Key Signature Modulation Major and Minor Key Signatures Cadences Identifying the Tonality… Chords Root Note

Key Signature Modulation

The sharps or flats at the start of a Musical word for key change. Most piece of music, showing what key common changes: to Dominant or the music is in. (The chords and keys used in the music) relative Major/Minor.

Major and Minor Key Signatures Identifying The Tonality… Cadences

Tonal - In a major or Minor Key The last two chords in a phrase. Only sounds ‘complete’ if ends on chord I. Atonal - There is no sense of key Modal - Uses ‘old-fashioned’ scales called modes Sounds Complete Pentatonic - The music only uses 5 notes Perfect V I Cadence Dominant Tonic Chords

Triad - A chord with three notes (See below) Plagal IV I Cadence Subdominant Tonic Power Chord – Only playing the Root and Fifth of a

Sounds Incomplete triad (used in Rock music) *Can be other Dissonance - Clashing notes played together Imperfect I V Cadence Tonic Dominant Consonance - Notes that fit / sound nice together *Not chord I

Primary Chords - The three most commonly used Interrupted V Minor Chord chords used in music: I, IV, V Cadence Dominant

Secondary Chords - The other chords: II, III, VI, VII *Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in

Chord Sequence - The order the chords in a piece of a minor key ends with a major chord music follow (containing cadences at the ends of instead of the expected minor chord. This *When you write music in a minor key you also need to raise the 7th note phrases) effect is known as a Tierce de Picardie. (leading note) up one small step - e.g. A minor uses G#s, not Gs.

Diatonic Triad A Chord with three notes: Inversions Changing which note of a chord is the lowest sounding:

Music only uses notes that are found Root Position 1st Inversion 2nd Inversion in the key signature of the piece 5th

Chromatic rd Music uses the notes found in the 3 key of the piece but also adds in rd th Root Note The root note The 3 The 5 extra accidentals (# / b) is lowest is lowest is lowest