Theory Rocks
Across
- 3. An alternate passage of music.
- 5. A diminutive coda.
- 7. What someone from the UK might call a quarter note.
- 11. iv, bVI, or iidim in a major key.
- 12. The "elemental" form upon which the Sonata Allegro is built.
- 16. Half way between the tonic and dominant.
- 18. Schoenberg explored this unusual vocal technique in Pierrot Lunaire.
- 20. Comes after the development section in a Sonata Allegro.
- 23. Another word for a diminished scale.
- 26. B7#11 for F7alt, for example (two words).
- 28. String players and brass players use them.
- 31. A type of continuous variation similar to a passacaglia.
- 33. A word that describes the function of N6 and Aug. 6th chords.
- 34. The sound source of an analog synthesizer.
- 36. Dr. Strauch would play one if he lived in the Renaissance.
- 37. French vocalists sing a lot of them.
- 39. V7-vi
- 40. Steve Reich, Steve Reich, Steve Reich, Steve Reich, Steve Reich
- 43. The interval that splits an octave
- 44. ABACA is one example.
- 45. Stacked fifths.
- 47. You will likely hear this mode if you go to a movie.
- 48. Bessie Smith is well known for singing it.
Down
- 1. The black notes on a piano.
- 2. A slow dance in triple time.
- 4. The seventh note of a Mixolydian scale, for example.
- 6. Ella Fitzgerald never "stepped in it" when she sang these solos.
- 8. A term often associated with the contrasting section of a popular song.
- 9. A structural function you are likely to find at the end of a composition.
- 10. A fancy word for a wonky violin tuning.
- 13. This augmented sixth chord only has three chord factors.
- 14. A nonharmonic that is preceded by a preparation and followed by a resolution.
- 15. V7/V (two words).
- 17. The first section of a Sonata Allegro movement.
- 19. A colloquial term for a custom synthetic sound.
- 21. When a string player or singer slides between notes.
- 22. This seventh chord can easily resolve to four tonal centers.
- 24. Another word that might be used to describe a secundal chord.
- 25. An eighth note to someone from London
- 27. Half way between the tonic and subdominant.
- 29. A common contrapuntal motion.
- 30. A “crazy” modality.
- 32. This augmented sixth chord contains two tritones.
- 35. You would expect to hear a subject and answer in one of these.
- 38. B/Bb, for example.
- 41. A vigorous or playful composition.
- 42. An elemental form with three sections.
- 46. IV-I
- 47. You might use this synthesizer component to make a siren.