Download Name: Nyocca Anderson Teacher: Mrs Chavannes Date: May 18

Name: Nyocca Anderson
Teacher: Mrs Chavannes
Date: May 18, 2016
In Music a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. It
is a group of 8 notes arranged in a particular order. A scale gets its name from the first note.
There are different types of scales. One of which is the Major Scale.The Major Scale is very
important for us to understand because we will use it as the basic element in understanding all
scales, intervals and chords.Major scale is one of the most commonly used musical scales and it
has 8 tones (each of the 8 tones in a scale is called a degree) which is called an octave. The 1st
and 8th tones have the same name example:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
C
D
E
F
G
A
B
C
In every major scale, there are half steps and whole steps. Half Steps are called semitones and it
occur between 3rd & 4th and 7th & 8th and Whole steps are called tones and it occur between 1-2,
2-3, 4-5, 5-6,6-7 tones.
The sequence of intervals between the notes of a major scale is:
Whole Step, Whole Step, Half Step, Whole Step, Whole Step, Whole Step, Half Steps
Example of Major Scale
An accidental is a note of a pitch that is not a member of the scale or mode indicated by
the most recently applied key signature. Accidentals are placed immediately in front of the note
they will affect. In musical notation, the sharp (♯), flat (♭), and natural (♮) symbols, among
others, mark accidental notes. An accidental sign raises or lowers the immediately following note
(and any repetition of it in the bar) from its normal pitch, overriding sharps or flats (or their
absence) in the key signature. A note is usually raised or lowered by a semitone accidental signs.
Accidentals apply within the measure and octave in which they appear, unless canceled by
another accidental sign, or tied into a following measure. If a note has an accidental and the note
is repeated in a different octave within the same measure, the accidental does not apply to the
same note of the different octave.
The three principal symbols indicating whether a note should be raised or lowered in
pitch are derived from variations of the small letter b: the sharp (♯), flat (♭), and natural (♮) symbols.