HARMONY

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DIATONIC
Using notes that belong to the current key.
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CHROMATIC
Using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
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CONSONANCE
A combination of notes that sound pleasant to most people when played at the same time.
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DISSONANCE
A combination of notes that sound harsh or unpleasant to most people.
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PASSING NOTE
A note that doesn't belong to the key signature, and that falls on a weak beat.
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AUXILIARY NOTE
The note which occurs when a melody moves by step away from a harmony note then back again.
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ACCIACCATURA
A very short ornamental note played just before the principal melodic note.
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APPOGIATURA
A nonharmonic grace note that resolves stepwise.
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SUSPENSION
A chord note that is held or repeated over a change in harmony to create a dissonance before moving to a note of the new chord.
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FALSE CADENCE
A deceptive cadence.
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PEDAL NOTE
A sustained or repeated note, usually in a low register, over which changing harmonies occur.
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DRONE
When a bass note is held throughout a passage of music.
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TIERCE DE PICARDIE
A major 3rd in the final chord of a passage in a minor key.
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LEADING NOTE
The seventh degree of a major or minor scale.
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MEDIANT
The third degree if a major or minor scale.
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NOTE OF ANTICIPATION
A melody note sounded slightly before the chord to which it belongs, creating dissonance with the current chord.
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Using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.

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CHROMATIC

Card 3

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A combination of notes that sound pleasant to most people when played at the same time.

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Card 4

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A combination of notes that sound harsh or unpleasant to most people.

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Card 5

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A note that doesn't belong to the key signature, and that falls on a weak beat.

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