Index of Terms

accelerando – 3.9

accent – 1.8

accidental – 2.2

• double flat – 2.2

• double sharp – 2.2

• flat – 2.2

• natural sign – 2.2

• sharp – 2.2

adagio – 3.9

Aeolian – 11.1

allegretto – 3.9

allegro – 3.9

alto clef – 2.8

anacrusis – 3.7

andante – 3.9

answer – 9.9

appoggiatura – 5.7

articulation marks – 1.8

asymmetrical meter – 7.4

augmentation – 7.4

augmentation dot – 1.6

augmented interval (+) – 9.1

bar – 1.3

bar line – 1.3

• double bar line – 1.3

• final double bar line – 2.9

bar number – 1.3

baritone clef – 2.8

bass clef – 1.5

beam – 2.6

beat – 2.6

beat classification – 3.3

beat division  – 2.6

beat subdivision  – 2.6

blues scale – 11.8

borrowed division – 7.2

breve – 1.4

breve rest – 1.4

C clef – 2.8

cautionary accidental – 2.2

changing meter – 7.4

chromatic half step – 2.4

chromatic scale – 2.5

church modes – 11.1

circle of fifths – 4.8, 6.7

clef – 1.3

• alto clef – 2.8

• baritone clef – 2.8

• bass clef – 1.5

• C clef (or moveable C clef)– 2.8

• mezzo-soprano clef – 2.8

• soprano clef – 2.8

• tenor clef – 2.8

• treble clef – 1.3

common time – 3.2

composite meter – 7.4

compound interval – 9.2

compound meter – 5.1

compound single – 5.5

concert pitch – 10.1

consonant interval – 9.8

countersubject – 10.5

courtesy accidental – 2.2

crescendo – 2.9

cross rhythm – 7.3

cut time – 3.2

D. C. al coda – 5.8

D. C. al fine – 5.8

D. S. al coda – 5.8

D. S. al fine – 5.8

decrescendo – 2.9

diatonic half step – 2.4

diatonic modes – 11.1

diatonic scale – 4.1

diminished interval (^o) – 9.1

diminuendo – 2.9

diminution – 7.4

dissonant interval – 9.8

division – 2.6

dominant – 4.4, 6.7

Dorian – 11.1

dot – 1.6

dotted note/rest – 1.6

double bar line – 1.3

double dotted note/rest – 3.6

double flat – 2.2

double sharp – 2.2

double whole note  – 1.4

double whole rest  – 1.4

downbeat – 3.1

duplet – 7.3

dyad – 8.1

dynamics – 2.9

• forte – 2.9

• fortissimo – 2.9

• fortississimo – 2.9

• mezzo–forte – 2.9

• mezzo–piano – 2.9

• pianissimo – 2.9

• pianississimo – 2.9

• piano – 2.9

eighth note – 1.2

eighth rest – 1.4

enharmonic equivalents – 2.3

enharmonically equivalent intervals – 9.6

enharmonically equivalent keys – 4.8

fermata – 1.8

final – 11.1

final double bar line – 2.9

flag – 1.2

flat – 2.2

forte – 2.9

fortissimo – 2.9

fortississimo – 2.9

fugue – 9.9

grace note – 5.7

grand staff – 1.7

grave – 3.9

half note – 1.2

half rest – 1.4

half step – 2.1

• chromatic half step – 2.4

• diatonic half step – 2.4

harmonic interval – 8.1

harmonic minor scale – 6.9

harmonizing a melody – 8.8

hemiola – 7.4

heterophony – 10.5

homophony – 10.5

imperfect consonance – 9.8

instruments in C – 10.1

interval – 8.1

interval inversion – 9.3

interval number – 8.1

interval quality – 8.1

intervallic transposition – 9.9

Ionian – 11.1

irregular meter – 7.4

key – 4.4

key signature – 4.5

largo – 3.9

leading tone – 4.4, 6.9

• raising the leading tone – 6.9

ledger line – 1.3

Locrian – 11.1

Lydian – 11.1

madrigal – 10.5

major interval – 8.2

major key – 4.4

major key signatures – 4.6, 4.7

major pentatonic – 11.8

major scale – 4.3

major tetrachord – 4.1

marcato – 1.8

me-modes – 11.8

measure – 1.3

measure number – 1.3

mediant – 4.4, 6.7

melodic – 4.1

melodic contour – 4.9

melodic interval – 8.1

melodic minor scale – 6.10

melodic transposition – 4.9

meter – 3.1

meter classification – 3.3

mezzo-forte – 2.9

mezzo-piano – 2.9

mezzo-soprano clef – 2.8

mi-modes – 11.2

middle C – 1.3

minor interval – 8.4

