Music Theory Quiz 1

What lowers a pitch by one half-step?

What is the term for pitches that sound the same but are spelled with different names?

What term describes the physical length of a sound wave?

Which pattern of notes is NOT spelled diatonically?

What term describes the difference in pitch between two sounds?

What is the term for 3 or more notes that sound together simultaneously?

What is it when you change music from one set of pitches to a different set of pitches?

What cancels or undoes an accidental?

What term describes the highness or lowness of a sound?

What pattern of notes combines two tetrachords with a whole-step between them?

What is the smallest interval of sound used in Western Music?

What is the term for a chord that is spelled out in a melodic sequence?

Which pattern of notes is spelled only using whole-steps?

Which term means that a pattern of notes is spelled with sequential letter names?

What physical property of a sound wave does our brain interpret as the pitch of the sound?

Which pattern of notes is spelled with a sequence of whole-step, whole-step, half-step?

Which pattern of notes is spelled only using half-steps?

What raises a pitch by one half-step?

What is the term for 2 notes that sound one after the other in sequence?

What is the term for 2 notes that sound simultaneously?