Music GCSE
Related keys
What Related keys means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Related keys
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Keys such as the dominant, which shares most notes with the home key but shifts the centre of gravity, and the subdominant.
Topics that use Related keys
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Tonality (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Cadences and modulation
- Effect of omitting semitone steps
- Interval calculation
- Interval of a minor third
- Interval recognition
- Key signatures
- Major and minor patterns
- Major scale construction
Using Related keys in the exam
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