Music Definitions & Terminologies # 5

Here are another set of the basic music definitions and terminologies as a part of your 5th session:

1. Circle of fifths - The succession of keys or chords proceeding by fifths.
2. Classical Music – Music belonging to a certain class, form or structure. Belonging to late 18th and early 19th century.
3. Common time – It represents 4/4 meter.
4. Cut time – It represents 2/2 meter.
5. Degree – Degree is one of the eight consecutive tones in a scale. Each note is a degree in a major or minor scale.
6. Dominant - The fifth degree of the major or minor scale.
7. Double bar - Two vertical lines placed on the staff to indicate the end of a section or a composition. It is also used with two dots to enclose repeated sections.
8. Eighth – It is the eighth degree known as Octave.