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WorksheetsScales and Key Signatures
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 4mins
In music theory, what is a scale?
Any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.
Any set of sharp, flat, or rarely, natural symbols placed on the staff at the beginning of a section of music.
A set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch.
The speed or pace of a given piece.
What are some characteristics of the major scale?
One of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.
One of the diatonic scales. The sequence of intervals between the notes of a major scale is W, W, h, W, W, W, h.
Composed of seven notes; the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note.
Had and continues to have a central importance in Western music, particularly in the common practice period and in popular music.
Can be seen as two identical tetrachords separated by a whole tone. Each tetrachord consists of two whole tones followed by a semitone (i.e W, W, h).
It possible to build any major scale using the twelve notes of the keyboard and the major scale formula; W, W, h, W, W, W, h. Which of the following sequences of notes comprises the E♭ major scale?
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D, E♭
D, E, F♯, G, A, B, C♯, D
B♭, C, D, E♭, F, G, A, B♭
Often most or all of the melody and harmony of a musical work is built using the notes of a single scale. These scales can be conveniently represented on a staff with a standard key signature. Exactly how many of these key signatures exist?
30
7
14
28
What is a diatonic scale?
Any heptatonic (consisting of seven pitches per octave) scale that includes five whole steps and two half steps in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps.
A series of four notes separated by three intervals.
A set of twelve pitches used in tonal music with notes separated by the interval of a semitone. It is seldom used in its entirety in musical compositions or improvisation.
The arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.
