Unit 1 & 2
Two notes with the same pitch but different letter names.
What is an Enharmonic Equivalent?
Chords built from three pitches (most oGen two thirds stacked on top of each other)
What is a Triad?
A NCT that is approached by step and resolved by step in the opposite direction, usually rhythmically unaccented, decorates a repeated note.
What is a Neighbor Tone?
A non-diatonic chord used to tonicize a target note a perfect fiGh below its root, marked V/X or V7/X where x is the diatonic target chord (ex. In C major, D is V/V, B7 is V7/iii, E is V/vi, etc.)
What is a Secondary Dominant?
A note that naturally receives more emphasis due to its extended duration.
What is an Agogic Accent?
A hexatonic (6-tone) scale using all whole steps.
What is a Whole Tone Scale?
Inversion hotline.
What is 664-765-4342.
A NCT approached by same tone and resolved by step downward, rhythmically accented.
What is a Suspension?
A diminished triad or half or fully diminished seventh chord used to tonicize a target note one half step above its root, marked vii°7/X or vii°/X where x is the diatonic target chord (ex. In G major, vii°/ii is G#°, vii°7/IV is Bdim, vii°/vi D#°).
What is a Secondary Leading Tone?
Occurs when compound divisions (3 per beat) substitute for division values in simple meter (2 per beat) and vice versa.
What are Borrowed Divisions?
One main melody that is support by other musical line(s) that provide harmony.
What is Homophony/homophonic?
V-I or V-i, both root position, I or i has tonic in soprano.
What is a Perfect Authentic Cadence (PAC)
Using only a portion of a motif.
What is Fragmentation?
First phrase of a period, ends on an inconclusive cadence.
What is an Antecedent?
A shorthand way of writing out a piece of music using melody on a staff, chord symbols, and lyrics, common to pop and jazz, often one page in length and very sparse to allow for arrangement flexibility or improvisation during performance.
What is a Lead Sheet?
A secondary melody that plays simultaneously to the main melody, adding richness and complexity to the musical texture.
What is a Countermelody?
A sequence in which a dominant chord does not lead to the tonic, most often V-vi.
What is Deceptive Progression?
Help orient to the key and prepare for the dominant, most common are ii7 and iidim7, IV7 is very uncommon
What is a Pre Dominant 7th Chord?
Natural minor with a #6, curious and whimsical, brighter version of minor.
What is Dorian?
A phrase line or group of lines that is repeated at intervals throughout a poem or song, often serving as a memorable and unifying element.
What is a Refrain?
Baroque accompaniment style involving chordal (often improvised) part over a written bassline, often using figured bass.
What is Basso Continuo?
A major tonic chord that ends a section in a minor key.
What is a Picardy Third?
A system for building chord progressions based on harmonic function to create a journey from tension to release, tonic orients, predominant prepares, dominant creates tension, tonic resolves, labelled T-PD-D-T.
What is a Tonic-Predominant-Dominant-Tonic Harmonic Progression?
The use of harmony to momentarily make a new note feel like “home base” without fully moving into a new key area, creating of a temporary tonic, this requires accidentals.
What is Tonicization?
The most comfortable register for a given instrument or voice.
What is Tessitura?