Extras – 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

Sequences (week 7 extra)

With the topic of LIPs (week 7), sequences are useful discussion. There are 2 main types: melodic and harmonic. A melodic sequence is a chunk of music or motive repeated, but most/all the notes transposed up or down a consistent interval. Sequences are often used in developmental or transitional passages, and can also be embellished…

Dr.Kit

2014/02/21

Extras

Extras from week 3

Here’s the analysis of the Bach Chaccone we did today, plus a couple extra phrases. You can see how the functions stay stable but have variations in the details. chaccone for wordpress Here’s another practice worksheet for identifying and spelling some of the chords. practice with inversions

Dr.Kit

2014/01/23

Extras

Primary and Secondary Functions: minor (week 2)

Here is a visual explanation of secondary functions (week 2) in minor. A notated explanation of secondary functions.

Dr.Kit

2014/01/17

Extras

Primary and Secondary Functions: Major (week 2)

Here is a visual explanation of secondary functions (week 2) in major. A notated explanation of secondary functions.

Dr.Kit

2014/01/17

Extras

Graphic of chord relations (week 2)

As requested this morning, here’s a color version of the chart I made on the board today. Red are chords in C major, green are chords in C’s relative minor – a minor, and blue are the parallel, c minor. Other theorists often call this a Tonnetz (German for “web of tones”) if you want…

Dr.Kit

2014/01/14

Extras