3.+Chapter

Terms thanks to Nicole Gruezo!!!


 * collection: ** a group of unordered pitches or pitch classes that serve as a source of music materials for a work or a section of a work
 * chromatic: ** music that includes pitches from outside the diatonic collection; consists of all 12 pitch classes.
 * diatonic: ** the collection of seven pitch classes that conforms to the pattern of the whole and half steps of the major scale
 * subset: ** a set that is part of a larger set
 * circle of fifths: ** a circular diagram showing the relationships between keys when sharps or flats are added to the key signature
 * chromatic half step: ** a semitone spelling in which both pitches have the same letter name. The sharp keys appear on the right with each key a fifth higher and the flat keys on the left each a fifth lower
 * diatonic half step: ** a semitone spelled with different letter names for the two pitches
 * dominant: ** the fifth scale degree
 * key signature: ** shows what pitches are to be sharped or flatted consistently throughout the piece or movement.
 * leading tone: ** the seventh scale degree
 * major pentachord: ** any five pitch classes, regarded as an unordered collection
 * major pentatonic: ** a five note subset of the diatonic scale that uses scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6.
 * major tetrachord: ** a series of three intervals filling in the interval of a perfect fourth
 * mediant: ** the third scale degree
 * pentatonic: ** relating to a pentatonic scale
 * scale: ** a collection of pitch classes arranged in a particular order of whole and half steps
 * major scale: ** an ordered collection of pitch classes arranged according to the pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H
 * scale degree/step: ** a name for each pitch class of the scale, showing its relationship to the tonic pitch
 * solfege: ** the use of the sol-fa syllables to name or represent thetones of a melody or voice part, or the tones of the scale, orof a particular series, as the scale of C; solmization.
 * subdominant: ** 4th scale degree
 * submediant: ** 6th scale degree
 * supertonic: ** 2nd scale degree
 * tetrachord: ** a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
 * tonic: ** 1st scale degree