MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Key Signature, Supertonic, Submediant
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Key signature tells which sharps or flats will last through the whole song. Only sharps or flats used in each one. Whole step whole step half step whole step whole step whole step half step. Diatonic collection combination of key signature and scale. Notes of a scale (scale degree) music based on the key wants to return to). Tonic - t (or key note, the note the key is named after and the note the piece of. Supertonic - st (remember it as the note just after the tonic) Mediant - m (two notes up from the tonic) Subdominant - sd (the note just before the dominant) Dominant - d (the fifth note of the scale) Submediant - sm (two notes down from the tonic) Leading note - ln (feels like it wants to resolve to the tonic) If the tonal center (=tonic or key note) is c, the piece is in the key of c major.
