Module 2 mini-test

Try before reading the answers.

1. What is the major-scale interval formula?

2. What notes are in G major?

3. What notes are in D major?

4. What is scale degree 5 in G major?

5. What is scale degree 7 in D major?

6. Which three types of chord appear on I, ii, and vii° in every major key?

7. What are the diatonic chords in C major?

8. Transpose C-Am-F-G to G major using Roman numerals.

9. If a key signature has F♯, C♯, and G♯, what major key is it?

10. What does V → I mean in C? In G?

Answers

1. whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half
2. G A B C D E F♯
3. D E F♯ G A B C♯
4. D
5. C♯
6. I = major, ii = minor, vii° = diminished
7. C Dm Em F G Am B°
8. C-Am-F-G = I-vi-IV-V → G-Em-C-D
9. A major
10. C: G → C; G: D → G

The key thing to carry into Module 3 is this:

A key is a reusable system of scale degrees and chord functions.

Next we'll look at minor keys, and that is where some very interesting things happen: natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, why the seventh degree gets altered, and why a minor-key dominant often contains a note that technically doesn't belong to the natural minor scale.