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WorksheetsGCSE Music EDUQAS Appendix C - Tonality and Harmony
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 14mins
What does 'major' tonality mean in music?
Music that sounds sad and serious
Music that uses only five notes
Music that sounds bright and happy
Music without any key centre
What does 'minor' tonality mean in music?
Music that is always loud
Music that sounds sad or serious
Music that has no melody
Music in a major key
What does it mean to modulate to the dominant key?
Changing from major to minor
Changing key to the fifth degree of the scale
Staying in the same key throughout
Using only the notes of the scale
What is meant by modulation to the relative major or minor?
A key change to a related key that shares the same key signature
Changing from a scale to an arpeggio
Moving to a completely unrelated key
Adding more accidentals
What is a pentatonic scale?
A scale using all twelve semitones
A scale using five different notes
A scale using only three notes
A minor scale with added blue notes
What are primary chords in a key?
Chords ii, iii and vi
Chords built on the 1st, 4th and 5th degrees of the scale
Chords used only in minor keys
Chords that include all notes of the scale
What are secondary chords?
Chords I, IV, V
Chords that include blue notes
Chords built on the 2nd, 3rd and 6th degrees of the scale
Chords that are only used in modulation
What is an inversion in harmony?
Playing a melody upside down
Changing the order of notes in a chord so a different note is in the bass
Adding extra notes to a chord
A repeated rhythm pattern
What does diatonic harmony mean?
What does the tonic chord refer to?
The chord built on the second note of the scale
The main 'home' chord built on the first note of the scale
A dissonant chord
A chord used in modulation
What is the subdominant chord?
Chord built on the fourth degree of the scale
A chord that ends a piece
A chord using only minor notes
The last chord before the key change
What is the dominant 7th chord?
A chord with four notes including the 7th above the dominant
A minor chord played loudly
A chord with only two notes
A diminished chord
What is a perfect cadence?
Chords IV to I
Chords V to I, sounding finished
What is an imperfect cadence?
Chords I to V
Chords V to I
Chords IV to I
Chords V to vi
What is a plagal cadence?
Chords I to V
Chords V to I
Chords IV to I
Chords V to vi
What is an interrupted cadence?
V to I
I to IV
V to vi – sounds like a surprise or unfinished
IV to I
What is a chord progression or chord sequence?
One chord repeated over and over
A sequence of chords that creates harmonic movement
A repeated melody
A scale pattern
What is harmonic rhythm?
The rhythm of the melody
The number of chords per bar
The beat of the bass drum
The syncopation in the melody
What is a drone?
A. A repeating melody
B. A sustained note, usually in the bass
C. A broken chord
D. A dissonant interval
What is a pedal point (or pedal note)?
A short melodic phrase
A sustained or repeated bass note under changing harmonies
A harmony with lots of accidentals
A chord played on the piano pedals
What is dissonance in harmony?
Harmonies that sound stable and resolved
Harmonies using only major chords
A clash between notes that creates tension
A scale with no accidentals
What are power chords?
Chords made up of just the root and fifth, often used in rock music
Loud major chords
Minor 7th chords
Chords with four or more notes
