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Main Ideas
This page will continue to be updated after every new lesson to include the bolded concepts in one place. Please let me know if anything is unclear. Lesson 1: Form: the large scale way a piece of music is put together. Formal Analysis describes various sections for a piece of music, and how they interrelate.…
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Lesson 5: Diatonic Substitute functions, beginning prolongation
Remember last week the chord P6? In context of C major and a given piece, this sonority is Predominant, but has a sixth above the fa in the bass, instead of a fifth. In a different context, these notes (re fa la) might have a different function. That is one of the most important things…
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Lesson 4: Numbers
(We’re going to be in C major all day today.) Back in lesson 2 we talked about triads. We defined a triad as being a chord made of three notes, each a third apart. Because of octave equivalence, triads can look like many things. Here’s what the close-packed version looks like: But all these are…
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motivation deficit
We had a ton of snow here in the last couple weeks (very unusual, city and citizens generally not prepared for such weather), so I was stuck inside for 5 days at least. Instead of translating into awesome writing time, this has delayed responses from schools (because campuses are closed thru the region), and cabin…
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Lesson 3: Predominants and Subdominants
ok, let’s talk about minor. Listen to the first 15 seconds of these two recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB9INrprn0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvRWFD_1_M The first recording is the first movement (“Prelude”) from JS Bach’s Partita no 3 in E major, and the second is the fifth movement (“Chaconne”) from Bach’s Partita no 2 in D minor, both for unaccompanied Violin. While…