Year 12 · SACE / Music Studies
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Music Studies
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- What distinguishes simple time from compound time?
- What does the time signature 6/8 mean?
- How do you hear the difference between 3/4 and 6/8 when both contain six quavers?
- What is 9/8?
- What is an irregular (asymmetric) meter? Give two examples.
- What does 2/2 (cut common time) mean?
- What is the main rule of beaming?
- How are quavers beamed in 3/4?
- How are quavers beamed in 6/8?
- What does it mean for rests to "show the beat"?
- In 4/4, where can a minim rest start?
- How is a whole bar of silence written in any time signature?
- In 6/8, how is a full beat of silence written?
- List the note values from semibreve to semiquaver with their length in crotchet beats.
- What does a dot do to a note?
- What is a tie and how is it different from a slur?
- What is a quaver triplet?
- What is a duplet in 6/8?
- What is the first step in rhythmic dictation?
- Why must you count the beats in every bar of a dictation?
- How do you notate a note that sounds across a bar line?
- How can you tell a quaver triplet from a dotted quaver + semiquaver by ear?
- Give the semitone formula for the four triad qualities.
- How does an augmented triad sound?
- How does a diminished triad sound?
- Spell the four triads on D.
- What are root position, first inversion and second inversion?
- List the six seventh-chord qualities in the course with their structure.
- How do you tell a half-diminished 7th from a fully diminished 7th?
- Spell a dominant 7th on A.
- Spell Cmaj7, C7, Cm7, Cm7b5 and Cdim7.
- What is an augmented 7th chord (7#5)? Spell it on G.
- What is a broken chord?
- In a broken-chord question, what must you check before writing the notes?
- Name the broken chord F#, A, C, E.
- What is the tone/semitone pattern of the major scale?
- How do the three forms of the minor scale differ?
- Spell A harmonic minor.
- Spell E melodic minor ascending and descending.
- What interval gives the harmonic minor its distinctive sound?
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