The cards Question What is the bass clef used to notate? Tap to flip Answer Pitches below middle C Question Which clef is the partner of the bass clef? Tap to flip Answer The treble clef Question What is a stave? Tap to flip Answer Five horizontal lines and four spaces that represent different pitches Question Which hand usually plays bass clef notes on the keyboard? Tap to flip Answer The left hand Question When is the left hand in the F position on a keyboard? Tap to flip Answer When the little finger (5) is on F Question In the left-hand C position, which finger is on C? Tap to flip Answer The little finger Question What is a ground bass? Tap to flip Answer A short bass line that repeats throughout a piece, forming its structure Question Which years does the baroque period in Western music span? Tap to flip Answer 1600 to 1750 Question What is the tonic? Tap to flip Answer The first and most important note of a scale, often called the home note Question What is the dominant? Tap to flip Answer The fifth note of the scale, which often feels it needs to resolve to the tonic Question What is the leading note? Tap to flip Answer The seventh note of the scale, which often feels it needs to resolve up to the tonic Question In which period of music was ground bass popular? Tap to flip Answer The baroque period Question Why does a ground bass tend to start on the tonic? Tap to flip Answer To reinforce the key Question Why does a ground bass pattern finish on the dominant or leading note? Tap to flip Answer These notes naturally want to return to the tonic to start the pattern again Question What is triadic harmony? Tap to flip Answer Harmony built on thirds, using the root, third and fifth Question What is a chord? Tap to flip Answer Two or more notes played together at the same time Question What is the root of a chord? Tap to flip Answer The main note of the chord, which it is named after Question What are the primary chords of a scale? Tap to flip Answer I, IV and V Question Which three notes make up a triad? Tap to flip Answer The root, third and fifth Question How many chords are there in a scale? Tap to flip Answer Seven Question When adding triadic harmony to a ground bass, which chords should you choose? Tap to flip Answer Chords that contain the bass note Question What is an arpeggio? Tap to flip Answer The notes of a chord played one after another, ascending or descending Question In what order does an Alberti bass play the notes of a chord? Tap to flip Answer Lowest, highest, middle, highest Question What is an octave? Tap to flip Answer An interval of eight notes, e.g. a C and the next C Question How many beats is a semibreve worth? Tap to flip Answer Four beats Question What is another name for a semibreve? Tap to flip Answer A whole note Question How much of a beat is a semiquaver worth? Tap to flip Answer 1/4 of a beat Question How much is a dotted note worth? Tap to flip Answer 1.5 times the value of the original note Question What is the tresillo? Tap to flip Answer A syncopated three-note rhythm stretched across four beats Question What pattern is the tresillo often called? Tap to flip Answer 3-3-2 Question What is the habanera? Tap to flip Answer A two-beat rhythm that uses dotted notes and an accented upbeat Question What is a passing note? Tap to flip Answer A melodic note not from the chord that links two chord tones Question What is a monophonic texture? Tap to flip Answer A single line of music Question What is a homophonic texture? Tap to flip Answer Two or more musical lines moving at the same time with the same rhythm Question What do passing notes add to a melody? Tap to flip Answer Interest and a smooth melodic shape Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Music Unit Harmonic progressions and bass lines England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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