🎶AP Music Theory
Key Terms
201 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Music Theory exam
Key Terms by Unit
1.1 Pitch and Pitch Notation
1.2 Rhythmic Values
1.3 Half Steps and Whole Steps
1.4 Major Scales and Scale Degrees
1.5 Major Keys and Key Signatures
1.6 Simple and Compound Beat Division
1.7 Meter and Time Signature
1.8 Rhythmic Patterns
1.9 Tempo
1.10 Dynamics and Articulation
2.1 Minor Scales
2.2 Relative Keys
2.3 Key Relationships
2.4 Other Scales
2.5 Interval Size and Quality
2.6 Interval Inversion and Compound Intervals
2.7 Transposing Instruments
2.8 Timbre
2.9 Melodic Features
2.10 Melodic Transposition
2.11 Texture and Texture Types
2.12 Texture Devices
2.13 Rhythmic Devices
3.1 Triad and Chord Qualities (M, m, d, A)
3.2 Diatonic Chords and Roman Numerals
3.3 Chord Inversions and Figures
3.4 Seventh Chords
3.5 Seventh Chord Inversions and Figures
4.1 Harmony and Voice Leading I
4.2 SATB Voice Leading
4.3 Harmonic Progression, Functional Harmony, and Cadences
4.4 Voice Leading with Seventh Chords
4.5 Voice Leading with Seventh Chords in Inversions
5.1 Adding Predominant Function IV (iv) and ii (ii0) to a Melodic Phrase
5.2 The vi (VI) Chord
5.3 Predominant Seventh Chords
5.4 The iii (III) Chord
5.5 Cadences and Predominant Function
5.6 Cadential 6/4 Chords
5.7 Additional 6/4 chords
Motive and Motivic Transformation
Embellishing Tones
Harmonic Sequences
Melodic Sequences
Part Writing of Secondary Leading Tone Chords
Part Writing of Secondary Dominant Chords
Tonicization through Secondary Dominant Chords
Tonicization through Secondary Leading Tone Chords
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