flow of regular pulses, forming the basis of meter. Beats may follow one another at a slow, moderate or fast rate.
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Chord
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Any combination of three or more simultaneously sounding pitches.
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Common time
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A name applies to the 4-4 meter, often notated with a symbol (C) in the place of a 4-4 time signature
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Diatonic
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A description of the seven pitches per octive that form the scale for a given major or natural minor key.
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Double Bar
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Two vertical lines, the second of which is thicker than the first which appear at the end of a composition
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Harmonic Minor Scale
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A varient of the natural minor scale in which the raised seventh scale degree (leading tone) takes the place of the diatonic seventh scale degree (subtonic)
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Inversion
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Exchanging the positions of a simple interval's two comonent pitches, so that the lower pitch becomes the higher pitch.
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Ledger Lines
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A short horizontal line that serves as a temporary extension of the staff
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Major
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an interval quality applies to seconds, thirds, sixths, sevenths and their compounds. Major intervals are a half step larger than minor intervals
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Measure
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Each of the groupings of beats in a specific meter, set off in staff notation by bar lines.
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Melodic minor scale
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A variant of the natural minor scale in which the sixth and seventh scale degrees are raised in the ascent and diatonic in the descent
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Meter
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The segmenting of uniform pulses into groups and the organization of the pulses within each group into strong and weak beats
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Minor
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A triad quality. A minor triad has a minor thrid between its root and third and a perfect fifth between its root and fifth.
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Pitch
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A musical sound named according to its position within a range from low to high
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Rythm
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how music unfolds over time, notated in relation to the underlineing pilse of a meter
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Root
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The loweest pitch of a triad
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Staff
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the standard format for score notation consisting of a set of five evenly spaces horizontal lines
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Tempo
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the speed at which the beats of the meter follow one another
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Time signature
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a symbol such as 4-4 or 6-8 that appears near the left edge of the staff to indicate the meter
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Tonic
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the most stable pitch of a key, serbing as the first and last pitches of its scale and the triad whose root is the first scale degree of the prevaling key.
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Teble cleff
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a symbol used in the notation of pitches in the middle to high range on a staff
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