Music 114 Quiz #3

Triad qualities: major, minor, diminished, or augmented

a 3-note chord spelled in 3rds, consisting of a root, 3rd, and 5th; triad qualities may be major, minor, diminished, or augmented.

Dissonance

a harmonically unstable interval or chord. Dissonant intervals include m2, M2, P4 (as a harmonic interval), A4, D5, m7, and M7. Dissonant chords include augmented triads, diminished triads, all seventh chords, and all extended chords of 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths.

Compound Intervals

an interval larger than an octave, such as a 9th or a 10th

Dominant Seventh chord: quality and spelling (in major and minor keys!)

category of chords that lead to the tonic, including V, V7, vii°, and vii°7.

Triad Inversions

flips the register of one note in the interval, where either the upper note remains fixed and the lower moves up an octave, or the lower note remains fixed and the upper note move down an octave.

Consonance

harmonically stable interval or chord. Consonant intervals include P8, P5, P4 (as a melodic interval), M3, m3, M6, m6; consonant chords include major triads and minor triad.

Interval Number Size

identified by the number of letter names, regardless of accidentals, by step between the notes, including the two notes.

Interval quality: major, minor, perfect, diminished, or augmented

particular sound color of an interval number size, depending on the number of half steps it contains, namely, major, minor, perfect, diminished, or augmented.

Interval

the distance between two notes, identified by number size and quality; may be harmonic,where the two notes sound simultaneously, or it may be melodic, where the two notes sound consecutively.

Chord

three or more notes sounding together

Harmony

two or more notes sounding together, thus the vertical dimension of music. Two notes sounding together is called an interval; three or more notes sound together, it is called a chord.

Open and Close Chord Position

Close position - a chord arrangement where each adjacent chord tone sounds in order from the lowest to the highest note. Open position - a chord arrangement that skips one or more chord tones in order from the lowest to the highest note.