Background materials – Dr. Kit Music

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.…

Dr.Kit

2017/01/25

Background materials, Extras, lessons

Dissertation Diary 2016-04-14

This week I worked on detail edits and formatting. I think the front pages are right! I still can’t figure out how to do sharps and flats properly, but I think every thing else I flagged for details is close. Still waiting for some ILL sources before I do the details on citations. Don’t know…

Dr.Kit

2016/04/14

Background materials, Dissertation

Review Items

Here are some terms and concepts that we will refer to. Cadences: PAC – Perfect Authentic Cadence. Dominant moving to Tonic. Stereotypical end of a tonal piece. So-do in the bass, do in the soprano IAC – Imperfect Authentic Cadence. Dominant moving to Tonic. Destabilized version of PAC, either because of inversion, pitch in the…

Dr.Kit

2014/01/07

Background materials

Definitions

Hopefully this will condense somethings that new/less experienced musicians would like to know. The later definitions will be explained thru the course and worked with in assignments. Words in a definition that reference other definitions are italicized. Common Practice Period – era of Western Music from the Baroque through the early 20th century. Triad –…

Dr.Kit

2013/11/25

Background materials