a major seventh is a semitone smaller than an octave; a minor seventh is a whole tone smaller than an octave
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any interval larger than a whole tone
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Diatonic scale
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any scale of the major, natural minor, melodic minor or harmonic minor scales based on a particular key note
Disjunct
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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…
Minor Scale
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having the interval of a minor third between the first and third degrees of the scale See Table of Key Signatures See Table o…
Relative Major and Minor
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Theory
Relative keys use identical accidentals but center on different tonic notes. Example: C major and A minor share no sharps or…
Table of Major and Melodic minor Scales
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See Table of Major & Melodic minor Scales
Amen Cadence
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A chord progression where the subdominant chord is followed by the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, an plagal cadence…