1. AP Music Theory Chapter 2 – Part 3

2. Tonality Organized system of tones in which one tone (the TONIC) becomes the central point to which the other tones are related. Another word: tonal center.

3. Key Tonal system based on the major and minor scales. However, tonality can be present scales other than major and minor.

4. Pentatonic Scales 5-tone scale A gapped scale, one that contains intervals of more than a step between adjacent pitches. Incomplete major scale The sequence of black keys on the keyboard coincides with the interval relationship of the pentatonic scale.

5. Pentatonic Scales

6. Non-Diatonic Scales Chromatic Scale is a nondiatonic scale consisting entirely of half-step intervals. Has no tonic. Each note equidistant from the next.

7. CHROMATIC SCALE

8. WHOLE TONE SCALE Six-tone scale made up entirely of whole steps.

9. BLUES SCALE Chromatic variant of the major scale with a flat 3 rd and a flat 7 th.

10. Homework www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear- scale/xy6byyfgneb www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear- scale/xy6byyfgneb 20 minutes – print or email screen shots. Link is also posted on my AP Theory home page. Read pages of text 44-47.