Chapter 7: Key

The twelve tones of the octave, all the black and white keys in one octave on the piano, form the ___.

chromatic scale

The ___ is the smallest interval traditionally used in western music.

half step

The crucial difference between the major and minor scales is that there is only a ___ between the second and third tones.

half step

The major scale has two kinds of intervals in a specific pattern: ___ and whole steps.

half steps

___ involves not only a central tone but also a central scale and chord.

key

To indicate the key of a piece of music, the composer uses a ___.

key signature

The central tone is the ___, or tonic.

keynote

When a piece of music is based on a major scale, we say it is in a ___.

major key

The familiar do-re-mi, etc. is known as the ___.

major scale

when a piece of music is based on a minor scale, we say it is in a ___.

minor key

Shifting to one key to another within the same piece is known as ___.

modulation

A ___ is a collection made up of the basic pitches of a piece of music arranged in order from low to high or from high to low.

scale

Another term for key is ___.

tonality

No matter how often a piece changes key, there is usually one main key, called the ___ key. Modulations set up tensions that are resolved by returning to this key.

tonic

The ___ is twice as large as the half step.

whole step