Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

165 Major Scale Key Signatures The song below, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (Stevie Wonder), may appear to be easy to sing ...

WORKBOOK: MODULE 5 NAME: Exercise 5.6—Class Exercise Rhythmic Dictation Various combinations of the following rhythms will be pl ...

“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (Stevie Wonder) in E Major using accidentals In the second example, there are many sharps draw ...

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Major Scales with Sharps In Module 6, scales were drawn with adjoining tetrachords beginning with C major. When the dominant (fi ...

BASICS OF PITCH 141 What Is a Major Scale? The major scale (from scala, Italian for “ladder”) developed from the modal system of ...

The placement of the sharps from left to right on the staff begins with a down-up-down-pattern. However, the placement of the f ...

Elements of the major scale: Has eight diatonic notes (adjacent letter names) Spans one octave, beginning and ending with the s ...

Exercise 1 Draw the key signature of C major and the seven scales with sharps. Finding the Tonic Note in a Major Scale with Shar ...

Exercise 1 Draw a tetrachord from the given note using accidentals as needed. Place an Xon the corresponding keys below. Example ...

Exercise 2—Class Exercise Name the key and draw the tonic note for the following key signatures. (The letter name of the key and ...

6. 7. To construct a major scale, join together two tetrachords with a whole step connecting them. The resulting major scale pat ...

“Good Night, Ladies,” American traditional melody Key _____________________ Meter _____________________ Sonata, K. 209 (D. Sc ...

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Writing Major Scales: Using Whole and Half Steps Major scales may also be written by following the pattern of ...

Major Scales with Flats Just as there are seven scales with one to seven sharps in their key signatures, there are seven scales ...

Exercise 3 Draw eight diatonicnotes, beginning and ending with the same pitch. Add accidentals as needed to create the correct ...

The placement of the flats in both clefs moves from left to right in an up-down-up-down pattern until the last flat. Key signa ...

5. 6. Theory Trainer Exercise 6aInput major scales. Scale Degree Names—Major Keys Each of the seven notes of a scale is given a ...

Finding the Tonic Note in a Major Scale with Flats The tonic note of a flatted scale (the key,or the tonic note)is easy to deter ...

“Liza Jane,” American folk song Key _____________________ Meter _____________________ “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ ” from Ok ...