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Scales and Key Signatures
This category is about major, minor and other musical scales, and keys and key signatures in musical notation. All questions should relate to forms and construction of scales, and key signatures within these forms.
2,369 Questions
How would you identify the key of a piece of music?
By looking at the key signature, the first and last notes/chords, and by looking for leading tones that may be present in the minor mode.
Picture of a g major in a scale?
Here is a link to a picture of the Trebel clef G major and Tabs for G major in a scale
http://www.sixstringsensei.com/lessons/major_scale/images/tab_g_major_scale.gif
What does a C sharp look like?
It looks like a sharpened C... Jk it's a musical note you can't see it
What are major and minor ideas?
Major Details
General ideas that
support the stated
main idea of text.
• Reasons
• Points in an argument
• Points of a comparison
• Further elaboration of
main idea
Minor Details
Specifics that
illustrate or support
the major details of a
text.
• Examples
• Specific Details
• Specific Instances
• Statistics
How do you build D Major on the Treble Clef?
The D Major triad consists of the notes D F# and A. In root position, the notes would be placed in that order on the staff with D as the bottom note. This would either be in the first space below the staff or on the fourth line of the staff.
What two intervals are used to build major and minor scales?
The two intervals used to build major and minor scales are half steps and whole steps (also called minor seconds and major seconds). In the harmonic minor scale, an augmented second is used between scale degrees 6 and 7.
What flat notes are in the c minor scale?
C-flat minor is a key that only exists in theory and is never actually used. The notes are Cb Db Ebb Fb Gb Abb Bbb Cb. Those are three double-flats in the scale, which means the key signature would contain 10 flats. A preferable option would be the enharmonic equivalent key of B minor, which is B C# D E F# G A B.
What solfege sllyable starts in the minor scale?
If you are using "movable do" solfege, the first syllable is "do". If you are using "stationary do", it depends which minor scale you are using.
How does the circle of 5ths relate to the order of sharps and flats?
The Circle of Keys is a diagram of all Major and minor keys signatures. The sharp keys are arranged from the top, moving clockwise. The flat keys are arranged from the top, moving counterclockwise.
There are fifteen Major keys: seven sharp keys, seven flat keys, and one key with no sharps or flats. Likewise, there are fifteen relative minor keys.
The keys at the bottom of the circle are called enharmonic keys because their tones sound the same but are named and written differently.
The Circle of Keys is sometimes called the Circle of Fifths because the keys are arranged an interval of a fifth apart.
What is the SUBMEDIANT in the G Major scale?
The submediant, the sixth degree of the G major scale, is E.
E natural
What is the key signature of D major?
D major has two sharps, F♯ and C♯, and it's relative minor is B minor.
What scale is made up of all the black and white notes on a keyboard?
The scale you are looking for is the chromatic scale.
This scale contains every note thus all black and all white keys on the keyboard
The use of the chromatic scale is pretty limited and mostly just used in jazz music.
In jazz music you would just use it as a "passing note" which means that the note isn't in the scale but since its played quickly doesnt sound much dissonant.
Sometimes this dissonant sound of a passing note is wanted in order to make the piece more interesting.
