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Melody |
Definition and composition of a melody as a succession of neighbour or distant notes |
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The melodic motion |
The ascending, descending and horizontal melodic motions |
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The chords |
How to build a 2, 3 or 4 voice chord in root position |
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The sound of the chords |
The constitutive intervals of the chords such as the perfect and imperfect consonances, and the dissonances |
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The chord progressions |
The direct and contrary motions between the notes of two consecutive chords |
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Harmony |
An understanding of musical classical harmony using non harmonic notes |
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The harmonic voices |
Poisition of the four basic voices of harmony including the bass, tenor, alto and soprano |
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The music structures |
Description of the five main sections of a piece : the introduction, exposition, development, recapitulation and coda |
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The "sonata" structure |
Buiding a classical sonata structure including an introduction, an exposition, a development, a recapitulation and a coda |
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The jazz chords |
Structure of the six basic jazz chords including the major 7th, the minor 7th.. |
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