Current Answer Source: Jeff Evans
2: Cambiata in 3rd species. Keywords: Counterpoint
3: The Neapolitan chord. Keywords: harmony, altered chords
4: When to beam notes. Keywords: notation, beaming
5: Hearing the difference between 2/2 and 4/4, etc. Keywords: meter, beat
6: Slur combined with staccato?? Keywords: articulation
7: What's a tritone?? Keywords: intervals, counterpoint
8: Modulation vs. key change. Keywords: harmony
9: Why no B# or E# in the scale? Keywords: diatonic, chromatic
10: Are there any easier-to-learn forms of music notation? Keywords: staff, shape notes, solfege
11: Can you elaborate on the use of rhythm in Bartok's Mikrokosmos no. 148? Keywords: Bulgarian rhythm
12: What is a cadence? Keywords: harmony, phrase
13: What is cambiata? Keywords: counterpoint
14: A mysterious pair of notes - half notes beamed together? Keywords: bowed tremolo, notation
15: What does "plena voce" mean? Keywords: performance instructions
16: Please explain the circle of fifths. Keywords: intervals, key signature
17: Please explain "The Dominant Triads." Keywords: harmony
18: What is the difference between a parallel minor and a relative minor? Keywords: key signature
19: How do you recognize an interval? Keywords: ear training, notation
20: What is the difference between a chord in major and a chord in minor? Keywords: harmony, triad
21: What is a closed Chord? Keywords: chord voicing, chord position
22: What are the hand signs for solfege? Keywords: diatonic, scale
23: How do you tell which notes in a melody determine the chords? Keywords: harmonize, harmony
24: How to analyze the chord E D A B E? Keywords: harmonic analysis
25: What is the meaning of numbers 6/5, 4/3, 4/2, etc.? Keywords: figured bass, thoroughbass, harmonic analysis
26: Can you tell me how leading tones work? Keywords: counterpoint, harmony, scale
27: Please explain the terms "ostinato" and "drone." Keywords: composition
28: Should E# be played on the F# key if F# is in the key signature? Keywords: enharmonics, key signature, accidentals
29: Repeat bars within a measure Keywords: meter, pickup note, barline, repeat
30: Spelling a given scale in Sol-Fa Keywords: Solfege, scale, Fixed-Do, Moveable-Do
31: Why do most musical scales start on C? Keywords: Scale, Key
32: Should I take music theory? Why do orchestra parts keep changing clef? Why are the instruments in different keys? Keywords: Music Theory, Transposing instruments, Range, Clef
33: Could you please give me information about rests in music theory? Keywords: Rests, rhythm, notation
34: How would one play a piano chord with a book notation of G/B? Keywords: Chords, harmony, chord inversion
35: Where do the 5 tones with hand symbols in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" come from? Keywords: Solfege, Curwen, partial series, scale
36: How do you notate a 16th-8th-16th note combination on one beam? Keywords: Beaming, rhythm, meter, notation
37: What is a sixth chord? Keywords: harmony, sixth chord
38: What is an Italian sixth? Keywords: harmony, augmented sixth chord, French Augmented Sixth, German Augmented Sixth, Italian Augmented Sixth
39: What are the rules for writing a round? Keywords: counterpoint, circular canon, round
40: A jazz piece is marked with sextuplets but looks like 12/8 - Is this correct? Keywords: meter, jazz, swing
41: In tonal music, Why would it be wrong to leave unresolved 7ths or unresolved suspensions? Keywords: harmony, counterpoint, partials, harmonics, dissonance
42: What does "fp" (forte/piano) mean when under the same note? For instance in a measure with 8th-4th-8th note with fp under the quarter what dynamic should be used? Keywords: dynamics, performance instructions, performance practice
43: What syllables make up the supertonic triad? Keywords: scale degrees, triads, harmony
44: How do I count rests in my head? Keywords: rhythm, counting, simple, compound, rests, meter
45: Are there good interval hints to keep in mind when trying to distinguish between tones? Keywords: intervals, ear training
46: What is a bFlat7 *5*9 chord?? Keywords: chords, jazz chords, diminished chords
47: Is the division of the octave into 12 tones based on anything other than convention? Keywords: scales, steps, acoustics, keyboard
48: How do you know the difference between a major and minor interval? Keywords: intervals, major, minor
49: What mark is used to indicate a slurred note? Keywords: articulation, slurs, ties, phrase marks
50: What scale do these chords represent? Keywords: keys, minor keys, diminished chords, altered chords, dominant chords
51: What is a Cambiata voice as pertains to a boy soprano voice? Keywords: singing, tessitura, vocal range, cambiata
52: When playing in 5/4 time which beat gets the emphasis? Keywords: meter, metric accent
53: If an ornament has an accidental before it does it apply to the main notes if in the same bar? Keywords: accidentals, ornaments, turn, trill
54: Why is the sixth considered consonant, but the second is not? Keywords: tuning, temperament, overtones, partials, musical acoustics
55: Can you describe what is meant by "essential tones" in counterpoint? Keywords: essential tones, tonal counterpoint, voice-leading, dissonance
56: How can I write a chord progression in the Phrygian mode? Keywords: modal harmony, modes, Phrygian, Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Lydian, modal chords
57: Can you resolve a dispute between my daughter's teacher and her Theory Book about tying notes across the center of a 4/4 measure? Keywords: Ties, beams, metric division
58: Why is the vii dim 7 important in minor keys? Keywords: dissonance resolution, half steps, seventh chords
59: What are the scales in which the interval of (f-b)or (fa si) is augmented? Keywords: scales, modes, augmented fourth, diminished fifth, moveable Do, fixed Do
60: How should I count the eighth notes in the Moonlight Sonata? One-and-two-and doesn't seem to do it. Keywords: meter, triplets, cut time, counting rhythm
61: When can I use the chord IIb in harmony? Keywords: harmony, Neapolitan chord, altered chords
62: What chords make a 6-5 suspension in C minor if the bass is a b natural? Keywords: harmony, figured bass, diminished seventh, suspension, voice-leading, non-chordal tones
63: Does the Grand Staff arise from an older 10 line staff that was split in two? Keywords: Guido of Arezzo, conductus, chant, history of notation.
64: What is the meaning of major and minor in music? Keywords: Intervals, affect, scales, tonic triad.
65: Why doesn't 'Do, Re, Mi' start on the note A? Keywords: Guido, solfege, scales, Odo of Cluny, Ut Queant Laxis.
66: What should I call the chord E-Bb-Db-G#? Keywords: chords, enharmonic equivalents, diminished seventh chord.
67: The singer I'm accompanying wants everything in the key of Asia Minor -? Keywords: What keywords?
68: If an E major chord appears in a G major piece, has the music changed key? Keywords:Harmony, modulation, secondary dominants
69: What is this mysterious scale with a lowered 7th degree? Keywords:Modes, scales
70: I see an F natural in G major. Did the chord change? Keywords:Modulation, secondary dominants, harmony
71: What's the difference between a contemporary pedagogical composer and a non-pedagogical composer? Keywords: Bartok, Chopin, Bach, Kabalevsky, Shostakovich, Schumann
72: Why are some chord progressions "stronger" than others? Keywords:Harmonics, harmony, root progression, leading tones
73: When/why did the repeat become such an integral part of music? Keywords:Form, sonata, variation, through-composed