Music Theory

The structure of music: pitch, harmony, rhythm, and form.

Parent category: Music

Articles (3)

• Major and Minor Scales
  The diatonic scale patterns underlying Western tonality: the arrangement of whole and half steps that defines major and minor keys.
• The Circle of Fifths
  The twelve-note arrangement that shows key signatures, relative keys, and the harmonic relationships composers use to move between keys.
• Time Signatures and Meter
  How music marks time: beats grouped into measures, simple and compound meters, and the time signatures that encode them.

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