Announcements

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Announcements

• Mini-Homework 12 due Friday
• Turn this one in to your AI
• Quiz 4 Wednesday
• Roman Numerals and Figured Bass Symbols Spell
  and ID

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Non-Chord Tones

• Two Primary Types
• Passing Tone (PT)
• Used to fill space between chord members, usually
  space of a third or fourth
• Neighbor Tone (NT)
• Used to embellish a single or repeated chord-tone
• May appear above or below the embellished tone

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Non-Chord Tones

• Consider the following example
• Embellish this example with 1 PT and 1 NT
• Rewrite notes to rhythmically reflect the added
  NCT
• This exercise similar to Mini-HW 12

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Non-Chord Tones

• Step 1 identify likely places for each type of
  NCT
• Passing tones fill the space between two
  chord-tones, so find a place where there are two
  (different) adjacent chord-tones

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Non-Chord Tones

• Step 1 identify likely places for each type of
  NCT
• Neighbor tones embellish a single or repeated
  pitch, so find a place where a single chord-tone
  is repeated on consecutive beats

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Non-Chord Tones

• Step 2 add requested non-chord tones, rewriting
  the melody to rhythmically reflect the added
  notes
• NCTs typically appear on weaker parts of the
  beat
• Circle and label added NCTs

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Cadences

• The term cadence refers to a melodic or harmonic
  pattern that creates a sense of repose or
  resolution.
• Cadences come at the end of phrases in music (at
  the end of a piece, and usually in the middle at
  some point)
• Cadences are defined by their harmonic patterns

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Cadences
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Cadences

• Furthermore, there are two types of Authentic
  cadences, which we label perfect and imperfect
• Perfect Authentic Cadence (PAC) the progression
  V (or V7) ? I, with both chords in root-position,
  and scale-degree 1 in the melody (upper voice)
  over the tonic chord
• Imperfect Authentic Cadence (IAC) any authentic
  cadence that is not perfect
• Scale-degree 1 is not in the melody over the
  tonic triad
• Either V or I are not in root position
• The progression viio ? I

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Cadences

• For the purposes of this class, we will use the
  following abbreviations
• PAC (perfect authentic cadence)
• IAC (imperfect authentic cadence)
• PC (plagal cadence)
• HC (half cadence
• DC (deceptive cadence)

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Aural Skills Unit Three

• Rhythmic dictations involving syncopation and
  borrowed rhythms
• Syncopation a momentary contradiction of the
  prevailing meter or time signature, resulting in
  the emphasis on the wrong part of the beat
• Borrowed rhythms in simple or compound meter, a
  single-beat rhythmic cell which commonly appears
  in other category
• Commonly referred to as triplets or duplets

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Aural Skills Unit Three

• Syncopation
• Borrowed Rhythms

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Project 2 (Melodic Composition)

• Due Monday, November 18
• Rough draft due Wednesday, November 13
• Description in course packet, p. 85
• Two melodies, four measures each
• Melody 1 E Major, 3 / 4, treble clef
• Melody 2 G Minor, 6 / 8, bass clef
• Outline chords (I ? ii ? V (7) ? I), one per
  measure, then embellish with Non-chord tones

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Announcements

• Mini-Homework 12 due Friday
• Turn this one in to your AI
• Quiz 4 Wednesday
• Roman Numerals and Figured Bass Symbols Spell
  and ID
• Project 2 (Melodic Composition) due Monday,
  November 18
• Rough draft due Wednesday, November 13