Music Theory Questions
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What fifth category was later added to Sachs and Hornbostels original instrument categories?
In which scale do the alterations encourage a pull up to the tonic and downward to the fifth scale degree
What type of music is the term tessitura most often applied to?
What instrument provides an excellent visual aid for understanding pitch and harmony?
By what factor does pitch increase if you decrease the string length by half on a guitar?
What pitch functions as the second gravitational center, and may appear more frequently than the tonic?
What are the two most common positions of the C-clef?
What has the lower pitch, a kittens meow or a tomcats yowl?
What do we call it when there are two names for the same piano key?
What is the interval that spans from C natural to E natural called?
What is the highness or lowness of a sound called?
What is the dominant pitch in the key of C?
Which type of instruments provide most of the non-pitched sounds in music?
What tone begs to resolve upward to the note above it in the scale?
When musicians refer to pitch, how many tones are they referring to?
When did equal temperament tuning become dominant in Western tradition?
What are the four categories of instruments created by Curt Sachs and Erich Von Hornbostel?
5) There are ______ types of minor scales.
1) What is the correct order of sharps in a key signatures?
4) Relative major and minor tonics are separated by a