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Key Center

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Theory

A key center organizes harmonic tension and release around a tonic. Identifying key center helps performers shape phrasing, c…

Key signature

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an arrangement of sharps or flats placed on the far left hand side of each line of the staff, indicating scale of the piece S…

Heptatonic scale

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a scale of seven notes

Diatonic scale

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any scale of the major, natural minor, melodic minor or harmonic minor scales based on a particular key note

Changing notes

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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…

Diatonic

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notes that occur naturally in a scale, without being modified by accidentals other than those in the relevant key signature

Minor Scale

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having the interval of a minor third between the first and third degrees of the scale See Table of Key Signatures See Table o…

Remote keys

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the relationship between keys that have relatively few notes in common, for example, the key of C and the key of F sharp