1 / 10

AP Music Theory

AP Music Theory. Chapter 2 – Part 3. Tonality. Organized system of tones in which one tone (the TONIC) becomes the central point to which the other tones are related. Another word: tonal center. Key. Tonal system based on the major and minor scales.

idalee
Download Presentation

AP Music Theory

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. AP Music Theory Chapter 2 – Part 3

  2. Tonality • Organized system of tones in which one tone (the TONIC) becomes the central point to which the other tones are related. • Another word: tonal center.

  3. Key • Tonal system based on the major and minor scales. • However, tonality can be present scales other than major and minor.

  4. Pentatonic Scales • 5-tone scale • A gapped scale, one that contains intervals of more than a step between adjacent pitches. • Incomplete major scale • The sequence of black keys on the keyboard coincides with the interval relationship of the pentatonic scale.

  5. Pentatonic Scales

  6. Non-Diatonic Scales • Chromatic Scale is a nondiatonic scale consisting entirely of half-step intervals. • Has no tonic. Each note equidistant from the next.

  7. CHROMATIC SCALE

  8. WHOLE TONE SCALE • Six-tone scale made up entirely of whole steps.

  9. BLUES SCALE • Chromatic variant of the major scale with a flat 3rd and a flat 7th.

  10. Homework • www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-scale/xy6byyfgneb • 20 minutes – print or email screen shots. Link is also posted on my AP Theory home page. • Read pages of text 44-47.

More Related