The cards Question In a minor scale, which notes are flattened? Tap to flip Answer The 3rd and 6th Question What is the interval pattern of a minor scale? Tap to flip Answer Tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone Question Compared with a major scale, how does a minor scale sound? Tap to flip Answer More solemn (or sad) Question What does a sharp (#) show? Tap to flip Answer That a note has been raised by a semitone Question What does a natural sign show? Tap to flip Answer That a note in the bar has returned to its normal pitch Question What is a chromatic note? Tap to flip Answer A note that is not part of the key or scale Question What defines a scale's distinctive sound? Tap to flip Answer The order of the intervals from one note to the next Question Are all adjacent white notes on the keyboard a tone apart? Tap to flip Answer No: most are, but some are a semitone apart Question What does legato mean? Tap to flip Answer Moving smoothly between each note Question What is ABA structure? Tap to flip Answer Three sections, where the first and last are the same and the middle one is different Question In music, what is a sequence? Tap to flip Answer A short melodic idea repeated in steps, rising or falling Question What is rubato? Tap to flip Answer A slight speeding up and slowing down of the tempo to show expression Question What structure is the Fur Elise melody in? Tap to flip Answer ABA Question What does the middle section of Fur Elise use? Tap to flip Answer A descending sequence Question Does more rubato always make a performance more expressive? Tap to flip Answer No: it affects the tempo and pulse, so it needs subtlety Question What are relative keys? Tap to flip Answer Keys based on two scales that use the same notes, e.g. C major and A minor Question What is the relative minor of C major? Tap to flip Answer A minor Question What does a time signature show? Tap to flip Answer The number of beats in a bar Question To which key does the B section of Fur Elise change? Tap to flip Answer The relative major Question Give one distinctive feature of Fur Elise. Tap to flip Answer e.g. the opening motif, the use of sequence or the constant quaver rhythm Question How many semitones apart must a major and its relative minor scale start? Tap to flip Answer Three Question What is a broken chord? Tap to flip Answer When the notes of a chord are sounded one at a time Question What is an octave? Tap to flip Answer An interval of eight notes, whose ends have the same name, e.g. C to C Question What is the downbeat? Tap to flip Answer The first and strongest beat of the bar Question What is the difference between a sense of pulse and a sense of rhythm? Tap to flip Answer Pulse is understanding the underlying beat; rhythm is understanding where the stress falls in a bar or rhythm Question What is chromatic movement? Tap to flip Answer Using notes outside the normal (major or minor) key Question What is an accidental? Tap to flip Answer A sign showing that a note is sharp, flat or natural Question Must two sections labelled A in a piece be exactly the same? Tap to flip Answer No: the letters describe sections overall, and there are often slight differences Question What is an accent? Tap to flip Answer An emphasis on a note Question What does piano mean as a dynamic? Tap to flip Answer Play quietly Question What does forte mean? Tap to flip Answer Play loudly Question What is a crescendo? Tap to flip Answer Gradually getting louder Question Which note of a chord triad is the fifth? Tap to flip Answer The top note Question What does an accompaniment part outline? Tap to flip Answer The harmony of a piece Question Which notes of the chord does the In the Hall of the Mountain King accompaniment play? Tap to flip Answer The root and the fifth Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Music Unit Minor, major and developing keyboard skills 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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