Doesn't play well with others
Perfect harmony
I'll tell you where you can go
Part Writing 101
Miscellaneous
100
The most common example of a non-harmonic tone or non-chord tone.
What is the passing tone? What is the unaccented passing tone?
100
The "Simpsons" interval....also heard about Maria in "Westside Story"
What is the tritone? What is an Augmented 4th? What is a diminished 5th?
100
vii must go here
What is to the tonic? What is to I or i?
100
The neopolitan chord almost always appears in this inversion.
What is 1st inversion?
100
Of Phillip Glass or Bela Bartok, the one most likely to use Pan-triadic technique.
Who is Bartok?
200
G can't be a non-harmonic tone in a c minor chord because of this.
What is...IT IS PART OF THE CHORD?
200
These two intervals create parallel problems in chorale writing.
What are P5 and P8? What are perfect 5ths and perfect octaves?
200
This chord must be involved in a HALF CADENCE.
What is V? What is v?
200
The voice which can leap larger than a P4.
What is the bass?
200
Use this conducting pattern if you're faced with 6/8 time and a very fast tempo.
What is a "2" pattern? What is a 2/4 pattern? (fish hook or sideways figure 8)
300
approached by a step and resolves by a step in the same direction.
What is a passing tone?
300
In order to prevent other part-writing errors you may omit this note from a root-position MAJOR chord.
What is the 5th of the chord?
300
Of subdominant or submedient, the one which ends a Deceptive cadence.
What is submedient?
300
When moving from chord to chord try to KEEP this... "The _________ _______" When one voice can retain the same note as it moves to the next chord.
What is COMMON TONE?
300
It's the leading tone note in C# Major....or minor, actually.
What is B#?
400
Of SUSPENSION or PASSING TONE....the one which can not be accented.
What is suspension?
400
Of MILD or STRONG, A polychord containing a C#Major chord and a D Major chord creates this kind of dissonance.
What is STRONG?
400
It can go anywhere and any chord can go to it.
What is I or i? What is tonic?
400
Double this in a second inversion chord.
What is the SOPRANO or BASS?
400
He premiered the first example of electronic music at the World's Fair in 1958.
Who was Edgar Varese?
500
To determine the type of suspension (4-3, 6-5) count up the interval from this note.
What is the bass?
500
Composers of the common practice period wrote harmony based on the chorales of this composer.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
500
Of the rules of root movement, the one thats missing from this list 1. up a 2nd 2. down a 5th
What is down a 3rd?
500
vi moving to V is generally a bad idea because of this.
What is the rule of RETROGRESSION?
500
The motivic development technique in which the original motive is performed backwards and with the interval direction reversed.
What is RETROGRADE INVERSION?
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