Modal Scales Mixolydian, Lydian, Phrygian, Dorian, and Ionian
Scale the ladder of sound from any note to its octave .
Aeolian Mode A medieval mode whose scale pattern is that of playing A to A on the white keys of a piano. This scale is also called the natural minor scale.
Diatonic the seven note scale with its octave. The steps of a diatonic scale are not all the same size. The distance between B and C, and between E and F, is half the size of the other steps.
Dominant the fifth degree of any scale. The to and fro between tonic and dominant can be felt when singing a phrase such as the begining of 'God rest you merry, Gentleman'.
Glissando sliding quickly up or down a scale when playing a piano or harp
Locrian Mode A mode whose scale pattern is that of playing B to B on the white keys of a piano. While this mode theoretically existed in medieval times, it was never used.
Major Interval The interval between the keynote of a major scale and the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, or 7th of that scale.
Mode A scale pattern consisting of set intervals of whole and half steps. The primary modes are Aeolian, Dorian, Ionian, Locrian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Phrygian.
Sonata In the Baroque, the term 'sonata' was applied to a variety of works for solo instrument such as keyboard or violin, and for groups of instruments. In the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, the term sonata underwent a change in usage, coming to mean a chamber-music genre for either a solo instrument (usually a keyboard), or a solo melody instrument with piano. Increasingly after 1800, the term applied to a form of large-scale musical argument, and it was generally used in this sense in musicology and musical analysis.
