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20 Cards in this Set
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Church Modes
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The names of the church modes are Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian, and they match geographic or ethnic regions in ancient Greece.
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Melodic Minor
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Lower the 3rd on the way up, and 3,6,7 on the way down
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Harmonic Minor
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Lower 3 and 6
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Scale Degrees
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Tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominatnt, sub mendiant, leading tone (or sub tonic of it is lowered), and tonic again.
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Dominant 7th chord
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Major third, minor 7th
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Half-diminished 7th chord
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Diminished triad (lowered 3rd and 5th) and a minor seventh.
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Fully-diminished 7th chord
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Diminished triad and a diminished (lowered twice) seventh.
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Phrygian Half Cadence
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iv6 to V
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Deceptive Cadence
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V to anything other than I
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Plagal Cadence
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IV to I (including inversions)
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Perfect Authentic Cadence
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V to I, no inversions
tonic is in the last soprano note Root position |
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Half Cadence
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anything to a V chord
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What should you avoid when writing harmonies?
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Parallel 5ths and octaves!
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Relative minor of Bb major
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g minor
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Relative minor of Ab major
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f minor
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Relative major of b minor
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D major
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how many sharps or flats does the key of e minor have?
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1 sharp, equivalent of G major.
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Oblique Motion
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In part-writing, oblique motion occurs when one voice (or more) remains on the same pitch while the other ascends or descends.
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Pedal Point
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Term used for a drone (a low, sustained tone) that remains steady in the bass of a composition while other voices move about above it. An organ point is also called a pedal tone, a pedal, or a drone.
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The harmonic sequence is the same for minor and major key signitures, except for what difference?
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The VII is before the III in the minor key.
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