minor key – 6.3

minor key signatures – 6.4, 6.5

minor pentatonic – 11.8

Mixolydian – 11.1

modal transposition – 6.11

mode – 4.4, 11.1

• major mode – 4.4

• minor mode – 4.4, 6.1

moderato – 3.9

molto – 2.9

monophony – 10.5

mordent – 5.7

moveable C clef (or C clef) – 2.8

musical alphabet – 1.1

musical ornament – 5.7

musical staff – 1.3

musical texture – 10.5

natural minor scale – 6.2

natural sign – 2.2

neutral clef – 2.7

note – 1.1

note types – 1.2

• breve – 1.4

• eighth note – 1.2

• half note – 1.2

• quarter note – 1.2

• sixteenth note – 1.2

• sixty-fourth note – 1.4

• thirty-second note – 1.4

• whole note – 1.2

notehead – 1.2

octave – 1.1

octave designation – 1.7

octave sign – 1.7

offbeat – 7.1

ornament – 5.7

• appoggiatura – 5.7

• grace note – 5.7

• mordent – 5.7

• trill – 5.7

• turn – 5.7

ottava (8va) – 1.7

parallel keys – 6.8

• parallel major – 6.8

• parallel minor – 6.8

parts of a note – 1.2

• flag – 1.2

• notehead – 1.2

• stem – 1.2

pentatonic – 11.8

percussion clef – 2.7

perfect consonance – 9.8

perfect interval – 8.2

Phrygian – 11.1

pianissimo – 2.9

pianississimo – 2.9

piano – 2.9

pickup – 3.7

pitch – 1.1

poco – 2.9

poco a poco – 2.9

polymeter – 7.4

polyphony – 9.9

polyrhythm – 7.3

presto – 3.9

quadruplet – 7.3

quarter note – 1.2

quarter rest – 1.4

quindicesima (15ma) – 1.7

quintuplet – 7.3

range – 10.4

register – 10.4

relative keys – 6.4

• relative major – 6.4, 6.5

• relative minor – 6.4, 6.5

repeat sign – 5.8

rest – 1.1

rest types – 1.4

• breve rest – 1.4

• eighth rest – 1.4

• half rest – 1.4

• quarter rest – 1.4

• sixteenth rest – 1.4

• sixty-fourth rest – 1.4

• thirty-second rest – 1.4

• whole rest – 1.4

rhythm – 1.1

rhythm number system – 2.6

rhythm syllables – 2.6

rhythmic transposition – 3.8

ritardando – 3.9

scale – 2.5

• chromatic scale – 2.5

• diatonic scale – 4.1

• harmonic minor scale – 6.9

• major scale – 4.3

• melodic minor scale – 6.10

• natural minor scale – 6.2

scale degree name – 4.4, 6.7

• dominant – 4.4, 6.7

• leading tone – 4.4, 6.7, 6.9

• mediant – 4.4, 6.7

• subdominant – 4.4, 6.7

• submediant – 4.4, 6.7

• subtonic – 6.7, 6.9

• supertonic – 4.4, 6.7

• tonic – 4.4, 6.7

scale degree number – 4.4

septuplet – 7.3

sextuplet – 7.3

sforzando – 1.8

sharp – 2.2

simple interval – 9.2

simple meter – 3.1

sixteenth note – 1.2

sixteenth rest – 1.4

sixty-fourth note – 1.4

sixty-fourth rest – 1.4

slur – 1.8

soprano clef – 2.8

staccatissimo – 1.8

staccato – 1.8

staff – 1.3

stem – 1.2

subdivision – 2.6

subdominant – 4.4, 6.7

subito – 2.9

subito piano – 2.9

subject – 9.9

submediant – 4.4, 6.7

subtonic – 6.7, 6.9

supertonic – 4.4, 6.7

syncopation – 7.1

system – 1.3

tempo – 3.9

tempo marking – 3.9

• adagio – 3.9

• allegretto – 3.9

• allegro – 3.9

• andante – 3.9

• grave – 3.9

• largo – 3.9

• moderato – 3.9

• presto – 3.9

• vivace – 3.9

tendency tones – 9.7

tenor clef – 2.8

tenuto – 1.8

tessitura – 10.4

tetrachord – 4.1

texture – 10.5

thirty-second note – 1.4

thirty-second rest – 1.4

tie – 3.5

timbre – 10.5

time signature – 3.2

tonal center – 4.5

tonic – 4.4, 6.7

transposing instrument – 10.1

transposition – 3.8

• melodic transposition – 4.9

• modal transposition – 6.11

• rhythmic transposition – 3.8

treble clef – 1.3

trill – 5.7

triple-dotted notes/rests – 3.6

triplet – 7.2

tritone – 9.7

turn – 5.7

tuplet – 7.2

upbeat – 3.7

vivace – 3.9

white keys – 1.3

whole note – 1.2

whole rest – 1.4, 3.4

whole step – 2.1

written pitch – 10.1