Day 7: The Minor Scales (Assessment)

Question 1: What is the minor pentachord?

Question 2: Which scale degrees on the natural minor scale should you lower/raise to make it a harmonic minor scale?

Question 3: Which scale degrees on the natural minor scale should you lower/raise to make it an ascending melodic minor scale?

Question 4: Construct all three G minor scales, as well as G minor's relative and parallel major scales.

Question 5: Listen to the audio file below. Which of the following was sounded?

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B.
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D.

Question 6: Fill in the blanks in this table.

Question 7: Go to the site linked here. Try to get a 15/15 or better.


Explanations are included in some answers.

Answer 1: W H W W
Answer 2: You need to raise the seventh. For example, A natural minor (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A) becomes A, B, C, D, E, F, G#, A.
Answer 3: You need to raise the sixth and the seventh. For example, A natural minor (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A) becomes A, B, C, D, E, F#, G#, A.
Answer 4: G natural minor: G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G. G harmonic minor: G, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F#, G. G melodic minor: (ascending) G, A, Bb, C, D, E, F#, G, (descending) G, F, Eb, D, C, Bb, A, G.
Answer 5: B
Answer 6: