IB Music-HARMONY

Singing with no instrumental accompaniment

• Monophony
• Virtuoso
• A Capella
• Prima Donna

A classical form of harmony usually used in piano playing. It uses arpeggios/broken chords to harmonize the melody.

• Stride
• Jump Bass
• Figured Bass
• Alberti Bass

Music that is centered around no central key or scale. The term was first used to describe certain compositions by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern, and Alban Berg. Schoenberg's term was pantonal.

• Diatonic
• Atonal
• Disjunct
• Augmented

The resolution of a dissonance, producing a stable or restful sound

• Consequence
• Antecedent
• Consonance
• Cadence

Notes played within the key signature or staying true to the scale they are written in.

• Chromatic
• Atonal
• Pantonal
• Diatonic

The fifth tone of a scale

• Pentatonic
• Leading Tone
• Root
• Dominant

A single sustained tone / note.

• Drone
• Clone
• Ostinato
• Whole Note

The bass part generally of a Baroque composition that is marked so as to indicate the harmonies that should go with each note.

• Basso Harmonica
• Figured Bass
• Lead Sheet
• Counterpoint

A chord progression where the dominant (V) chord is the final chord of the cadence.

• Authentic
• Plagal
• Half
• Deceptive

A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by a chord other than the tonic chord, usually the sixth chord or superdominant chord or submediant chord (V-VI)

• Authentic
• Plagal
• Half
• Deceptive