Goodall - Melody Review

In western music, an octave is composed of ___________________ half steps.

___________________ music is major and/or minor and is more limited in where its tonalities can modulate to because it is relegated to utilizing one diatonic scale at a time.

• Diatonic

• Chromatic

In tonal (diatonic) music, the most common chord progression is ____________________.

• V-IV-vi

• I-IV-V-I

• vi-iii-i

_______________ music can wander around from tonality to tonality because it uses more or all of the notes of the chromatic scale.

• Diatonic

• Chromatic

Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Long Lonesome Blues" is one of the first famous blues songs.

• True

• False

Blue notes are notes that bend ______________.

• up

• down

The _____________ is a genre of music that developed in rural America, but its roots were African.

A combination of notes whose frequencies clash or sound unpleasant are referred to as ________________.

• consonant

• dissonant

A combination of notes or frequencies that sound pleasant or harmonious is referred to as ____________________.

• consonant

• dissonant

Another term for "minor" is _____________.

• ionian

• aeolian